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Texture has been named this year’s UK winner of the international gastronomic sherry competition, the Copa Jerez. Head chef Karl O’Dell and sommelier Alan Bednarski saw off steely competition at a contest held in Cardiff on October 1. The bi-annual contest sees some of the country’s finest restaurants compete with three-course tasting menus designed specifically to […]
Sticks’n’Sushi has opened its eighth site in the UK. A big, striking new branch of the ever-expanding Danish chain launched on the King’s Road on October 1. The 220-cover site stretches across three floors, with bold, classically simple Scandi interiors designed by Copenhagen architects Norm. Downstairs is a private dining room with an open kitchen. […]
The Coconut Tree, which focuses on affordable Sri Lankan street food, is opening a third site in Bristol. The concept is one to watch having established itself already in Cheltenham and Oxford. The new 80-cover restaurant will start serving today (Friday October 5) on Gloucester Road, The Caterer noted in a listing. Expect dishes such as […]
Flat Iron is to launch in King’s Cross. Butcher and founder Charlie Carroll is opening a 110-cover site on Caledonian Road later this month. The concept won’t be changing, with the underused feather blade still the centrepiece of the restaurant. However, Carroll is also introducing the under blade fillet, tri-tip, and rump cap to the […]
Kerridge’s Bar & Grill, London SW1 Grace Dent in The Guardian is the latest critic to visit Tom Kerridge’s long-awaited London home, and she “was delighted with everything”, even the fish ‘n’ chips which cost almost £33 but came with “special, once-in-a-lifetime chips… triple-cooked with an ethereal, golden shimmer”. Kerridge’s is “a big, broad and brassy […]
Michelin 2019 Countdown It’s the final countdown (da da duh duuuh, da da da duh duh…) Yes, we only have to wait till next Monday at 4:30pm to start to hear the latest exciting news from Tyre Man HQ. Well maybe. Like all oracles, the Michelin Man moves in mysterious ways. Anticlimax is an ever-present […]
Liverpool-born chef Ellis Barrie is to open his first restaurant in his home city. Barrie has announced plans to launch a venture along with his brother Liam on the Royal Albert Dock in 2019. Barrie’s cooking reputation has been blossoming over recent years, largely thanks to Anglesey restaurant Marram Grass, which he currently runs with […]
Babaji, the Soho pide restaurant founded by veteran restaurateur Alan Yau, has closed. The news broke by way of a notice taped to the front door, which read: “Restaurant closed by the official receiver”. Uncertainty surrounded the Turkish concept restaurant back in March. Babaji rode it out for a time, but word of possible issues […]
The team behind Manchester restaurant El Gato Negro have opened a second site in the city. Canto launched last week (Thursday 20 September) in the Fairbairn building in the Ancoats area of the city – a Manchester spot very different to their original venture. El Gato, which first opened in rural Ripponden before relocating to Manchester, […]
The Imperial Treasure group is to open its first venture in London. The group, which operates acclaimed restaurants in China, Honk Kong, and Singapore, will launch a fine dining restaurant in St James’s in November 2018. Harden’s reported on Imperial Treasure’s plans some time ago, but details have only just been officially confirmed. Called Imperial Treasure […]
