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Jamie Oliver's 'fire-based' restaurant Barbecoa evacuated after blaze Around 150 people have been evacuated from a shopping centre after a fire at Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa restaurant in London.  Four fire engines and more than 20 firefighters tackled the blaze at the eaterie near St Paul's Cathedral, which bills itself on its website as "a celebration of fire-based cooking". Read more from The Guardian  

Pub grub: Is pub food good enough?

Once the only food in pubs was peanuts or pork scratchings.  Pub grub has now dramatically changed - but does it need to improve further? Read more from BBC Food   Horse meat found in food served at Dartmoor Prison TRACES of horse meat have been found in meat intended for prisoners at HMP Dartmoor. A batch of raw frozen minced beef was found to contain less than one per cent of the banned meat. Read more from This is Plymouth        
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Editor 25th September 2013

Daily news round up: our selection of food and chef news from the world's press