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• 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 […]
This January, the 80-cover Ampéli restaurant, from founder Jenny Pagoni, will open its doors on Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia. Taking cues from the modern wine-focused restaurants of Athens, Ampéli will feature dishes inspired by both Greek and Eastern Mediterranean cultures, which will be accompanied by a list of indigenous wines from across the Greek mainland. […]
Fred Sirieix, the now famous maitre d’ thanks to starring in Channel 4’s hit romance dinner show First Dates, is to leave his role as general manager at Galvin at Windows. The French-born front of house professional announced his departure from the London restaurant in an Instagram post last weekend. In the post, he said […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 8 December 2019. We are entering the time of Christmas articles and ‘best of the year’ round-ups; Grace Dent’s article this week was about family Christmas meals, Tom Parker Bowles gave us the list of his favourite cookbooks of […]
