Anne-Sophie Pic, hailed as the world’s greatest female chef, opens her first restaurant in Britain, La Dame de Pic, in the City of London next Thursday, January 26. She became only the fourth woman to earn a third Michelin star when the accolade was bestowed 10 years ago on her family restaurant, Maison Pic in Valence, […]

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Moor Hall, the long-awaited new restaurant near Liverpool from Simon Rogan’s former right-hand man Mark Birchall, is now open for bookings from March 1 and may be serving meals before then. Birchall, who spent nine years at L’Enclume, Rogan’s ground-breaking gastro destination in Cumbria, has had to be patient while Moor Hall, a historic Grade II* property with […]

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Australian-raised Italian brothers Gabriel and Marcello Bernardi bring an Antipodean approach to their motherland’s cuisine to London with Bernardi’s, now open in Marylebone. The 120-cover all-day restaurant and bar on the corner of Seymour Street and Seymour Place, occupies two floors of a restored Victorian property in Portman Village. As well as an open plan dining […]

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