Lively Nice venue with soul I start to like for the food there? (8,7)

I believe the answer is:

nouvelle cuisine

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'the food there?' is the definition.
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'lively nice venue with soul i start to like' is the wordplay.
'lively' indicates anagramming the letters (letters get livened up or moved around).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'start to' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'like' is 'l'.
'nice'+'venue'+'soul'+'i'+'l'='nicevenuesoulil'
'nicevenuesoulil' is an anagram of 'NOUVELLE-CUISINE'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for nouvelle cuisine that I've seen before include "fresh food" , "Not much to down" , "light refreshment" , "way of cooking" , "foodie style" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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