Five stars for Andrew Wong’s new City restaurant in The Evening Standard from Fay Maschler. She admits to feeling “proprietorial” about the chef, having been the first to review his reincarnation of his parents Pimlico restaurant in 2012, delighting in the ” skill, wit, inventiveness, subversion and astonishment” of the dim sum (and, yes, she squeezes […]
Artisan and Manchester House have closed down. Both have gone into administration, leaving more than 13o jobs at risk. Owners of the two Manchester restaurants, Living Ventures Group, said both sites have fallen foul of “difficult trading affecting the sector”. Former Living Ventures boss Tim Bacon, who died in 2016, put £3 million of his […]
Ellis and Liam Barrie have been busy. Just a week after the brothers announced the launch of a new restaurant in their hometown of Liverpool, the pair have revealed plans to open a cookery school. The centre, to be located at their successful Marram Grass restaurant in Anglesey, will offer classic cooking classes alongside butchery […]
James Lyon-Shaw, who under the ETM Group has run food-focused pubs such as The Botanist, The Jugged Hare, and Ealing Park Tavern, has teamed up with ex-Ivy head chef Jamie Dobbin to launch a new countryside venture. The pair have taken over the Greene Oak near Windsor within their newly formed Brucan Pub Company. If this one […]
Helena Poulakka, who has worked with the likes of Pierre Koffmann, Pierre Gagnaire, and Gordon Ramsay, has been brought in by D&D London to shake things up at the consistently poor Skylon restaurant on the Southbank. Since 2015, Skylon has been offering diners terrific views over the Thames, but not much more. Puolakka, who until now […]
Chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is to open his first London restaurant. He’ll arrive at The Standard hotel next year. Sanchez-Iglesias, chef owner of the “magical” and “excellent” – though “expensive” – Casamia in Bristol, as well as the “superb” Paco Tapas in the same city, will open on the hotel’s rooftop restaurant in King’s Cross some time […]
Grace Dent paid a visit to York for The Guardian, and the new restaurant from Tommy Banks, “posterboy for British hospitality”, winner of The Great British Menu and chef-patron at the much-loved Black Swan at Oldstead. She declares Roots, in a vast converted Victorian pub York’s “new star attraction” – better even than the Jorvik […]
The scores are in… But rather than Craig Revel Horwood holding up a number on a wand, Michelin treated an all-star cast of chefs to a somewhat offbeat ceremony at London’s BFI IMAX on Monday of this week (the 1st of October). The awards were punctuated by lots of folksy chat, with much of the show […]
