From low wages and long hours to cultures of bullying, the hospitality industry has a history of treating its people poorly. It’s time this became a thing of the past. Here, The Sustainable Restaurant Association explores why providing safe, healthy and progressive work environments is important, and shares the benefits this can bring to your […]
In mid-September, the great and good of the Welsh food world, and beyond, descended on Abergavenny for its popular annual food festival. Proud Welsh suppliers, restaurateurs and independent producers flocked to the small Monmouthshire town, but just weeks after these food-fueled celebrations, Abergavenny has lost one of it’s finest restaurants. The Hardwick, operated by chef-owner […]
Guests looking to upgrade their dining experience at one of the UK’s most prolific restaurant groups can now take advantage of a newly launched app offering various perks and benefits. The Ivy Premier Rewards App has been built to enhance the diner offering across the brand, which operates 41 Ivy Café and Brasserie restaurants nationally. […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 1st October 2023. The Observer “An unpretentious, but beguiling little bistro.” Jay Rayner popped to Cirencester to review Sam & Jak, whose owners Sam Edwards and Jak Doggett previously “ran the very much-loved Upton Firehouse in a broad shed not […]
Gastronomic stars from Greece, Italy and Portugal will line up alongside a roster of Britain’s top chefs for the 2024 edition of Obsession, the annual festival of chefs hosted by Northcote fine-dining hotel near Blackburn in Lancashire. Michel Roux Jr will cook with his daughter Emily at the grand finale on Sunday 4 February in […]
Changes are afoot in the culinary offerings available on Piccadilly, with historic brasserie Richoux moving out and contemporary wellness café Volonté moving in this week. Century-old Richoux was bought out of administration two years ago and relaunched by chefs Jamie Butler and Lewis Spencer, who now plan to move it to Soho next year. They […]
The team behind London restaurant Fallow is launching an upmarket low-waste ethical chicken shop called Fowl next week in St James’s Market. Occupying the former Cubitt House pub the Beau Brummell, Fowl opens with a guest collaboration from the great and semi-retired French chef Pierre Koffmann, who has created a Chicken Leg Corn Dog with Aleppo Pepper (pictured) […]
Chef Merlin Labron-Johnson has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds so his high-achieving but tiny Somerset restaurant, Osip, can move into new, much larger premises. The new Osip will be a “country auberge” offering accommodation as well as meals, set in a restored historical building in the countryside a few miles from the current […]
Chef-entrepreneur Gary Usher, who has used record-breaking Kickstarter campaigns to fund the expansion of his northwestern group Elite Bistros, has turned to crowdsourcing in a new direction – this time to find a new name for his Liverpool restaurant, Wreckfish. In a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), Gary has appealed for suggestions to […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 24th September 2023. The Observer “A hotbed of vegetable-love.” Jay Rayner reviewed Tendril, a vegan restaurant that “has put down roots in meaty Mayfair and is doing smart things with great produce”, creating “something distinctive, clever and […]
