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D&D London is heading to Bristol to launch a restaurant and events venue in the city’s Cabot Circus shopping centre. The 13,000sq ft space will feature a restaurant, bars, private dining areas, and an outdoor terrace, all set within an 18th century friary building. The development again sees D&D team up with Hammerson, which the […]
Romy Gill MBE has called time on her Thornbury restaurant Romy’s Kitchen in Thornbury, Gloucestershire. The chef’s Indian restaurant had been going for six years, to wide acclaim and rave reviews, but, Gill said, it was simply no longer sustainable. “It’s been ten years since I had the building, and six years running the restaurant,” […]
Kevin Tickle has decided to leave his head chef role at The Forest Side to embark on new projects. The chef opened the Lake District restaurant, in Grasmere, in February 2017, and within he and his team had scooped up a multitude of awards. For the past three years, Michelin-starred The Forest Side has wowed […]
Steak restaurant Flank has announced a summer residency at The Print House in Stratford. The nose-to-tail concept, from chef Tom Griffiths, will feature an entirely new menu focused on BBQ cooking, and will launch on August 12. It will be Griffiths’ third site, adding to his existing two in Market Halls Victoria, and Old Spitalfields. […]
Harden’s weekly round-up of the restaurant critics’ reviews, from the week ending 4 August 2019. Little French, Bristol Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times was in Bristol checking out the brand-new (and first solo) venture from Freddy Bird (formerly of the city’s Lido restaurant) – with a challenge, no less: “there are four of us […]
Corbin & King will close its Islington restaurant Bellanger on August 11. In an announcement sent via email, group co-founder Jeremy King said the Alsatian brasserie, which traded for three years, simply didn’t work out financially. He wrote: “It is with great sadness I must inform you that, after over three years trading, we have […]
Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, the chef and manager team best known for New York’s three Michelin-star Eleven Madison Park, have ended their working relationship. This might ring alarm bells in anyone looking forward to Claridge’s new restaurant, Davies and Brook, which Humm and Guidara were set to open. Don’t worry – it will still […]
Wiltons Holdings, which owns London institution Wiltons, as well as the swanky Italian Franco’s, in St James, is to open its third restaurant. Locket’s, a cafe and wine bar, will become the group’s first site to open since 2005, and will launch in October on Bury Street. Wiltons Group has been run by the same […]
Terra Terra, an all-day Italian restaurant concept, will launch in Islington this September, as London’s love of pasta continues with aplomb. Set over two floors, Terra Terra will be multi-faceted. The restaurant will focus on the food of Tuscany, inspired by its markets and classic produce. By day, pasta will chime. But it will also […]
Celebrated chef James Cochran, who currently runs his casual fine dining restaurant 1251 in Islington, is to launch a street food concept called Goat. The Great British Menu winner is opening a site at Boxpark Croydon, with a view to set up there permanently. On the BBC2 show, Cochran wowed judges with his goat meat […]
