If you’re not already following us on Twitter, here’s a handy round up of the week’s main news stories.
• In NYC, the creditors are stacking up for Gordon Ramsay; coincidentally, a US writer reports on a filming of his Kitchen Nightmares programme where “everything was faked”.
• Top steakhouse Goodman secures 11 Old Jewry site for City outpost.
• Caprice group to open a deli/diner in Mayfair’s mega-posh Mount Street soon, and in the longer term plans an hotel next to the Ivy.
• It seems that Jason Atherton’s newcomer – first exclusively revealed by Harden’s on Twitter – is to be called Pollen Street Social.
• After a short stint at caterers Company of Cooks, ex-Ramsay suprema Gillian Thomson becomes “special advisor” to a firm which specialises in “hospitality cleaning”.
• Polpo is to have an offshoot, also in Soho, this summer – Spuntino.
• Harden's new iPhone app peaks in number 4 position for sales in the Lifestyle section of the iStore (behind Jamie, Nigella and, er, the Kama Sutra.)
• Alan Yau is to leave London for HK later this year, from where he plans world domination. He’s to open a high-end Chinese and Turkish establishments here before he goes.
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