If you’re not already following us on Twitter, here’s a handy round up of the week’s main news stories.
• The Arbutus boys christen their forthcoming (Sep) 150-seat Covent Garden brasserie Les Deux Salons
• The Russians are coming! An operator with FORTY-SEVEN Moscow restaurant takes ex-Yau site near Ritz
• Jose Pizarro, chef behind the growth of the Brindisa tapas empire, leaves to set up – what we don't yet know – on his own.
• A BBC Good Food survey claims that veggie dishes are now more popular than meat
• Gordon Ramsay looks to set up in the forthcoming New Change development in the City, cheek-by-jowl with Jamie’s new BBQ concept
• Keith McNally denies suggestions that he‘s agreed for an offshoot of Balthazar (SoHo) to be transplanted to Richard Caring’s site in Covent Garden
In the media...
• A brilliant overview of what they do right in NYC restaurants, and we do wrong in London, by Rusell Norman (of Soho’s Polpo)
• Restaurant websites and how bad they usually are – a well considered blog piece in the Guardian
• From the New York Times, the heart-warming story of the man who's eaten at same restaurant (Sardi’s) for SEVENTY SEVEN years
Harden's news...
Our review of Gauthier in Soho
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