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Vernes Restaurant and Tea Rooms on the riverside of the Cotswold's Bourton-on-the- Water has been sold for an undisclosed sum after offers in the region of £89,950 were sought for the new lease. The stone property includes a 60-cover ...
Who is he? Co-owner, with Caroline Jones of fi ve pubs serving food under the Jobo Developments company. Their fi rst, The Birdcage, opened in Stoke Newington in 2001 and they have opened nearly one a year since, most recently The Three Crowns, also ..
While most restaurants feverishly run to stand still, some travel at a more sedate pace and keep well ahead of the field Oversized pepper mills, napkins folded like sail boats, dessert trolleys and lacy doilies… welcome to the retro world of ...
What is it? The glitzy Art Deco-style jewel in the crown of Cardiff-based restaurant group Le Monde, which includes La Brasserie, Shampers and, most recently, Le Monde Bristol. Who owns it? It all started with Galician-style steak restaurant ...
The highs and lows of energy costs vs energy savings, and some balancing incentives With energy prices at an all-time high, it is becoming increasingly important for restaurants to take a closer look at their energy-saving methods and technologies. ...
How one restaurant has set the record straight A libel verdict in the Northern Ireland High Court earlier this month may help to give reviewers pause for thought and affronted restaurateurs greater confidence in setting the record straight. In August .
Tragus, owned by Blackstone, has bought Ma Potters restaurant company, which includes the Ma Potters Bar Restaurant and Chargrill brands, for £14.15m. The 16 UK sites are predominantly in shopping centres and have an average of 100 covers per ...
Meanwhile, property agents Colliers Robert Barry orchestrated the sale of The Daffodil restaurant in Cheltenham. The brasserie-style venue, which used to be an Art Deco cinema, has been bought by Mark Stephens who was responsible for the site's ...
Why the Boisdale has decided to bottle its very own series of limited edition single malts I felt like I had finally made it. To my right was sitting a beautiful columnist from Wallpaper, to my left was the editor of Whisky Magazine. Other guests ...
What the team behind Lord's media centre did for the new-look Scott's Scott's, London's classic seafood restaurant and oyster bar, was afforded a rapturous welcome back just before Christmas, when it reopened after just under three ...
Collaboration breaks down, but another site is in his sights Alan Yau, owner of the UK's Hakkasan and Yauatcha in London, is no longer to open a Chinese restaurant – Park Chinois – at hotelier Ian Schrager's New Gramercy Park ...
The division of the wine world into ‘Old' and ‘New' is useful. New World wines can come from almost anywhere outside Europe, but around the margins is room for ambiguity. Take Georgia, it's not Europe, it claims 5,000 years of .
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 ...
Eternal sunshine is always on our minds these days, whether it's concern about climate change or dreaming about dining alfresco – but it's where you sit that counts If there's one benefit to global warming, it may be that this ...
What is it? A Leeds-institution, this Italian has seen three new looks and homes since 1974. Who owns it? Oliver Teodorani set up the original Bibis in Mill Hill in partnership with Dino Aristotelous. He opened a second Bibis in York in 1979 (sold in .
Alex Renton wrestles with the notion of a truly green restaurant and empathises with Pizza Express workers My new restaurant idea is the Carbonara Neutral: at this serious-minded neighbourhood ‘organo-bistro', electricity will be generated ..
London Brasseries, the company set up founder Andrew Bonnell, former Managing Director of Tootsies, is to open its third site in as many months, at the Gunwharf Quays' Land Securities £200m mixed-use development on Portsmouth Harbour ...
Exuding risotto dishes to make you weep The Spiel: ;Slow food, cooked fast.; Which means? Risotto is cooked with a red wine, pancetta, fi sh stock or vegetable base and a choice of fi sh, meat and vegetables. Large batches are cooked up and ...
After the Black Pig and St Ervan, the Cornish Michelin star returns to the stove with a signature restaurant in Fowey With this, the third Cornish restaurant to showcase his talent in under four years, you could be forgiven for thinking Nathan Outlaw .
What is it? The longest-standing French restaurant in London, dating back to the early 40s when Charles de Gaulle came here during the war. Who owns it? Tricolor-flying, moustache-twizzling, 65-year-old Alain Lhermitte . The dashing Frenchman arrived .
It's all about you – but remember, when it comes to effective CVs and applications, it's what potential employers want to see that counts When a busy manager receives hundreds of applications for a single position on their staff, very ...