Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 6 June 2021. ***** The Guardian Grace Dent was in Liverpool, surrounded by the familiar voices of her childhood. “There’s an increasingly vibrant restaurant scene” here, thanks to the billions “spent on rejigging and rebuilding […]
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has backed proposals to see a coronavirus recovery visa set-up to tackle the hospitality industry’s relentless staffing shortage. As Harden’s has previously reported, thousands of EU and foreign workers went home during lockdown and have been unable – or unwilling – to return due to Brexit complications and coronavirus […]
Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams, the duo behind the up and coming restaurant group Kudu Collective, will launch a fourth site, Kudu Grill, in Peckham on July 28. The group’s co-founders have revived a former Truman’s pub on Nunhead Lane, creating a 50-cover restaurant that centres around the braai – a South African grill using […]
Le Gavroche has been forced to stop lunch service due to a lack of skilled staff. Michel Roux Jr announced the decision this week and partly blamed both Brexit and the pandemic for the move. He said the alternative would be to overwork existing employees “which we are not prepared to do”. Roux’s statement said: […]
UKHospitality and the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) have joined forces to promote jobs in hospitality, with the sector facing a shortage of workers following more than a year of closures and severely restricted trading (and Brexit issues, though the Government wouldn’t admit to that). The Home Office told us previously that it wanted […]
Some 17 years after Nigel Haworth first opened the door to The Three Fishes in Mitton, he’s back “with a vision of taking the pub to new heights and regaining its title as the ‘Best Dining Pub in the UK’” (it was pretty good, but we’re not sure who gave it that title…) Haworth first took over the […]
Our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 30 May 2021. ***** The Sunday Times “In years of doing this gig I don’t think a week has gone by without someone complaining — via whatever platform — about the bill.” After a quick detour about […]
Deadline: June 26 At last, we’re back to doing what we love: finding out from diners what they think of their favourite restaurants. In case you are new to Harden’s, the ratings and reviews on our website, app and print guides are based on our Annual National Diners Poll. And your vote is invited! Please […]
Miguel Angel Major has been appointed head chef at Glasgow’s Rioja restaurant. The Spanish chef previously led the team at Sucede in Valencia, steering the kitchen to its first Michelin star in 2017. He comes with yet more peigree, having worked as a research and development collaborator at Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli foundation until 2015. […]
