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The Thai food and ingredient expert on his new Plaza Khao Gaeng restaurant in Borough Yards, his plans for more restaurants that serve Thai food without compromise and why he doesn’t make his own curry paste.
The executive head chef at York hotel The Grand on cutting his teeth in Malta, working with Marco and Gordon, and his signature ‘nosotto’ - a risotto without rice.
Nokz Majozi has joined modern British restaurant Fallow as its new chef in residence, following her departure from The Pie Room at Rosewood London Hotel.
After two decades and no fewer than nine pub projects including The Crown at Burchetts Green and The Dewdrop Inn, chef and publican Simon Bonwick is back with another bohemian Berkshire venture.
From protein-packed dishes and premium seafood to super posh sandwiches, here’s what happened in 2025’s restaurant scene.
Stephen Harris masters classic, nostalgic home cooking in his latest book.
The head chef of Kentish Town gastropub The Parakeet on Heinz Reitbauer, his Vitamix, and why chefs who want to move too quickly never make it.
Clare Smyth’s Oncore restaurant, located within the Crown Sydney resort and casino complex, will close early next year after a four-year run.
A 32-day aged Irish angus striploin that is available in Lidl in Ireland has been named as the World’s Best Steak following the results of the 2025 World Steak Challenge.
Llandudno fine dining restaurant The Goat has named Jason Hughes as its new head chef.
Pub company Marston’s has opened what is being billed as the UK’s first commercially led hospitality academy inside a women’s prison.
Lee Murdoch has been named as executive chef at St Andrews’ boutique five-star hotel Seaton House.
Phil Kearsey has been appointed executive chef at Michelin-starred Morston Hall in Norfolk following the departure of Galton Blackiston.
The newly-appointed Lima head chef on pairing fried chicken with White Russians, good bread, and a love of frozen lasagne from gas stations.
Chef James Tanner has been involved in a ‘horrific’ accident that led to him needing five hours of surgery.
Former The Man Behind The Curtain chef Michael O’Hare is returning to the industry after over a year out with a new Leeds restaurant.
Anaïs Ca Dao van Manen’s new book is a comprehensive and fascinating delve into one of Asia’s great cuisines.
Chef Ardy Ferguson has been crowned the winner of S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition 2024-25.
After serving time in prison for drug offences, South London-born chef and Instagram star Nathaniel Mortley wants Caribbean food to get the respect it deserves.
Bloomsbury has responded to claims from a deli chain owner that its use of the word ‘Sabzi’ in a recently published cookbook written by Yasmin Khan infringes her intellectual property rights.
Trinity chef Adam Byatt is teaming up with contract caterer BM Caterers to make his sandwich concept Outside a permanent fixture.
The head chef of London’s Sabine Rooftop Bar on Clare Smyth, gold leaf and wanting to be a food hygiene inspector.
Twenty chefs including Angelo Sato, Kim Ratcharoen, John Chantarasak, Sujan Sarkar, John Williams, and Adam Byatt have been confirmed as cooking at next year’s Northcote Obsession.
Cardiff-based chef Tom Simmons has revealed more details about his upcoming project at Park House.
Launched in 2016 in SoHo, Jess Shadbolt’s Italy and France inspired King restaurant remains one of the hottest tickets in Manhattan.
The head chef at Lake District hotel and restaurant The Forest Side on Michael Wignall, classic foundations and pairing stilton with Stella.
Andrew Turvil’s book gives a fast-paced and fascinating insight into the 1990s restaurant revolution.
The former Nobu executive chef and creator of Bone Daddies has gone all out with one of London’s most striking restaurant launches in years that pays homage to the childhood home of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Former Gilpin Lodge head chef Mike Shaw has been appointed chef patron at top Lancashire gastropub The Freemasons at Wiswell.
Some of the UK’s top chefs including Jason Atherton, Andy Beynon and Alex Bond will swap their aprons for boxing gloves early next year to raise funds for better food education.
Chefs Kyu Jeong Jeon and Duncan Robertson are breaking new ground in Redland with their fiercely authentic Korean restaurant Dongnae.
The head chef and co-founder at Marjorie’s in Soho on and his admiration for Clare Smyth and the Big Mac.
This month’s key personnel changes in hospitality.
With his elevated fast food brand Heard, chef Jordan Bailey is out to prove there’s space for a multi-site concept that reimagines the humble burger with a fine dining philosophy.
The co-founder of new London live-fire restaurant Nela on his penchant for a late-night kebab and never having received a bad review for his cooking.
Keira Carolan from Simon Rogan’s Windermere restaurant Henrock has been named the Craft Guild of Chefs’ Young National Chef of the Year.
Danny Young from The Torridon in the Scottish Highlands has been named as this year’s UK National Chef of the Year.
LIMA has appointed Diego Recarte as head chef as the Peruvian restaurant embarks on a new chapter.
Galway international symposium Food on the Edge has announced its speakers for 2025.
The Great British Menu star is relaunching her sellout story-driven restaurant concept within a former prison that’s also home to a distillery.
North Kent Coast-based chef Billy Stock will open a pub and dining room with his partner, Ellie Topham, later this year.
The executive chef and co-founder of Restaurant St. Barts and Nest in London on why tasting menus trump à la carte, his love of pizza, and why truffle is overrated.
As The Fat Duck celebrates its 30th anniversary, its founder reflects on the huge pressure behind retaining creative momentum, its continued reinvention, and a lightbulb moment about what gastronomy really means.
Gizzi Erskine is returning to London’s Mare Street Market as chef creative director, developing ‘revitalised’ menus across both its sites and launching a new health concept.
The chef behind acclaimed East London restaurant Da Terra has opened a Hove restaurant that balances ambition and accessibility.
Former Native chef Ivan Tisdall-Downes will launch a restaurant in Hackney later this year.
Freelance chef Oliver McGeorge has been named the new UK candidate for the Bocuse d’Or following a cook-off at the University of West London earlier this week.
Nokz Majozi has announced her departure from Rosewood London hotel after 11 years.
Former The Barbary and Ottolenghi chef Daniel Alt has been named head chef at soon-to-launch Canary Wharf Turkish restaurant Nora.
The head chef at Peckham restaurant Hausu on jalapeno poppers, Gordon Ramsay and the perils of after-work drinks.