Former Fat Duck group chef Matt Larcombe will tomorrow open his Wild Restaurant in Berkhamsted near Hemel Hempstead, offering a hyper-seasonal menu that celebrates regenerative farming and zero-waste principles. With its own farm close by, Wild will operate on a ‘closed-loop’ system in which produce is grown from seed and leftovers return from the kitchen […]
Rafael Cagali, the star chef behind Da Terra in Bethnal Green, has opened his first restaurant outside London – Maré in Hove (originally launched as Marea, from the Italian for ‘tide’, but rebranded to avoid confusion with another venue). Born in Brazil of Italian descent, Rafael combines his varied culinary influences to create a very distinctive […]
Classic Chelsea brasserie Le Colombier has announced it will cease trading at the end of the year, in a week which witnessed the closure of Pearly Queen in Shoreditch, Koyn in Mayfair and Café Below in the City. Lyon’s seafood specialist in Crouch End will also serve its final guests tomorrow (4 October) after six […]
Edinburgh chef/restaurateur Stuart Ralston will next week launch a Parisian-style wine bar called Vinette in Broughton Street on the edge of the capital city’s New Town. It is his first venture since the September closure of his flagship Aizle, whose name is preserved in Stuart’s newly branded Aizle Hospitality Group. Vinette, which he is opening […]
Christian Coates worked for Manchester hospitality group Living Ventures before setting up his own bar, leaving for a stint in the US and retraining as a nutritionist and personal trainer. At the beginning of this year he set up a new company in his home city, Orka Koncepts, with which he has revamped two former […]
High-end Japanese restaurants in the UK tend to take a two-pronged approach to their drinks, pairing either sake or European-style wines with their menus. Now Luna, the modern omakase counter within the Thesleff Group’s City restaurant Los Mochis, has introduced a third option – pairing its 12-course set menu with Japanese wines. Luna has linked […]
Our global food systems will condemn 40% of natural species to extinction by the end of the century unless we make radical changes. The hospitality sector can lead the way in finding solutions to this crisis – and a Free Biodiversity Toolkit produced by the UK’s Hospitality Sector Council and the Sustainable Restaurant Association shows how. […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 28th September 2025 The Guardian Brasserie Constance, Fulham Grace Dent had “easily the weirdest restaurant experience” of the last six months at a new venture its website presents as a pastoral riverside homage to the post-War cook, florist and potter […]
Chef-patron Robin Gill is to open a new all-day cafe and aperitivo spot called Bar Brasso next door to his flagship restaurant Darby’s, near the new US Embassy in Nine Elms. The space has been operated until recently as Darby’s Next Door, and will offer pastries and coffee in the morning, bigger dishes at lunchtime […]
Anglo-Italian chef Angela Hartnett opens her latest venture today on the top floor of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Cicoria, a bar and restaurant inspired by Turin, is open to the general public as well as ROH ticket-holders. The restaurant will serve lunch and dinner, with the rooftop bar offering panoramic views from […]
