Claude Bosi and Samyukta Nair are joining forces to open a Riviera-style restaurant in Mayfair this summer. Named Socca, it will occupy the South Audley Street site which formerly housed Richoux, the century-old French tea house which closed amid pandemic losses a year ago. The business partnership between the Lyons-born chef, patron of Bibendum, and […]
Whatley Manor, the Wiltshire country-house hotel whose dining room – billed as The Dining Room – appears regularly on lists of Britain’s best restaurants, has promoted Ricki Weston to the role of executive chef following the departure of the acclaimed Niall Keating. Ricki has worked for some of the country’s most adventurous chefs, including Matt Gillan at […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 9 January 2022. ***** The Observer “Every dish, every snack and small plate, every bowl of pasta, side and sharing platter, arrives with a tap dance and a huge ta-da!” Rebuked (gently) for his overuse […]
The team behind The Oystermen seafood bar in Covent Garden are scheduled to open their follow-up this month – Walter’s in West Dulwich, which they are pitching as a neighbourhood restaurant serving modern British cooking. Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell launched The Oystermen in 2017, winning acclaim for the quality of both food and service. […]
Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo is taking over a high-profile Italian restaurant in Cheshire frequented by footballers, it emerged this week as his My Pasta Bar trio reportedly went into liquidation with debts of £5million, including £37,000 owed to staff. The Alderley Edge branch of Piccolino, part of the Individual Restaurants group, last month announced it […]
The Chester Grosvenor, one of the heavyweight dining venues of the northwest, has appointed chef Elliot Hill as the successor to Simon Radley, who left last October after 30 years in the kitchen. Chester-born Elliot made his name as head chef at Liverpool skyscraper restaurant Panoramic 34, and earlier in his career worked at the […]
Chef Kerth Gumbs, from the tiny West Indian island of Anguilla (pop 15,000), will bring some unusual Caribbean influences to new restaurant Boiler & Co, which opens behind Tate Modern in Southwark next week. Takeaway coffee will be available from next Friday, January 14, although diners may have to wait a little longer for a […]
Norwich’s plant-based Erpingham House, the UK’s largest vegan restaurant, is to make its debut in the capital next week with a Veganuary residency at Cloud Twelve wellness and lifestyle club in Notting Hill, opening on Monday 11 January. The flagship venue, which has a café, restaurant and bar over three floors of a listed building […]
Happy New Year! Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 2 January 2022 – as expected, the food pages are full of Veganuary and Dry January once again, but there are a few real reviews, too. ***** Congratulations to the industry folk […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 26 December 2021. This is the last proper Review of the Reviews of the year, it’s a short but packed edition, with the ‘best ofs’ still trickling in (Marina and Grace delivered theirs last week, […]
