JKS Restaurants presents ‘The Women Who Make Us’
JKS, the London-based group behind Gymkhana, Bao, Hoppers and Berenjak, will host an afternoon of conversation on advancing gender equality at the Barbican Centre on Monday 10 March. ‘The Women Who Make Us’ will bring together individuals from across the hospitality industry and beyond with a programme of panels and workshops reflecting on this year’s theme: ‘accelerate action’. The afternoon will kick off with an introduction from JKS co-founder and chief people officer Sunaina Sethi, followed by a discussion on the perfectionism trap and self-advocacy from leadership coach Melissa Bruno. Next, a group of Gen Z women from across the JKS business will share perspectives on the industry, followed by a panel of South Asian women discussing overcoming stereotypes to build their careers in the creative industries. Keynote speaker Ayesha Ofori will then share a practical guide on how to start investing.
Tickets are priced at £25 and can be purchased via the link here. All proceeds will go to Smart Works.
The Wolseley Hospitality Group limited-edition menus
The Wolseley Hospitality Group (TWHG) has unveiled a series of limited-edition dishes and cocktails curated exclusively by its female chefs and bar teams in celebration of International Women’s Day. Available until 9 March across TWHG London estate, the initiative is part of a collaboration with Women for Women International with £1 for every dish or cocktail sold being donated to the charity. Menu items include red velvet cake by The Wolseley’s Leila Mostafavi; Yorkshire rhubarb mille-feuille by The Wolseley City’s Greysha Yanez and Kate Norman; and salmon wellington with prosecco cream sauce and roe caviar by Fischer’s Sajina Shrestha. Limited-edition cocktails include Mama Morton, devised by Bar Americain’s bar manager Angele Grinda; and the Pink Lady by Manzi’s Kateryna Hetmanska.
For further details or to book, click here.
LOR Festival
The first-ever Ladies of Restaurants (LOR) Festival will take place on 10 March at the Town Hall Hotel in London’s Bethnal Green, featuring panels and workshops led by some of the most prominent voices in the industry. Sessions confirmed include a talk by Dara Klein (Tiella) and Zoe Paskin (Studio Paskin) on launching a business; journalists Jimi Famurewa and Hannah Crosbie on the power of the press; and industry leadership coach Madeleine Geach on leading with purpose.
Tickets are priced at £100 and can be purchased via the link here.
Firebird x Restaurant de Kas menu collaboration
Building on the success of their ‘Firebird & Friends’ series, London-based restaurateurs Anna Dolgushina and Madina Kazhimova will be bringing Savannah Hagendijk, head chef at Amsterdam’s Restaurant de Kas, to the capital for her first ever international pop-up on Saturday 8 March. Hagendijk will be designing an exclusive five-course menu featuring signature dishes from De Kas with influences from Firebird’s flame-kissed cookery, using produce grown from the restaurant’s greenhouse in Amsterdam. Dishes will include beetroots roasted on Firebird’s grill served with blood orange and kosho hollandaise; a yakitori-style skewer of mussel and pumpkin with kumquat and burned mussel aioli; and a braised pork cheek with green garlic, nduja and a buckwheat and salted lemon granola.
For further details or to book, click here.
The Ivy’s private dining room donation scheme
The Ivy Collection has announced that each month for the rest of 2025 it will be donating private dining space to a female-led business to use for growth and development. The move comes following a report from the Government’s Invest In Women Taskforce, which found that in the first half of 2024 only 1.8% of equity capital went to fully female-founded businesses. The private dining room donation initiative seeks to tangibly help support female-led businesses by providing space and resources, which they can use how they see fit, whether that is hosting business meetings, team planning sessions or networking events.
To apply for The Ivy Collection’s private dining room donation initiative, female-led business should apply via the online form here by 11:59PM on Friday 21 March 2025.