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Wales and Real Madrid star Gareth Bale is planning to open a restaurant space and mini-golf destination in Cardiff. Par 59 will be based in the city’s Capitol Shopping Centre and will feature two mini-golf courses, two large bars, and dining rooms. Food will come from two independently run kitchens, with sushi from Japanese food […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 8 March 2020. Happy International Women’s Day! Your Mum’s Kitchen, London NW6 Jay Rayner from The Observer was still musing on the different styles of restaurant reviewing this week, with homage to Jonathan Gold “who reviewed for the LA Times prior to his infuriatingly premature […]
Corbin & King have together revealed their latest restaurant, Manzi’s, will launch at the end of May. The big and bold seafood restaurant, which will focus on fish and vegetarian food, will be situated on Bateman Passage, which runs between Soho Square and Bateman Street. “A fish and seafood restaurant, it will also have a […]
The Salutation, hotel and restaurant made famous by former Gogglebox stars “Steph and Dom”, has closed. The 17 bedroom hotel, in Sandwich, Kent, went into insolvency in January and has now entered into Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation, with bookings now not being met. The business was being run by John Fothergill, who had a five-year lease […]
Bone Daddies founder Ross Shonhan will depart the restaurant group seven years after opening its first ramen bar. Since its inception in 2012, Bone Daddies has grown to six sites, with bao concept Flesh & Buns – there are now two – launched a year later. Shack-Fuyu, which serves Western-influence Japanese food, is also part […]
The Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone has announced the menu for his highly anticipated London restaurant launch. Nico, who has conquered Scotland and the North West, has long been rumoured to be arriving the capital, and now he finally is. Six By Nico, which opens in Fitzrovia at the end of the month, will follow the […]
Historic French cookery school and culinary institute Le Cordon Bleu is to open a new fine dining restaurant, café, and cookery school concept in London. Named Cord, the 90-cover restaurant will launch in the City of London in spring and will open for lunch and dinner, Monday to Friday. There will be a tasting menu, […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 1 March 2020. The Melusine, London E1 “Luring actual Londoners to St Katharine Dock is no mean feat”, Grace Dent of The Guardian says of the “peculiar cul-de-sac close to the Thames-side crown jewels tourist drag of the Tower of London”. But The […]
