Veteran Australian chef David Thompson has announced his return to the London dining scene, 10 years after the closure of Nahm, the ground-breaking high-quality Thai restaurant he operated from the chic Halkin hotel in Belgravia for a decade. A branch of Long Chim, the casual Thai restaurant he opened first in Perth in 2015, is […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 15 May 2022. ***** The Sunday Times Marina O’Loughlin travelled miles for hours by overcrowded train to reach her review destination this week, and was racked with doubt the whole way. The restaurant’s location (a […]
A new high-end Chinese restaurant is set to open near St James’s Park this month where no expense will be spared to offer the most luxurious ingredients. The Noble Palace, a stone’s throw from Buck House, will serve Peking duck with a choice of Beluga caviar, abalone, or black truffle pancake. Its menu will serve […]
Well-known Scottish chef Kevin Dalgleish is to open his first restaurant as proprietor later this month in his home city of Aberdeen – Amuse, in Queen’s Terrace. Kevin trained at The Savoy in London under the great Anton Edelman, and returned to northeast Scotland to head kitchens at Ackergill Tower then Aberdeen’s Chester Hotel. He […]
Harrods is boosting its credentials as a food and drink destination with the opening over the next next couple of months of two new high-end imports from France – Paris pâtissier extraordinaire Angelo Musa closely followed by a Champagne bar from Moët & Chandon. Musa is executive pastry chef at the opulent Hotel Plaza Athénée, […]
StreetSmart, the restaurant sector’s charity tackling homelessness, raised almost £700,000 in its annual pre-Christmas fund-raising drive last year, despite the dampening effect of Covid on diners’ activity. The charity has now raised more than £11 million since its foundation in 1998, but supporters who celebrated its success at Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell this week […]
A new multi-level restaurant concept is scheduled to open this month at the edge of Cambridge’s ancient market, in the building occupied for almost 50 years by well-known Italian restaurant Don Pasquale. Market House will incorporate a restaurant, an all-day cafe, a wine bar, a food lab and flexible meetings rooms over five floors of […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 8 May 2022. ***** The Guardian “Spring Saturday lunches don’t get much better than this.” Grace Dent finally ventured to Tallow in Kent, just outside Tunbridge Wells; owners Donna and Rob Taylor “left the excellent, […]
Mayfair’s venerable Guinea Grill is running a pop-up supper club on Thursday and Friday nights through the summer in a former Pizza Express across the road. Upstairs at 23 will offer a changing set menu celebrating seasonal British produce. The Grill, which specialises in high-quality British steaks, is tucked away behind the Guinea pub in […]
Peterborough fine-dining pub the Chubby Castor of the Fitzwilliam Arms is to add a new casual dining venue to its main restaurant. The Yard will focus on seasonal local ingredients, including produce grown on-site in raised beds. Chef Adebole Adeshine (pictured), who has worked for Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing, took over the Fitzwilliam Arms […]
