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Barworks founder Marc Francis-Baum is to reopen The Peasant in Clerkenwell as George & Dragon in collaboration with Tom Brown and Brad Carter’s Island restaurant.
Endo Kazutoshi has revealed further details of his upcoming omakase restaurant and listening bar at the former The Five Fields site in Chelsea.
Joe Haynes, Ben Butterworth and Tom Hurst have revealed more details about their forthcoming follow-up to their Farringdon restaurant Cloth.
Luxury Hampshire country house hotel Heckfield Place has launched a new bar ‘inspired by the convivial atmosphere of a traditional pub’.
Fulham Football Club has partnered with chef Adam Byatt to launch fine-dining offer ‘Constance on Matchdays’.
Paul Sarlas is set to open a new all-day restaurant and bar Honeyshade above the Central Park Hotel in Bayswater next month.
Cornwall-based seafood specialist Nathan Outlaw is teaming up with Stellar Hospitality Group to launch a coastal brasserie and boutique hotel in Poole, Dorset.
Partners and wine experts Jonathan Heredia and Isla Mosquera have launched a wine bar and bistro on Leith’s waterfront.
Scott Hallsworth’s Freak Scene restaurant in Balham will close next week to make way for the return of his more family-friendly pan-Asian restaurant concept Joe’s Oriental Diner.
Fallow owners James Robson, Jack Croft and Will Murray have acquired the business and assets operating the OXO Tower Restaurant.
Bristol and Birmingham-based steakhouse group Cow & Sow will open a farm shop and restaurant later this year.
Johnny Mill has finally opened his counter restaurant Sǣl almost exactly a year after its scheduled launch.
Franco’s, the Italian restaurant on Jermyn Street, will open its redesigned bar on 1 September.
Former Pasta Slut chef Hayley Meredith is to permanently open her Sicilian-inspired restaurant MACCHINA within wine shop Hometipple in Walthamstow, following an eight-month kitchen residency.
The sommelier at Southwark restaurant Pyro on Christine Parkinson, Santorini’s Hatzidakis Winery and Clos St Hune Riesling Trimbach 2008.
A new Italian all-day dining concept combining a restaurant, café, and cocktail bar is set to open at The Webster Covent Garden this autumn.
The owner of St James’s hotel The Stafford and Fitzrovia restaurant Norma has been hit with a winding-up petition by HMRC.
Carole Bryon has launched a second Lady of the Grapes restaurant following the success of her debut site in Covent Garden.
Island, the London restaurant from chefs Tom Brown and Brad Carter, is leaving its King’s Cross site after less than a year.
Public House Group will open The Horses on Ray Street, Clerkenwell, this September.
Belgravia pub and Basque restaurant Prince Arthur will move to Chelsea in September, where it will reopen as a restaurant with a late-night music and cocktail bar.
This month’s round up of job moves includes a new research and development chef for Hakkasan and a new head chef for top Edinburgh restaurant Number One.
London-centric wine bar group Vagabond has acquired the former Browns Brasserie site in Brighton’s The Lanes area for its second regional location.
Monaco-born restaurant concept Beefbar will launch a flagship UK location within Broadwick Soho’s Dear Jackie restaurant next month.
The future of London group Bodean’s BBQ is in doubt following the closure of all three of its remaining locations.
Mark Abbott has joined Cambridge restaurant Margaret’s as its new executive chef.
Tom Sellers has assembled a heavyweight team for MOR, his new seafood restaurant at Cornwall’s Carbis Bay Estate.
The Prezzo owner’s recent purchase of Riding House Café group is another feather in the cap for the growing restaurant group. But can it continue the entrepreneurial spirit of the all-day brand?
Nieves Barragán Mohacho is opening a new private dining and events space at her Michelin-starred Shoreditch restaurant Legado.
Gareth Ward’s two-Michelin starred restaurant Ynyshir has once again achieved a five-star food hygiene rating following a new inspection.
St James’s restaurant Quaglino’s will reopen this October nearly a century after it was founded, following a major restoration.
The Cumberland Hotel in Marble Arch has made two senior culinary appointments across The Cumberland and Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen venues.
Adriana Cavita is to relaunch her Mexican restaurant Cavita in Marylebone this October.
Michelin-starred restaurant Mark Poynton at Caistor Hall is closing following the departure of its chef patron.
The French-born head sommelier at Berkhamsted farm-to-table restaurant WILD on training at Hôtel de Meurice, Screaming Eagle and prioritising quality over geography.
Boutique hotel Chateau Denmark has permanently closed its doors as of yesterday (4 August), bringing to an end its four-year run on London’s Denmark Street.
Harts Group will launch an ‘exciting new project’ this autumn in London’s Borough.
Portuguese mini-group Bar Douro is opening its third restaurant this autumn on the site of the soon-to-close 10 Greek Street.
Mark Poynton has stepped down from his position as chef-patron at Mark Poynton at Caistor Hall after four-and-a-half years.
Anthony Demetre has closed his 45-cover vermouth bar and restaurant in London’s Coal Drops Yard after eight years.
The long-awaited counter restaurant from Jonny Mills and the latest venture from the husband- and wife-duo behind The Waterhouse Project are among this month’s key openings.
Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is back in the kitchen, leading a three-person team with outsized ambitions at Gareth Ward and Amelia Eiriksson’s tiny Gwen restaurant in Machynlleth.
The private chef and MasterChef: The Professionals finalist on reopening Notting Hill’s Cépages, his move to London, and how MasterChef helped shape his career.
Open Restaurant Group has acquired Hispi from Gary Usher’s Elite Bistros.
Luxury farm hotel Outbuildings Dorset has opened an adults-only restaurant led by former The Ledbury chef Marcus Wilcox, marking the first time its dining experience has been made available to the public.
University College Birmingham (UCB) has bought the former The Cube Hotel and Marco Pierre White restaurant as part of a £15m hospitality investment programme.
The South African-born but Birmingham-raised head sommelier at Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall on ‘dry wines’, Viúva Gomes and Burgundy expert Jasper Morris.
Siblings Agastya and Varuna Singh will make their restaurant debut later this year with a European restaurant in London’s Covent Garden inspired by Japanese techniques and hospitality.
James and Maria Close have revealed further details about their upcoming signature restaurant at County Durham luxury resort Rockliffe ahead of its September opening.
Duda Diner, the Malaysian family-style pop-up restaurant founded by Hakeem and Zura Ahmad, will launch at boutique hotel The Pilgrm in Paddington this September.