For The Observer, Jay Rayner recommends that you “find something worth celebrating” in order to eat at Liverpool’s “note perfect” Roski, from former (joint) MasterChef: The Professionals winner, Anton Piotrowski, who Jay remembers judging in 2012. He tried cooking in rural Devon and Plymouth before settling here – all Jay can say is “Lucky Liverpool”. “Care […]
Chef Andrew Fairlie is stepping down from his his restaurant at Gleneagles, the only in Scotland to hold two Michelin stars. Fairlie was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, and since then has undergone chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, but doctors have confirmed the brain tumour is now terminal. As a result, the chef announced he will […]
Two of Bristol’s most popular restaurants are teaming up to open a new bistro menu in Clifton village. Wellbourne and Wallfish Bistro are set to combine to become Wallfish & Wellbourne Bistro. The concept will operate from Wellbourne’s current site on The Mall on November 14. Wellbourne chef Ross Gibbens and Wallfish’s Seldon Curry said the […]
Polpetto, Russel Norman’s “expressive and experimental” sister restaurant to Polpo, has relaunched with a new head chef. Anthea Stephenson has joined the Soho restaurant having honed her skills at the River Cafe, The Jugged Hare and Sketch, and has devised an entirely new menu designed for sharing and feasting. The chef has also brought with […]
Casual Dining Group CDG, the company behind high street chains such as Café Rouge, La Tasca, and Bella Italia, has called in a restructuring adviser in a bid to lobby landlords into lowering rents, according to The Times. CDG has closed more than 40 restaurants over the past two years, but said it continues to […]
Asma Khan is to open a new restaurant in Soho. Calcutta Canteen by Darjeeling Express will be a Bengali-inspired cafe, serving bread buns called pau, traditional teas, and Indian cakes. Khan, who next year will become the first British chef to appear on Netflix’s Chef’s Table, will be running Calcutta Canteen on until February 2019. As a […]
Worst performance recorded in guide’s 28 years Texture highest-scoring restaurant for food Shift from red meat to vegetarianism The highest-ever number of restaurants closed in London in the last 12 months. That’s the conclusion of the 28th edition of Harden’s London Restaurants and its equivalent apps, published on 8th November, which record 117 closures: the […]
1251, London N1 Jimi Famurewa for The Evening Standard ventured to Islington and James Cochran’s new restaurant, who has “once again plundered his Scottish and Saint Vincent heritage (plus the influence of a childhood in Whitstable)”. A “Kentish-Scots-Caribbean” blend may sound like “the stuff of a disastrous ‘fusion cuisine’”, but in Cochran’s hand ” it […]
In case you missed the furore of the week, William Sitwell, editor of Waitrose Food magazine, ‘resigned’ after an ill-advised response to a vegan freelancer. Selene Nelson had pitched Sitwell a “plant based meal series” to which he responded thus: “Hi Selene. “Thanks for this. “How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. […]
