Chef Paul Foster’s debut London venue GrassFed opened this week in a reclaimed Camden railway arch – a far cry from the historic timbered premises of his acclaimed restaurant Salt in Stratford-upon-Avon. As the name suggests, GrassFed showcases British beef and other meat, with a particular focus on ethical sourcing, sustainability and regenerative farming techniques. Much […]
An ambitious Indian restaurant inspired by the coastal areas of the subcontinent’s southern states opens in Leeds this week. Ma-Hé, in the Marrion Centre in the city’s central Arena Quarter, is a debut restaurant from founders Manoj Varma, a spirits consultant with property interests in India, and Leeds-based lingerie entrepreneur Mason Asgha of Delta Connex. […]
A new neighbourhood restaurant bringing “sexy but healthy” food to Barnes opens next week. The Farmer’s Mistress has taken the White Hart Lane site long known for its branch of Annie’s, and more recently the short-lived Camile Thai. Founder Joanna Gascoigne, who already has a Farmer’s Mistress branch in Battersea, has transformed the interior of […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association has launched a summer campaign to encourage the development of healthy relationships with food in families and communities. The focus for July is cooking and eating with the family, involving children making more positive food choices, while the focus in August is on communities and the universal right to good, nutritious […]
A sustainable Japanese restaurant using seasonal Sussex ingredients called Fumi has opened in Brighton, from the team behind Wolfox roastery and cafés. The team also opened plant-based Japanese restaurant Kusaki nearby in 2021. Founder Fabio Lauro said: “At Fumi we want to bring everything that is good about the beautiful countryside of Sussex together with […]
One of Devon’s best-known gastropubs, The Swan in Bampton, has closed down in the face of escalating costs and the burden of debt left over from the pandemic. Landlord Paul Berry and his wife Donna, who have run The Swan for 13 years, will now concentrate on their efforts on the restaurant Spelt, also in […]
Hot on the heels of restaurateur supreme Jeremy King announcing his comeback venture The Park – a modern take on the European grand café tradition launching next April opposite the entrance to Kensington Gardens – comes news that he is in “advanced talks” over two sites in the West End: one of them directly opposite […]
Peckham’s Forza Wine, which started out as a supper club 11 years ago, is to take over a large terrace at the National Theatre as the South Bank arts centre consolidates its push to become a serious drinking and dining destination. The 160-cover venue is scheduled to open on the theatre’s northwest terrace in September. […]
How is business going generally, and how has the new restaurant at Canary Wharf been received? Business is good but everyone is sailing through choppy waters, so it feels like the hands need to be on the wheel making small adjustments to the course at all times and having people looking far ahead for calmer […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association explains why, for the hospitality industry, sustainability and nutrition must go hand in hand. “Human health and planetary health are deeply interconnected.” – WHO, 2021 The global food systems in place today are unsustainable. Modern agriculture has become both a deeply destructive driver of the global climate crisis, and itself a […]
