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Caribbean-style bar and restaurant The Rum Kitchen will open a third site in Shoreditch in 2020. A spokesperson said: “We’re so excited about opening our third site in Shoreditch, building on the successes of our existing restaurants in Soho and Brixton. “As with Soho and Brixton, we were on the hunt for an area where […]
Taiwanese dim sum group Din Tai Fung is expected to open its second London restaurant in 2020. The brand is set to take on the space vacated by Rhubarb’s Vivi at Centre Point, Propel first reported. Din Tai Fung, which operates more than 160 restaurants worldwide – two have Michelin stars – was previously considering […]
Chef Marco Pierre White has revealed a Hollywood movie about his life, starring Russell Crowe, is in the works. The biopic will chart MPW’s life from budding star to three Michelin-star winner. Crowe will play the restaurateur in his later days. MPW said: “I have just signed the deal. Russell has written the script, Russell’s […]
Steak and chophouse Blacklock will open a fourth site in 2020, adding to its existing ones in Soho, the City, and Shoreditch. The restaurant group is looking to move into Covent Garden, according to Big Hospitality, preferably Henrietta Street (already home to Flat Iron). Blacklock has long been an established favourite with meat eaters. Many […]
• Fraiche in Oxton tops Harden’s 100• 1 in 10 of Harden’s 100 restaurants are Indian• Kent is top county for high quality dining• North West strongest dining region after South East• Edinburgh is second restaurant city A chef who closed his restaurant last year only to re-open it months later has been crowned the […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 15 December 2019. This week’s Christmas article / ‘best of the year’ round-up came from Nicholas Lander in The Financial Times, who gave us his list of favourites (“in 2020, restaurateurs must offer the hospitality many of us crave”). […]
The last ‘Fifteen’ stemming from Jamie Oliver’s 2002 TV documentay series on Channel 4 has ceased trading with immediate effect, putting 100 jobs at risk. Although the woes of the Naked Chef’s restaurant empire and closure of his Jamie’s Italian chain have been well publicised over the last year, this closure is not in fact […]
Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams, the couple behind Peckham restaurant Kudu, will open two new neighbourhood sites in early 2020. Smokey Kudu, described as a “chic cocktail bar”, will launch in January under the arches by Queens Road station. And then Little Kudu, focusing on smaller dishes and tapas, will open in March next to […]
Alejandro Calvo has been appointed head chef of Tast, the Catalan restaurant backed by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Calvo interned under Tast’s executive chef Paco Perez at the two-Michelin-starred Enoteca,in Barcelona, and went on to work with him for seven years. Calvo helped Perez secure his most recent Michelin star at Terra in S’Agaró, […]
Mark Hix will close Hix Soho after ten years, Bloomberg first reported. The celebrated chef said the restaurant had a “good run” but it was time to close and focus on other ventures. Hix said: “We’ve enjoyed a very good run in Soho, but sadly due to rising rents and difficult market conditions we aren’t […]
