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The de Visscher family will open a branch of The Seafood Bar in Soho, their first international outpost. The 190-cover restaurant will be in a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse at 77 Dean Street in Soho and follows four sites in The Netherlands which are based in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The menu will include ‘fruits de […]
This September, the multi-award winning chef Niklas Ekstedt will open his first restaurant outside of Stockholm, launching Ekstedt at The Yard, part of Great Scotland Yard Hotel in Westminster. Set within the five star hotel, which was once the site of the Metropolitan police, its new flagship restaurant will bring Ekstedt’s signature style of wood […]
The Greyhound pub and restaurant in Beaconsfield Old Town has appointed Chris Hurter as its new pastry chef. It is a statement on intent from the pub. Hurter joins The Greyhound from the Michelin-starred Bybrook restaurant, part of the Manor House Hotel in Castle Combe, where he worked as head pastry chef. Prior to that, Hurter was head […]
BOXPARK has confirmed its first site outside of London with the launch of sibling concept BoxHall in Bristol scheduled for summer 2022. The group has just agreed a lease for the historic harbourside location at Welsh Back Bristol’s O&M’s sheds, which will house its first BoxHall site. Opening in June 2022, BoxHall Bristol will be a modern food hall structure with […]
Gordon Ramsay will open his biggest Street Burger restaurant yet, a 175-cover site at the O2. The site, launching in July, will be set across two floors and will offer a deal comprising a burger, fries, and unlimited soft drinks for £15. It is the latest opening in a major expansion drive for Gordon Ramsay […]
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 […]
