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Honest Burgers’ new Manchester Hall restaurant is imminent, according to industry rumours. Harden’s first reported the company’s intent at the beginning of the year. And, while a precise date has yet to be announced, a 27th branch in the burger chain is expected as early as this summer. July? August? We don’t know for sure […]
Hollywood star Robert De Niro has shelved plans to open an 83-bedroom boutique hotel in London. There would have been two restaurants, a spa and a member’s club too. The Oscar-winning actor was due to open the hotel in busy Covent Garden after Westminster City Council granted planning permission for the development in 2016. We had expected […]
Pierre Koffmann and Marco Pierre White are to work together once more – decades after Marco Pierre White left the mentorship of the French gastronome. The pair will open a new restaurant at the Abbey Hotel, Bath – named Koffmann & Mr White’s – in September. It will be a brasserie, serving food from the […]
The team behind Ottolenghi restaurants is to launch ROVI in Fitzrovia next week. Ottolenghi roots will be apparent in the new dining concept, but the restaurant will have a ‘different feeling and character’, according to an announcement from the group. ROVI’s menu will be in line with current London ‘Flexitarian’ dining trends: vegetables will sit […]
Definitely a game of two halves this week, with disappointments for TPB, the Evening Standard reviewers and Jay Rayner, and serious highs for Grace Dent and our intrepid reporters from The Telegraph and The FT. Jay Rayner in The Observer pondered the ” thin line between “That’s genius” and “What in God’s name were they thinking?”” […]
Three London restaurants closed last week after their parent company went into administration. Parabola at the Design Museum, Luytens, a casual, lunch-friendly bistro, and Clerkenwell’s British restaurant Albion all closed with immediate effect on June 20. The closure involves three restaurants owned by Sir Terence and Lady Conran, and Peter Prescott. The Conran family will […]
Roast, the resolutely British (but not always brilliant) restaurant in London’s Borough Market, is to open a second site. The new spin-off will be called Roast Kitchen, and will open this coming autumn in trendy Fitzrovia. Roast Kitchen will have a more casual feel than the original, but will stay true to its name, offering […]
Head chef Danny Parker is to leave the Michelin-starred House of Tides. Parker joined the Newcastle restaurant in February 2014, and first worked under chef-patron Kenny Atkinson before taking charge. As well as receiving the city’s highest rating in Harden’s, the North East outpost also holds a Michelin star and four AA rosettes. While service […]
The team behind two popular West Country pubs have added a third to their portfolio. Dan Brod, Charlie Luxton, and Matt Greenlees, who have found past investment from Soho House chief executive Nick Jones, among others, have bought a third pub. The trio, who run the Beckford Arms near Tisbury, Wiltshire, and the Talbot Inn in […]
