WHO? - Financial director Suzanne Eske (ex Gruppo) and partner Toby Gawin introduce British restaurant, Stanza, to the Teatro site. Head chef is Stuart Tattersall, formerly of the Match Group and Brasserie 44 in Leeds. Members' club Teatro ...
In the spirit of optimism that informs the British attitude to the weather, this Spring's fine conditions lead me to expect a hot summer. As I write, we are told that the oak tree budding before the ash means a dry summer – so the ...
Nottingham has had a bit of, some might say, unfair hype for being a city that likes a drink. But there's no denying that in the last five years its restaurant scene, greatly helped by the ever-evolving Nottingham Restaurant Awards, has come on ...
Jason Atherton is to open a Maze Grill next door, and a new Maze in Prague It's going to be a busy year for Jason Atherton, Executive Chef of Gordon Ramsay Holdings' Maze in London's Mayfair. Atherton is to oversee the opening of a Maze...
Gruesome nightmare or interesting talking point? Welcome to Living Tables When the table appears to be dressed as Marilyn Monroe and hands you a vol-auvent, it's probably time to slow down on the banana daiquiris. And when the watermelon in the ...
The ‘gastropub' – everybody's doing it but Daniel Clifford's doing it in Essex There's been an embarrassment of riches on the ‘gastropub' scene of late, with Gordon Ramsay's Narrow and Nigel Haworth's ...
Warner brothers Ben and Hugo predict great things for Benugo with the arrival of their first restaurant on London's Southbank Ben and Hugo Warner, owners of 18 Benugo café delis, have just launched their first restaurant venture, the ...
Dipna Anand's low cholesterol Punjabi cuisine has put her at the top of her class When Dipna Anand set about putting her restaurateur father Gulu Anand on a diet, she had her work cut out. Gulu, after all, is a man so stubborn that on the night ...
Jessica’s head chef leaves to pursue dream of opening own restaurant Glynn Purnell, Head Chef of Michelin-starred restaurant Jessica's in Edgbaston, Birmingham, is leaving the restaurant to open his own restaurant this summer. Purnell's .
Barrogill, the first North Highland blend, is selected by Prince Charles himself Watercolours, children's books, organic farming, ideal village building, faith defending, explaining to ignorant pharmacists and doctors how narrow-minded they are ...
The Walnut Tree Inn in Abergavenny has been sold after being closed in March ;pending some re-organisation;. Franco and Ann Taruschio founded the former Michelin-starred restaurant 30 years ago with recent owner Francesco Mattioli taking ...
The Anchor & Hope team arrive in the West End with a promising Covent Garden sequel When the Anchor & Hope opened in 2003, behind Waterloo Station in The Cut, many people thought it was an odd location to open a pub serving good quality food....
Loch Fyne Restaurants has bought a site in Midhurst, West Sussex which it plans to open in June. The seafood restaurant is opening on the historic town's high street in a 17th Century building. The current restaurant has 70 covers as well as a ...
Eastern European businessmen to launch restaurant for the Russian elite The site which used to house the Pourcel brothers' fine dining French restaurant W'Sens in St James's, London, has been bought by three Eastern European businessmen...
Barbara Hine and her French husband Denis bought the Corse Lawn House in Gloucestershire in 1978 and ran it until Denis's death in 2005. Baba continues to run the hotel en famille with her son Giles. The lovely Queen Anne house has an elegant ...
Sherry is coming out of its culinary closet, and stepping out for food and wine matching The pairing of sherry with food puts one in mind of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Katharine Hepburn's pithy remark that ;He gave her class. She ...
Highlights from the globally renowned design fair The 46th annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile – the world's leading design fair – took place in Milan at the end of April, and was attended by an incredible 1,500 exhibitors from ...
WHO? | Les Amis de Brula celebrate 10 years of business success, with the opening of a third South West London restaurant, La Saveur in East Sheen. Managing Director Lawrence Hartley, previously of The Ivy, and Chef Patron Bruce Duckett, formerly of ..
Keeping it in the family with good ingredients and wholesome cooking at Magdalen When I meet Roger Faulks at Magdalen in Southwark, it's clear I'm talking to a happy man. And deservedly so – the restaurant he owns with his son, Head ...
Claude Bosi bids for London site, Murchison to move on vacated Hibiscus: Claude Bosi has put in an offer on a site on London's Maddox Street W1 and hopes to move his two Michelin-starred Hibiscus restaurant, currently based in Ludlow, into the ...
Head Chef of French bistro Racine in London's South Kensington, Chris Hanley, has left to help set up a model for a chain of French brasseries. Hanley is entering into a partnership with an unnamed company and would only say, ;It's a new ...
Acclaimed French Chef and Restaurateur Alain Ducasse has opened Rech seafood restaurant in Paris. The restaurant, named after Albert Rech who opened a café/restaurant there in 1925, became an institution and has been restored to its former Art .
For fans of sous-vide, the Gastrovac could represent the logical next step. Self-confessed technophile Simon Rogan of LEnclume tried it for himself I first heard about the Gastrovac from visits to food conferences, like Fusion in Madrid, and I ...
;Last year, the Brewers Association of Japan held a drinks tasting at the Japanese embassy in London. I went with our Bar Manager and we came across this,; says Ayako Watanabe, Managing Director of Saki Bar and Food Emporium in Smithfield, ...
