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BaoziInn Romilly Street, the Chinese restaurant that serves northern Chinese street food and colourful Cantonese ‘fusion’ dim sum, is to open a second site in November. The Soho restaurant will launch a stall at Victoria’s revamped Market Halls. Since 1909, Terminus Place has been home to an Edwardian shopping arcade, a traditional restaurant, and a […]
Harden’s invites you to an exclusive celebration of British Isles cuisine with Richard Corrigan to mark his 10th Year at Corrigans Restaurant Tickets are now on sale for this exclusive one-off event at Corrigan’s in Mayfair to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. On Monday 19 November, Richard Corrigan is marking his flagship Mayfair restaurant’s 10th anniversary […]
Harden’s has five copies of Daniel Clifford’s new book ‘Out of my Tree – Midsummer House‘ to give away to readers. Published on Midsummer’s Day this year, Out of my Tree is part autobiography, part cookbook; a warts-and-all account of the pressures and triumphs of Daniel’s 20 years in the hospitality industry. From a broken home to working […]
Five stars for Andrew Wong’s new City restaurant in The Evening Standard from Fay Maschler. She admits to feeling “proprietorial” about the chef, having been the first to review his reincarnation of his parents Pimlico restaurant in 2012, delighting in the ” skill, wit, inventiveness, subversion and astonishment” of the dim sum (and, yes, she squeezes […]
Artisan and Manchester House have closed down. Both have gone into administration, leaving more than 13o jobs at risk. Owners of the two Manchester restaurants, Living Ventures Group, said both sites have fallen foul of “difficult trading affecting the sector”. Former Living Ventures boss Tim Bacon, who died in 2016, put £3 million of his […]
Ellis and Liam Barrie have been busy. Just a week after the brothers announced the launch of a new restaurant in their hometown of Liverpool, the pair have revealed plans to open a cookery school. The centre, to be located at their successful Marram Grass restaurant in Anglesey, will offer classic cooking classes alongside butchery […]
James Lyon-Shaw, who under the ETM Group has run food-focused pubs such as The Botanist, The Jugged Hare, and Ealing Park Tavern, has teamed up with ex-Ivy head chef Jamie Dobbin to launch a new countryside venture. The pair have taken over the Greene Oak near Windsor within their newly formed Brucan Pub Company. If this one […]
Helena Poulakka, who has worked with the likes of Pierre Koffmann, Pierre Gagnaire, and Gordon Ramsay, has been brought in by D&D London to shake things up at the consistently poor Skylon restaurant on the Southbank. Since 2015, Skylon has been offering diners terrific views over the Thames, but not much more. Puolakka, who until now […]
Chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is to open his first London restaurant. He’ll arrive at The Standard hotel next year. Sanchez-Iglesias, chef owner of the “magical” and “excellent” – though “expensive” – Casamia in Bristol, as well as the “superb” Paco Tapas in the same city, will open on the hotel’s rooftop restaurant in King’s Cross some time […]
