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Struggling burger chain Byron Burger has received a £10 million cash boost from existing investors as it looks to rejuvenate the brand. The investment follows a company voluntary agreement (CVA) last year which saw the group close 19 branches. Byron also saw a £34.5m injection from private equity firm Three Hills Capital Partners, which became […]
Monsieur Le Duck, London E1 Jay Rayner for The Observer visited the nostalgic new pop-up from City worker-turned-restaurateur Richard Humphreys, who dreamed of Gascony, with its restaurants serving duck confit and red wine, and decided to bring his dreams to Liverpool Street. The result is “delightful in a low-key, sweetly romantic way”; the “narrow frame […]
Rochelle Canteen at the ICA is to launch a series of ‘pie and a pint’ nights. Founders Margot Henderson and Melanie Arnold will serve “weekly odes to the humble dish” on Sundays starting on February 17. The pie will come with a pint of Peroni, Guinness, or house wine, and will cost just £10. Dishes […]
A new Indian fine dining restaurant (yes, another one) is to launch in Marylebone on February 14. Ooty is the first venture from friends and entrepreneurs Pooja Nayak and Aseela Goenka and will open at the former site of Galvin Bistro de Luxe on Baker Street. The 80-cover restaurant is named after a small town […]
Paul and Emma Ainsworth, together with their head chef John Walton, are to open a cookery school and chef’s table. Called Mahé, the island in the Seychelles where Paul’s parents met, the school will launch in May this year next to No.6 in Padstow, Cornwall. An announcement said the school and chef’s table will look […]
Dan Doherty has left his position at the Royal Oak, while hospitality group Rhubarb has “severed ties” with the head chef following an investigation into sexual harassment claims made against him by fellow staff members. As the news came to light in The Sunday Times at the weekend, it was reported that Doherty had initially […]
Chef Robby Jenks and restaurant manager Rebecca Galland will be leaving their respective roles at The Vineyard in Berkshire. The restaurant, near Newbury, announced the news this week. It has been reported that Jenks, who at The Vineyard has delivered consistent quality and “unfussy, modern cuisine”, has been appointed head chef at the Samling Hotel […]
In last Friday’s newsletter, the subject line erroneously stated “Exclusive: Daniel Humm confirmed for Claridge’s”. Actually, this was not correct: the story had originally been reported by Richard Vines, Chief Food Critic at Bloomberg. Thank you Richard for spotting this and we are delighted to set the record straight. Some thick thumbs were involved in […]
6 March 2019 Exclusive “Celebration of Iceland” dinner at London’s #1 restaurant Harden’s invites you to a Celebration of Iceland dinner with Agnar Sverrisson, chef-patron of Texture, #1 rated for food in Harden’s 2019 survey Tickets are now on sale for an exciting one-off dinner at Texture in Marylebone celebrating Icelandic cuisine; we invite you to secure your place […]
Olle, London W1 Jay Rayner for The Observer became the living window display he has so often admired when he dined at Olle, a Korean barbeque joint on Shaftesbury Avenue. The menu at Olle will be “broadly familiar” to those have tended to their own hotplate before – here, “they just do it very well” […]
