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A new Italian restaurant focused on the food of Tuscany has opened in a former pub in Brixton. Maremma, from Alice Staple and Dickie Bielenberg, has launched on Water Lane and takes inspiration from the “unspoilt coastal region of southern Tuscany, famed for its salumi, seafood, olive groves and vineyards”. Staple, formerly a private chef, […]
An eagle-eyed hospitality analyst spotted something exciting on the window of a site on in Marylebone on Wednesday. Mark Wingett from insights group Propel saw a notice of application for a premises licence on James Street. The document says Stephen (Stevie) Parle applied to Westminster Council on May 24 to open… something. Harden’s asked the […]
Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge has come aboard for one of Manchester’s most high-profile openings of recent years. He steps into the shoes originally destined for Michael O’ Hare: impresario behind Leeds phenomenon, Man Behind the Curtain. The Hand and Flowers founder will look after the food and beverage operation occupying one of the city’s landmark […]
Radio Alice, the Bologna-born pizzeria founded by brothers Salvatore and Matteo Aloe will launch a third site in Canary Wharf. The brand currently has two London sites, Hoxton, which opened in 2016, and Clapham, which opened a year later. The business was forged in Bologna in 2010, where the Aloe brothers opened Berbere, the original […]
Foxlow is soon to be no more. Hawksmoor’s neighbourhood steak chain will cease trading on Friday June 28, the company has announced. The group shuttered its Soho restaurant in April this year, and just three months later, the two remaining sites, in Clerkenwell and Balham, will go at the end of the month. Hawksmoor launched […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 9 June 2019. AngloThai at Counter Culture, London SW4 “It’s testament to how much I want to eat Chantarasak’s food that I’ll schlep down here to this ghetto of Zara-clad Freddies and Livvys and sit on a petrol-fumed pavement table watching an unending […]
After eight years and one Michelin star, Mikael Jonsson’s Chiswick restaurant Hedone has closed. Last service was on June 1. The closure is a sad one. While Hedone wasn’t perfect, it was an inspiring passion project of broad acclaim and ex-lawyer (and Paleo diet follower due to his allergies) Mikael Jonsson’s devotion to sourcing incredible […]
Angela Hartnett has plans to take her casual and buzzy Cafe Murano concept to Bermondsey. Currently chef-patron at Mayfair’s Murano, Hartnett has two spin-off Cafe sites in Covent Garden and St James’s. Now, the star chef is hoping to add a third Cafe Murano, and a fourth in the title group, south of the river. […]
Food stylist and Life Kitchen founder Ryan Riley launched his first cookery school for people with cancer on Tuesday 4 June. Riley, whose mother Krista died of lung cancer in 2014, set up the Life Kitchen charity to help people having chemotherapy. To date, he has been hosting pop-up events at restaurants such as Duck […]
Mehdi Amiri has been named head chef at Eckington Manor. The chef joins the Worcestershire restaurant after dividing the last 18 years between Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, the Fat Duck, and Swinton Park Hotel. He will replace joint head chefs and spouses Sue and Mark Stinchcombe. He told The Caterer: “I’m really looking forward to […]
