Peg, London E9 Jimi Famurewa 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 […]
A new neighbourhood haunt is to open in the heart of the Portobello Market, taking over the very characterful premises which for years have traded as amiable 1980s dive Portobello Gold: an ex-Hell’s Angel’s hang-out, whose past customers have included then-serving-president, Bill Clinton. Gold will be a modern European neighbourhood bar and restaurant in the […]
EartH Kitchen, London N16 Jay Rayner leaped straight in to describing the food when reviewing EartH (not a typo) Kitchen for The Observer; stopping just long enough to explain that it’s “the restaurant of a major new arts venue in London’s Hackney”. Crispy pig’s cheek salad was “an adult bowl of food designed to make […]
Seasoned restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas (a partner in Phil Howard’s Elystan Street and KitchenW8 restaurants) is one of the partners in May 2019 debut Gezellig: a ‘good times’ venture, which has taken over the grand and characterful Holborn site some will still remember as Shanghai Blues (or more recently, a branch of Burger & Lobster). If […]
