London’s renovated Centre Point tower will include a destination restaurant from the Rhubarb catering group when it reopens next year. The 34-storey office block was one of London’s first skyscrapers when it was completed in 1966, but caused a scandal when it was kept empty for its first nine years, during a housing crisis. Now Grade 1-listed, the tower is […]
Niall Keating has been appointed to succeed Martin Burge as executive chef at Whatley Manor, running the Wiltshire luxury hotel and spa’s two restaurants. It is a first leadership role for 25-year-old Keating, who was born in Staffordshire and has worked under Sat Bains in Nottingham and Corey Lee of three-star Benu in San Francisco. He began his career […]
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⦿ AA Gill of the Sunday Times opened his review of The Magpie Café 5/5 in Whitby with the bombshell that he has cancer, an announcement that – uniquely perhaps for a restaurant review – was trailed by a front-page report. “I’ve got an embarrassment of cancer, the full English,” he wrote, promising to let his readers know […]
It’s nearly time… next Wednesday 23rd November will see the launch of the 26th annual Harden’s London Restuarant Survey. Who is London’s best chef? Where is the best value in the East End? Well, we could tell you, but we’d have to kill you afterwards, so it’s better for everyone that we wait for the official […]
Le Gavroche will close for lunch on Tuesdays and bring last orders forward to 9.30pm to reduce working hours following a newspaper report that it paid kitchen staff as little as £5.50 a hour. According to the The Guardian, several chefs at Michel Roux’s gastronomic bastion in Mayfair said they routinely worked between 62 and 68 hours a […]
Joe Allen, one of the longest-running productions in Theatreland, may be facing the final curtain. Never exactly a foodie hotspot – in fact most famous for its off-menu burger – this 1977 recreation of a famous, brick-lined, NYC Theatreland linchpin (off Times Square) has long earned its keep by being “a great place to meet […]
Can it be nearly 10 years already since Barrafina first opened its doors. Yes, it was January 2007 that this phenomenal homage to Barcelona’s Cal Pep beamed down into Soho. The brainchild of Sam and Eddie Hart, they had the advantage of heritage (their mother was born in Mallorca) in their search to bring some genuine Spanish […]
Scottish craft brewer Innis & Gunn will accelerate plans to expand its Beer Kitchen casual dining concept into England after raising £1 million in 72 hours via crowdfunding. The two Beer Kitchens already open in Edinburgh and Dundee will be joined by another in St Andrews in the next couple of weeks, with Glasgow to follow in the […]
Highly regarded vegetarian restaurant The Gate is opening a new branch in Seymour Place, Marylebone, on December 1. The original Gate opened in Hammersmith 27 years ago, and has earned praise from the Harden’s Survey for “serious, thoughtful and imaginative” veggie cooking. A second venue was added in Islington in 2012. Founders Michael and Adrian Daniel set out […]
