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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.

• Tom Aikens's Tom’s Kitchen to open at Somerset House, in place of Admiralty

• The Wolseley team (Messrs Corbin and King) aim to open hotel in ’30s ‘Avis Building’, near Selfridges, with restaurant, by 2012… but it seems that their Covent Garden/Theatre Museum project is not to come to pass

• Tough Up North? NW-based Individual Restaurant Co (Piccolino, Zinc etc) to look for richer pickings by concentrating Down South

• Papillon (Brompton Cross) has fluttered its last. The same owners apparently plan an Italian venture on the same site.

• London Restaurant Festival announces its plans for 2010

• Is Giorgio Locatelli to open a number two restaurant at a new St Pancras Hotel? Well, it has been officially denied…

• Manchester Confidential hails Thomas – a new restaurant in the trendy Northern Quarter – as a 'winner'… something that doesn’t happen very often in that city

• Why people are excited about Pierre Koffmann’s return to Knightsbridge… and why success is no foregone conclusion

In the media.....

• The Indie considers the state of British cheese More contentious than you might think.

• Why women find it harder to lose weight by exercise than men (NYT)

• Does world-famous wine authority Robert Parker really taste 'blind', as he claims? (Seems to us that the key rule of criticism is to do what you say you do.)

Home news...

• We review Vicino in Parson’s Green Still a good place, just like when it was called De Cecco…

• We review two places in Soho where you can lunch for a tenner… for two.

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