Jerusalem by Ottolenghi and Tamimi is excellent, as is the Polpo cookbook.
For classics, River Cafe or Moro are hard to beat.
I contend Larousse is smug, blokey bookshelf willy-wave. It's like having a leather bound version of the encylopedia Brittanica ... useful once or twice a century when google is down, but about as inspiring as a packet of fish fingers. #couldntaffordLarousse
It's always in the cheap book shops, I bought my very posh boxed version for ~£15... Don't use it much as I've gone Asian now... Western food is shit apart from BBQ... And Italian... And Spanish... And Greek... And Portuguese...
Jerusalem by Ottolenghi and Tamimi is excellent, as is the Polpo cookbook.
For classics, River Cafe or Moro are hard to beat.
I contend Larousse is smug, blokey bookshelf willy-wave. It's like having a leather bound version of the encylopedia Brittanica ... useful once or twice a century when google is down, but about as inspiring as a packet of fish fingers. #couldntaffordLarousse