The Telegraph’s new critic visits a vegan restaurant, Giles Coren finds two great new Oxford restaurants, and another critic jumps the queue at Din Tai Fung Gridiron, London SW1 Jay Rayner for The Observer found himself at the former The Met Bar location for his first review of 2019; it’s “has worked hard at the […]
Shay Cooper, who’s been executive head chef at The Goring for the past five years, is to leave The Dining Room, its flagship restaurant. The announcement comes just two weeks after the hotel announced it has hired Nathan Outlaw to open a new fish restaurant, The Goring’s first new premises in 108 years. Currently-unnamed, it […]
Big Mamma, an Italian restaurant group from Paris, is soon to open two sites in London. The group announced an opening in Shoreditch in autumn last year, and news now comes that it is also set to launch on Rathbone Square in Fitzrovia. That’s the latest update, anyway, from a business owner local to the […]
A sixth Pig hotel is the first of three new openings announced briefly in January last year. The first to open, in May, will be in the village of Bridge near Canterbury, Kent. The second to launch will be at Harlyn Bay near Padstow in Cornwall, though that won’t arrive until spring 2020, while the Pig […]
Back in mid-December, we reported Mayfair’s famous Fera at Claridge’s would close. It shut its doors on New Years Eve. Restaurant kitchens have been abuzz with speculation over who head chef Matt Starling’s successor might be. More than one industry insider has suggested the chef to take charge is Daniel Humm, the man behind New York […]
Hipster heroes the P Franco team are to open their third London restaurant this year, taking over the spot on Morning Lane previously occupied by Legs, which closed – to some consternation – at the tail end of 2018. According to owner Phil Bracey, ‘Peg’ (see what they did there…) will be more akin to the […]
Patrick Powell, former head chef at the Chiltern Firehouse, is to open a new restaurant at The Stratford Hotel, part of the mammoth Manhattan Loft Gardens development in Stratford. The venue, a ‘sky high’ fixture with views across East London and beyond, is one of many high-profile complexes – all including dining – on the […]
Cantor’s Food Store, Manchester Jay Rayner for The Observer found “Ottolenghi with a Manc accent” (and a pizza oven) in Manchester, at Cantor’s Food Store. It’s run by Eddy Cantor: the food “draws loosely on his Jewish roots”, and is “a happy place, where you could mislay an afternoon or a morning”. Although apparently it’s […]
Establishment favourite, The Goring – just behind Buck Pal, its dining room is one of the few restaurants to have fed The Queen; and the hotel itself was where the Middleton sisters shimmied into their respective dresses on the day Kate married Wills – is to open its first new restaurant at the hotel since […]
