If you’re not already following us on Twitter, here’s a handy round up of the weeks main news stories.
• Grosvenor House’s Bord’Eaux closes
• In rather odd brand extension, MPW opens Swan at Aughton – gastro-inn near a market town 12 miles N of Liverpool.
• London Restaurant Barmometer figures suggest some optimism despite a pretty grim quarter.
• High-end Mexican chain Cantina Lardeo to open 220-seater in Covent Garden this summer.
• Rome’s Calandrino – offshoot of three-Michelin-star restaurant – coming to Sloane Square [presumably Oriel site] by end of summer
• Cipriani, Mayfair Eurotrash-haunt, must change name, rules appeal court, after “ lear" trademark infringement.
• Calorie-Nazis coming to a restaurant near you? SNP contemplates restaurant portion control N. of Border.
• Top chefs say celeb-chef culture is storing up problems for future, attracting recruits with unrealistic expectations
• Ramsay’s new (non-Wareing) Pétrus opens at 1 Kinnerton St SW1 on 29 Mar. Booking from 1 Mar on 020 7592 1609.
• www.gessler.pl have taken over the Dacquise site in South Kensington
• Harden's launches new BlackBerry app. Try it now for free!
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