In December, Bonhams Restaurant – the quirky space at the back of the famous auctioneers that was formerly a firm favourite with Harden’s reporters – announced it would be closing. The future of the Mayfair site was then unknown. Well, we now know: the Woodhead Restaurant Group, which operates Portland, Clipstone, and the Quality Chop […]
Corbin & King’s latest debut, Soutine, finally has a launch date – albeit a loose one. The St John’s Wood restaurant (which occupies a site snapped up from Carluccio’s) will open some time over the week beginning April 29, according to the group. A statement from Corbin & King said: “We will be commissioning the […]
The former head chef of one of East London’s finest modern restaurants has opened a new fixture in Hackney. Adolfo De Cecco, who once graced the kitchen of the “breathtakingly inventive” and “astonishingly good” Pidgin, launched Casa Fofó on April 10. The name pays homage to the chef founder’s grandfather, who came from the town […]
Peg, London E9 Jimi Famuwera from The Evening Standard is the latest critic to pay a visit to Peg; it reminded him of LA restaurants he’d visited (mostly because of the feeling of “smugness and nagging inadequacy” it engendered), but he soon admitted that his first impressions were quite wrong. The “no-reservations arrowhead of a […]
Chef Jamie Coleman has joined the Beach at Bude, a boutique hotel on the north coast of Cornwall. The chef has ventured west from the Michelin-starred Masons Arms in Devon. There, reviews have been steadily strong – “lovely and laid back” with “fantastic dishes” are recent comments. Cornwall, then, will likely suit Coleman. The Beach […]
Brighton restaurant team Robert Maynard, Faye Hudson, and James Thomson, together with chef Oliver Derby, are opening a new restaurant called Wild Flor, just down the road in Hove. The bistro has sparked plenty of buzz on the south coast. All four members of the founding team are well-known in the restaurant industry in Brighton, […]
Hide’s Ollie Dabbous is to open a pop-up restaurant at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. Dabbous will open a new concept restaurant at Chelsea Barracks Kitchen for seven days in May. The dining space will run from May 20-26, but menu details are currently under-wraps. If Hide – “wow” – is anything to go […]
The group behind Hache, Cabana Brasil and Hush Mayfair has opened a new restaurant in Kingston, taking on the site left vacant by the recently departed Cau. Branded as Hache Riverside Social, the restaurant is a standalone, extended branch of the burger chain. It opened late last month and features the group’s core burger menu […]
Spencer Metzger, premier sous chef at The Ritz, has been named this year’s winner of the prestigious Roux Scholarship. Metzger has been at the hotel for three years, working under acclaimed executive chef John Williams. Before The Ritz, the young chef, just 25, worked at Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume. After being given his award by Michel […]