The days when Portugal was known only for fortified wines, fizzy pinks and tannic reds that remained undrinkable for years are long gone. It shares, with Italy, the blessing – and handicap – of a variety of grapes that, mostly, no one ...
Selected by the largest, most internationally diverse panel yet, with 22 voting regions worldwide, Restaurant magazine presents the list everyone's been waiting for...The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants How we did it The academy system of voting that...
Don't think we're going all Martha Stewart on you, but we can't help rejoicing that scented candles are making the crossover from the domestic to the restaurant interior. They aren't for the table – a strong fragrance isn't ..
Roka roller to introduce Riviera institution to London Arjun Waney, co-founder of highly acclaimed Japanese restaurant brands Zuma and Roka, has obtained the franchise to the La Petite Maison brand in Nice and plans to open two London sites in the ...
‘World's Best Cream Puffs' have landed in the UK – be afraid, be very afraid Those of you unwilling to welcome a potentially addictive custard-filled pastry into your life, look away now, because Beard Papa's cream puffs have ..
The boutique hotel and restaurant aiming to claim back the East Sussex town from the blue rinse brigade At first, Rye might not sound like the place for a boutique hotel with a fashionable restaurant. The East Sussex town may be associated, in the ...
Is it just a fizz? The Champagne houses clearly think not as production is stepped up to meet popular demand The growth in sales of pink wines over the past few years has been exceptional. Rosé Champagne has been particularly successful, with ..
Tokyo opening marks the first of many restaurants planned to ‘inject something different' into the Japanese dining scene D&D London has opened its first restaurant in Japan, called Botanica, in partnership with Japanese restaurant group ...
First-timer chooses new development area to open ambitious 100-cover Indian With neighbouring Newcastle currently undergoing something of a culinary renaissance, Gateshead is to welcome the first major restaurant investment to its developing Quayside...
Ain't nothing cheesy about these pizzas The Spiel: ;Bringing an authentic American experience into downtown Notting Hill.; Which means: The Mulberry team uses water that has been filtered and tested to match New York water samples, ...
Jeffrey Chodorow’s back in town and his latest offering is sure to make waves Life is never boring with Jeffrey Chodorow around. Whenever his global restaurant group, China Grill Management, opens something new there's always a bit of ...
Cape Town Fish Market sets global expansion programme in motion with an opening in the heart of London's West End Restaurant company Cape Town Fish Market is opening its first branch outside South Africa in central London. It has snapped up a ...
A Michelin star-winning chef/proprietor has been lured back into the kitchen after a three-year career break. Phil Storey gained a star at the Old Chesil Rectory restaurant in Winchester in 2000 and retained it until selling up in 2004. He then left ..
Club 31 was a Spanish Capital classic, but its new redesign has brought it bang up to date Stepping into Club 31, a culinary monument beloved of the Madrileños, you feel temporarily flung back to 1950s New York, to the days when women wore ...
From mine to wine, how a military munitions dump became the Wiltshire-based Octavian cellar It's the start of the 20th Century, you've quarried Bath stone and made a big hole, what to do with it now? One old mine in Corsham, Wiltshire, ...
At this time of year, tasting opportunities are almost limitless so generalised tastings, such as the SITT (Specialist Independent Trade Tastings) and FUOR (France Under One Roof), are a very efficient way to taste a huge variety of wines, many ...
The Geordie chef who sold his flat and his car to risk it all on his own take on modern British cooking Looking at chef/owner Chris Slaughter, with his curly hair, as he bounces enthusiastically around the Grainger Rooms bar to the strains of Bob ...
There's much talk of major refurbishments and openings. What goes unsaid is how few people can afford a wholesale design job. Take the case of Morgan Meunier, Chef Patron of Morgan M in Islington. When he set up three years ago, he did everything...
Following its Brighton success, Pintxo People is coming to London Pintxo People is about to lose its X-factor, or rather, its ‘tx' factor. The Brighton tapas restaurant isn't jettisoning the je ne sais quoi that has made it successful, ..
We tasted nine variations on the theme Porter, apparently, was first drunk in London in the 1730s and became very popular in Britain and Ireland. It declined in popularity in Britain with the advent of pale ales, but continued to grow in popularity ...
Just awarded its first Michelin Star, Roger and Sue Jones' The Harrow at Little Bedwyn in Wiltshire is also known for its extensive wine list. The 900-bin list, ranging in price from £18 to £900, is Roger's, but since he can't .
‘Great dining experience' transported from Hoxton to Harrogate The owners of the Hoxton Grille in east London are planning to open their second Grille closer to their roots in Harrogate in the North-East. Restaurateurs Simon Wright and John .
‘English bistro' duo set sail for Covent Garden Two of the owners of the much feted gastropub The Anchor & Hope in London SE1 are opening a restaurant in Covent Garden, with Tom Norrington-Davies as Head Chef. Great Queen Street, in the ...
Bored? Well, why not try suspending deadly weapons above your delicate skull? Going out for dinner can be so dull. You sit down, you order, you eat and you go. Blah, blah, blah… So how does adding a little frisson sound? Perhaps like the ...
Michael Deane's expansion of his restaurant empire continues apace with his signing on a new site at the Outlet retail complex in Banbridge, County Down. The standalone glass unit within the £70million development will be ...
The North-Eastern Chef-restaurateur is to open three restaurants in the next year, starting in Fenwick in March North-Eastern Chef-Restaurateur Terry Laybourne is opening a Café 21 restaurant in Fenwick department store at the beginning of ...
