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• New Harden’s guide welcomes notable newcomers but market growth stuck in 7-year flatline • The Devonshire voted London’s Best Pub and the capital sees resurgence in classic French cooking London diners are enjoying superior quality restaurants but with an ever-shorter lifespan. Growth and churn rates featured in the new edition of Harden’s London Restaurants […]
Northern culinary powerhouse Northcote has announced an all-star line-up of visiting chefs for the 25th anniversary edition of Obsession, its annual mid-winter ‘Glastonbury of Gastronomy’ in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. The festival will host more than 1,700 diners over 17 consecutive nights from 24 January to 9 February next year. The 21 participating chefs with 27 […]
Leytonstone’s legendary Thai canteen Singburi has closed for a “sabbatical” of at least two months, to allow the family behind it to take stock after a quarter of century’s hard work. Described in the 2024 Harden’s guide as “wildly popular” for the “fabulous and authentic” dishes listed daily on a blackboard menu, the tiny cash-only […]
Dale Dewsbury is to step down from his role as general manager of Restaurant Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles next month, having been a key member of the leadership team since its 2001 launch. Working alongside head chef Stephen McLaughlin, Dale ensured the restaurant maintained its standards following the premature death of Andrew Fairlie in January […]
Chef Rowley Leigh is making his comeback to the kitchen at the age of 74 this month, working alongside executive chef Mahdi Chawki at the Don restaurant in the City of London. Rowley, who made his name at Le Poulbot, Kensington Place and Le Café Anglais, has designed a menu based on classic simplicity and […]
Filipino street-food specialist Rex De Guzman opens his first permanent restaurant, Turo Turo barbecue and grill, in Tooting next Wednesday, 14 November. A former chef at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze, Rex has operated Turo Turo – a term for fast food in the Philippines – as a market stall over the past decade, and more recently as a […]
A restaurant offering a ‘fine-dining’ take on classic northern dishes has launched in Rochdale’s newly restored Victorian Gothic town hall. The Martlet Kitchen, named after a mythical bird with no legs, has taken flight under chef Darren Parkinson, formerly of Shibden Mill in Halifax. It is open all day from breakfast, via a straightforward lunch […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant reviewers were writing about in the week up to 3rd November 2024 London Standard The Yellow Bittern, Islington David Ellis reviewed a “new Irish-British bistro open only for lunch, specifically lengthy, boozy ones” – although he sniffed at the idea that a proper long lunch was possible in the […]
A new steakhouse showcasing prime grass-fed Yorkshire beef opens tonight in a landmark 1930s building in Hull that has been empty for the past 10 years. One Steakhouse & Lounge, at 1 Witham overlooking North Bridge on the edge of the city centre, will accommodate up to 200 guests in the transformed dining room and […]
Prolific Mayfair-based restaurateur Samyukta Nair is to open her first Italian restaurant next week – Nipotina, an all-day family-oriented neighbourhood venue in South Audley Street. Turin-born chef Somaia Hammad (right in photograph) will lead the kitchen, while Luca Dusi (left), of Passione Vino in Shoreditch, has assembled a wine list featuring small and artisanal producers from […]
