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News Stories of the Week

If you’re not already following us on Twitter, here’s a handy round up of the week’s main news stories.

• Gordon Ramsay goes to Doha, but launches restaurants in London (Pétrus) and Melbourne (Maze) in same week

• Jason Atherton announces he is to leave Maze (London) to set up his own restaurant, leaving Angela Hartnett as the Ramsay empire’s only lieutenant with real ‘profile’

• Rousillon executive chef Alexis Gauthier is to take over the Lindsay House site in Soho (formerly associated with Richard Corrigan) in May

• Lakeland-based chef Simon Rogan is to open a restaurant in the West End this summer, at a location shortly to be announced

• St James’s Japanese Sake No Hana is to re-open shortly, with a more accessible menu, lower prices and some new décor

• Covent Garden success story Terroirs is to open an East End offshoot, near Columbia Road, some time this summer

• Summerhouse, a restaurant, is to 'pop up' next month for six months of, er, summer on Maida Vale canal bank.

And in the media.....

• A Guardian blog posting muses at some length on the trend to informality in restaurants.

• Is Le Fooding more than a feeling? The New Yorker investigates the French food movement

• The Englishman who transformed the way America eats. (No not Jamie.) NYT reviews the biography of Fred Harvey

Home news.....

• We review Gordon Ramsay’s new Pétrus

• We review of Guerrilla Burgers, an offshoot of Giraffe, near Selfridges

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