Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 19 January 2020. Paradise, London W1 Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times booked for a return visit to Paradise immediately after her first, and even “felt so evangelical about the place” that she posted on Instagram about the mutton […]
Following on from Fallow’s recent residency success at Carousel, Marylebone, the sustainability focused dining team will embark on a two-month residency at all-day café, restaurant and wine bar Crispin this month. From January 7 to March 7, Fallow will serve dishes such as ribbed corn with kombu salt, hen kofta yakitori with house Sriracha, and […]
Chef James Cochran will celebrate Burns Night at 12:51 in Islington with a five-course tasting menu drawing on his Scottish roots. Cochran’s menu includes two drinks, a Boulevardier cocktail and, later, a Scotch, and begins with treacle cured salmon with smoked cod’s roe, which is garnished with apple, radish, mustard, cress on rye. The menu […]
Celebrated chef Michael Caines is to take over The Cove at Maenport, a beach front restaurant just outside Falmouth, Cornwall. The restaurant will re-launch with Caines in charge in March this year, following a light refurbishment The restaurant will offer a “relaxed and informal approach to dining”, serving morning coffee, lunch, afternoon snacks and dinner, […]
Paul and Emma Ainsworth have announced a full refurbishment and menu overhaul at Caffè Rojano in Padstow, Cornwall. The pair have bought the freehold of the restaurant, which sits on a cobbled square not far from the village harbour. Caffè Rojano will again serve Italian food, though will also incorporate inspiration from New York diners, […]
Michael Leathley has been appointed head chef at The Pierhouse Hotel and Seafood Restaurant, in Port Appin, Argyll. Leathley has joined the 12-bedroom hotel from A’Challtainn fish restaurant in Glasgow, where he was sous chef. He has replaced Sergejs Savickis, who had been at The Pierhouse, which is perched on the shores of Loch Linnhe, […]
Restaurateur Mandy Yin is to launch an as yet unnamed new Malaysian takeaway next door to her acclaimed laksa spot Sambal Shiok. Yin, who has for some time supplied some of London’s best laksa from her small restaurant in Islington, said the venture will be “a completely separate concept to Sambal, a community-minded quick lunch […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 12 January 2020. Bistro 46, Newcastle “It took me a while to get to Bistro 46, but I’m very pleased I made it.” The Observer’s Jay Rayner was still in the North, and dropped into Newcastle to review a […]
Restaurant MCR, previously known as Manchester House, has closed again. Chef director Aiden Byrne announced the news in the Manchester Evening News and said this time the restaurant has shut for good. MCR relaunched just over a year ago and operated under a two-month rolling lease. But despite glowing reviews – “exceptional food”; “lovely environment” […]
Australian restaurant group the Daisy Green Collection will host an Australia Day celebration in order to raise money for the relief effort in the country as it continues to tackle devastating bushfires. On Saturday 25, Timmy Green in Victoria will host an eight-course tasting menu event, with all proceeds donated to the victims of the […]
