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Pioneering burger restaurant MEATliquor has announced another closure. The group’s Brixton location, on Market Row, shut on January 6, and precedes the demise of the flagship venture on Oxford Street, which is set to pull the plug in late January/early February. “Nearly five years after setting up shop, we’re sad to have to announce MEATliquor […]
Chef Ernst van Zyl and partner and general manager Liz Kellett are to take over the Glazebury pub in Warrington next month. South African-born van Zyl first revealed the plans on Twitter. “Exciting news,” he said. “Myself and Liz Kellett will be the new proprietors of the Glazebury in Warrington. “We’re very excited and looking […]
Nathan Outlaw is to leave the Mariners pub restaurant in Rock, Cornwall, after five years. It comes a month after the announcement he had parted ways with his high-profile, six-year billing at The Capital hotel in London. As we reported just two weeks ago, the chef has just been named as the head of a […]
The Telegraph’s new critic visits a vegan restaurant, Giles Coren finds two great new Oxford restaurants, and another critic jumps the queue at Din Tai Fung Gridiron, London SW1 Jay Rayner for The Observer found himself at the former The Met Bar location for his first review of 2019; it’s “has worked hard at the […]
Shay Cooper, who’s been executive head chef at The Goring for the past five years, is to leave The Dining Room, its flagship restaurant. The announcement comes just two weeks after the hotel announced it has hired Nathan Outlaw to open a new fish restaurant, The Goring’s first new premises in 108 years. Currently-unnamed, it […]
Big Mamma, an Italian restaurant group from Paris, is soon to open two sites in London. The group announced an opening in Shoreditch in autumn last year, and news now comes that it is also set to launch on Rathbone Square in Fitzrovia. That’s the latest update, anyway, from a business owner local to the […]
A sixth Pig hotel is the first of three new openings announced briefly in January last year. The first to open, in May, will be in the village of Bridge near Canterbury, Kent. The second to launch will be at Harlyn Bay near Padstow in Cornwall, though that won’t arrive until spring 2020, while the Pig […]
Back in mid-December, we reported Mayfair’s famous Fera at Claridge’s would close. It shut its doors on New Years Eve. Restaurant kitchens have been abuzz with speculation over who head chef Matt Starling’s successor might be. More than one industry insider has suggested the chef to take charge is Daniel Humm, the man behind New York […]
Hipster heroes the P Franco team are to open their third London restaurant this year, taking over the spot on Morning Lane previously occupied by Legs, which closed – to some consternation – at the tail end of 2018. According to owner Phil Bracey, ‘Peg’ (see what they did there…) will be more akin to the […]
Patrick Powell, former head chef at the Chiltern Firehouse, is to open a new restaurant at The Stratford Hotel, part of the mammoth Manhattan Loft Gardens development in Stratford. The venue, a ‘sky high’ fixture with views across East London and beyond, is one of many high-profile complexes – all including dining – on the […]
