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London’s Coal Shed restaurant has brought in former Hawksmoor executive chef Lewis Hannaford as it finally reopens post-lockdown. Hannaford, who has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry, has been described as a “perfect fit” for the British grill restaurant at One Tower Bridge, London. The chef has created a new menu at Coal […]
Vacherin London head chef Nick Smith has been named the Craft Guild of Chefs National Chef of the Year 2021 after after winning over the judges at a fiercely contested competition at Le Cordon Bleu, London. Smith “wowed” the esteemed panel of judges, which was chaired by Paul Ainsworth, and featured chefs including Clare Smyth […]
Our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 27 September 2020. The new 10pm curfew for restaurants and bars, on top of the ‘rule of six’ guidance, could be a “hammer blow” to the industry, as The Evening Standard claims in its interview with top […]
The hospitality industry has been handed a 10pm curfew in the Government’s latest bid to try to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. Instead of implementing a working and widespread track a trace app early on, instead of providing adequate PPE to NHS staff, and instead of more rigorously enforcing hand sanitising and mask-wearing rules […]
Fitzdares, “the world’s finest bookmaker” (so they say), has opened a permanent private members’ club in the heart of Mayfair. Following a number of successful pop-ups, the bookmaker has decided to go one step further in providing members somewhere to watch live sport in both comfort and luxury. Fitzdares has been taking large sporting wagers […]
A new restaurant from chef Kimberley Hernandez will launch in Chiswick in October. Hernandaz brings a wealth of experience to the role, having worked as head chef at XU and Andrew Wong’s Kym’s, and this will be her first solo venture. An announcement said: “Kimberley will serve a contemporary, seasonal menu from breakfast through to […]
Employees kept in work on reduced hours will have their wages topped-up by the Government in a bid to fend off mass redundancies over the dark winter months, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced. Sunak yesterday revealed that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be succeeded by a new Job Support Scheme (JSS) from November. […]
The MasterChef finalist Andrew Kojima has closed his Cheltenham restaurant Koj, explaining that the announcement of new Covid-19 curfew restrictions were the “final nail in the coffin”. Writing in an impassioned post on his website, the chef said incurring the additional costs of operating a business during the coronavirus crisis was too heavy a burden, […]
A new Indian restaurant and bar will launch on Mortimer Street in Fitzrovia in October. Initially set to open in March – it was unsurprisingly pushed back by the pandemic – Pali Hill will serve regional sharing plates upstairs, while the bar, Bandra Bhai, will host cocktails and parties below. The operation is the work […]
Pre-pandemic, Roger & Sue Jones had announced the closure of the celebrated Harrow at Little Bedwyn. But now, they’ve decided to partially re-launch the business based on delivery – and it’s all thanks to Covid-19… In December 2019 – when Coronavirus was a name known to very few outside the scientific community – restaurateurs Roger […]
