Former long-serving Gordon Ramsay chef James Durrant is to launch a new restaurant, the Game Bird, at the Stafford hotel in St James’s. Best known for its American Bar, the Stafford is a classic central London bolt-hole, tucked away from the crowds of Piccadilly beside Green Park. Durrant’s menu will feature plenty of game, including grouse, Rhug estate […]
⦿ Jay Rayner of The Observer reviewed The Jetty at the Harbour Hotel in Christchurch, Dorset, a “place where land meets sea”. “A starter of octopus three ways is a master class in how to take a blunt object and bend it to your will.” “The Jetty mix fish grill…. is one of the prettiest platefuls […]
Sourced Market this week became the first food business to open in the vast Nova restaurant-and-retail development opposite Victoria station. A further 16 restaurants and pop-up kiosks are due to open from early next year in the lower floors of the £250million Land Securities development, which also contains offices and luxury flats. There will be outdoor seating for 700 […]
A dramatic aerial pavilion will be built to house a Japanese restaurant above a square in Brighton. The city council has given planning permission for Moshimo sushi restaurant to install the 150-seater “Skylight” project at seventh-storey level, with views over the old town and the sea. Designed by architect Michael Spooner, the pavilion will be prefabricated in Littlehampton […]
Leeds chef Michael O’Hare has released further details of the three restaurants he is opening in Manchester with former footballers Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville – including their typically extravagant names. The Man Who Fell to Earth, a “formal Parisian ballroom-style” venue, and the more casual Are Friends Electric will be housed in the boutique […]
The humble chop – or should that be the mighty chop? – is having a moment, appearing in the name of two new London restaurants. The Tandoor Chop House in Covent Garden, which opens on November 28, is described as “the meeting of a North Indian communal eatery and a classic British chop house”. Its […]
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 […]
⦿ 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 […]
