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Tom Kitchin opened The Bonnie Badger, a new pub with rooms, on Wednesday this week. It comes just a month after the launch of his casual dining concept Southside Scran in Edinburgh. Harden’s first mentioned news of The Bonnie Badger in May. It’s just a 30-minute drive from the capital in the village of Gullane on […]
Marylebone Food Festival will return for a second year in 2019, celebrating the area’s restaurants, cafes, wine bars, and food shops. The event, a partnership between two property companies, aims to cast a spotlight on the increasing ‘culinary depth of Marylebone’. Just a handful of local restaurants in our guide include Trishna, L’Autre Pied, Roti Chai, and Picture. […]
Former pop-up TÁ TÁ Eatery is to open a nearly, possibly permanent site in Old Street. The restaurant left Borough Wines in Kensal Rise some time ago, and has since been without a home. The European, Japanese fusion food concept has seen widespread success after launching in multiple temporary sites across London, and has now found […]
Soho institution Quo Vadis has announced the latest lineup for its ‘& Friends: 2019’ series. Approaching its third year, chef patron Jeremy Lee has invited another round of fellow chefs, representing their respective restaurants, to cook with him. The last 12 months saw the likes of Tommy Banks of the Black Swan, Tom Brown of […]
Grace Dent for The Guardian visited yet another home-from-home seaside location, this time in Kent; where she had to invent a new term for the “imperfectly perfect” (so much so that she wanted to “ditch the review to protect it from idiots”) type of restaurant she found there – the “Snuffly-Ligget”. It’s a “small, 26-seat, […]
Staff, including head chef Gary McDermott, are understood to have walked out of the Pentonbridge Inn just before service on Friday. The restaurant with rooms in Carlisle, Cumbria, was forced to close and hasn’t opened since, according to The Caterer. McDermott replaced Jake and Cassie White in September 2018. The couple had launched the pub […]
Chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton has revealed plans for a new 16 cover restaurant in Mayfair. H.O.M.E, which is a working title, will sit next to Atherton’s flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social. The site is currently being rented out by Atherton’s company to pop up ventures, but will soon be revamped and turned into […]
Rohit Ghai, who has just opened the fine-dining Indian restaurant Kutir in Chelsea, will next turn his hand to a street food concept at Boxpark Wembley. Whereas once upon a time a chef with ‘fine dining’ aspirations would not have been seen dead in the mass market, it’s yet another example of the chef […]
Just seven weeks – give or take – after Anthea Stephenson was appointed head chef of Russell Norman’s Polpetto, she has left the restaurant. The departure comes after a big relaunch, with a bold redesign and a new menu. A spokeswoman for the Polpo group said there was no statement available as to what has […]
Brighton restaurant Pascere has announced it will close later this month. Apparently there are plans to reopen elsewhere in Brighton in the new year, but there does seem to be a degree of uncertainty over when, exactly, and whether the offering will continue in its current form. As with most announcements these days, the news […]
