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Mayfair restaurant The Square was seized mid-service by administrators on Friday January 31. First reported by the Staff Canteen, diners were allegedly eating at the restaurant when it was taken and immediately closed. It came four months after lawyers served owner Marlon Abela, who operates Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation, with a bankruptcy petition. As well […]
Dormy House hotel in Broadway, Worcestershire, has appointed Ryan Shilton as its new head chef. Shilton has joined the hotel from Larder Lichfield in Staffordshire, and has also previously worked at Swinfen Hall hotel nearby. The chef will be responsible for the Back Garden restaurant as well as the more casual Potting Shed. He will […]
Legendary Indian restaurant Gymkhana has announced a reopening date: February 18. The relaunch comes nine months after a fire closed the restaurant, much to the dismay of its many fans. Gymkhana will offer the same menu that has earned it accolades since 2014, though with new additions, and has been given a complete refurbishment. Reservation […]
The head chef of Elystan Street has left the restaurant due to what has been described as a “professional difference of opinion”. On Instagram, Toby Burrowes said: “Well the time has come, I have stepped down as head chef at Elystan Street, due to a professional difference of opinion.” The chef moved to Elystan Street […]
Nobu is allegedly set to close its Mayfair restaurant in Berkeley Street ahead of launching in Portman Square in the summer. Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper opened the restaurant 15 years ago and now, under the Nobu Hospitality banner, operate two other London sites in Shoreditch, a hotel which opened in 2017, […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 2 February 2020. Mei Mei, London SE1 Jimi Famurewa for The Evening Standard is the first to report on Elizabeth Haigh’s new Borough Market Kitchen outlet; the “tiny counter café” that’s “a meticulous, loving riff on the thrumming ‘kopitiam’ coffee shops that are […]
Chef Tom Aikens has opened his latest restaurant, Muse, in Chelsea. Already his ten-course tasting menu has been called everything from terribly “pretentious twaddle” to “pure genius“. It has, it’s safe to say, caused a stir. It remains to be seen whether the controversial chef will win over the public. But it’s where people will […]
Holborn restaurant Gezellig will close today having been open for just over a year, Harden’s has learned. After a successful residency at Carousel, the trio behind Gezellig – chef Graham Long, and wine professionals James Comyn and Wieteke Teppema – located their own site in Holborn for their unique offering of ‘creative comfort food’. The […]
Edinburgh’s famous Pompadour restaurant, situated in the Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh, has closed after 95 years. The closure is historic, and marks the end of a restaurant that had become an institution in the city – and had long been a celebrity hang out. Between 2012 and 2019 the fixture traded as Pompadour by Galvin under […]
Chef Scott Paton has overseen the launch Àclèaf restaurant in Boringdon Hall hotel, near Plymouth, next week. The restaurant has replaced the Gallery, a restaurant housed in a 42-bedroom Devon hotel which Paton joined in 2016. The chef won awards and gained numerous accolades in his first few years in the role. Now, Paton has […]
