Chef Aaron Dalton is launching a tasting-menu restaurant called Four inside his home in Worthing next month, in the hope that he can make it work on a permanent basis. A former head chef at London’s Smoking Goat who has also worked at Chez Bruce and Simon Rogan’s Fera, Aaron was planning before the pandemic […]
London’s National Theatre is to have a new seafood brasserie complete with a marble-topped oyster bar featuring a display fridge of smoked salmon and eel. Named after Denys Lasdun, the architect who designed the Brutalist-style South Bank arts complex, the Lasdun is scheduled to open in May. The project is a co-production between the KERB, […]
Our summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 13 February 2023. The Evening Standard “Quite an old-fashioned, family-run restaurant formula in an enlivening new guise.” Jimi Famurewa truffled out a restaurant inside “a swish residential development” in Hoxton; Eline is “a gorgeous little restaurant and wine […]
Senegalese London restaurant Little Baobab is hosting a launch party tonight to mark its permanent new perch at Peckham Levels. Founder Khadim Mane, aka Khadim Mbamba, has run the business on a more informal basis for the past eight years, offering catering services alongside pop-ups and residencies around north and east London. Originally from Dakar, […]
Ambitious former pop-up Manchester restaurant Higher Ground opens tomorrow in a permanent site in the city’s Chinatown, from the team behind Ancoats natural wine bar Flawd. Joe Otway, Daniel Craig Martin and Richard Cossins (left to right in photo) have been working together for three years, although their progress was diverted by the pandemic. The […]
Historic Parisian restaurant Lapérouse is the latest culinary big name to be added to the menu at The OWO – the Old War Office building in Whitehall that opens as a hotel and residences complex by Singapore’s Raffles group this summer. Café Lapérouse will occupy a purpose-built pavilion in the central courtyard, designed by Cordelia de […]
Michel Bourdin, maître chef de cuisine at The Connaught hotel in London for 26 years and one of the last exponents of the grand French hotel gastronomy established by Escoffier, has died at the age of 80. Bourdin, who grew up between Paris and Normandy and retired to Grasse in Provence, was a traditionalist much […]
Seafood cemented its prominence as the chefs’ favourite genre at this year’s Obsession festival in Lancashire, which ended last Sunday (5 February) – with mocktails emerging as the year’s surprise trend. Hosted annually at Northcote, the luxury gastronomic hotel near Blackburn in the Rubble Valley, the two-week-plus festival sold out this year, with 1,800 guests treated […]
Our summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 5 February 2023. The Guardian “Pasta is safe in these chefs’ hands.” Grace Dent is the first of the critics to review Notto, the new Piccadilly pasta joint that started as a lockdown delivery service. “It isn’t remotely […]
Reports of the death of cult Merseyside restaurant Fraiche are greatly exaggerated. Marc Wilkinson, the one-man kitchen brigade at the restaurant in the village of Oxton, says Fraiche is very much open for business – whatever Google says. Described in the latest Harden’s guide as a “genius”, Marc has cooked his way to the top of […]
