Edinburgh-based special events chef Barry Bryson today opens his debut seafood restaurant, Barry Fish, on the historic Leith waterfront. In more than a decade cooking for events, Barry has worked for high-end clients including Jupiter Artland, Glenmorangie, Louis Vuitton, Aston Martin and the British Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. His pop-ups have included a sold-out season […]
Our weekly roundup of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 9th February 2025 London Standard The French House, Soho Theming his review around Valentine’s Day, David Ellis declared his passion for a restaurant he loves – upstairs at a veteran Soho watering-hole, where Scottish chef Neil Borthwick (“primary influences Michel Bras and […]
Highly rated Norwich chef Roger Hickman is to close his self-named restaurant after 15 years, blaming economic conditions and changes in the industry for his decision. It will serve its last meals on March 30. Roger worked at Adlards restaurant on the same site before taking it over himself in 2010. Since then, it has […]
Shaun Moffat is to open his debut restaurant as chef patron in Manchester city centre this spring, combining ‘thoughtful British cooking’ and ‘Northern hospitality’ at Winsome, in the glass atrium of the Whitworth Locke Hotel on Princess Street. Shaun (pictured centre) made his name locally at the Edinburgh Castle in Ascots – highly praised for its […]
Two heavyweight French restaurants are pulling out of London, with the closure of La Dame de Pic in the City and Café Lapérouse in the Old War Office (OWO) building in Whitehall. La Dame de Pic, the UK outpost of highly decorated French chef Anne-Sophie Pic (pictured), will serve its final meals next Saturday, 15 […]
Leytonstone’s wildly popular Thai canteen Singburi is to be reborn in Shoreditch under a new guise this spring. Run for many years as a family-operated, cash-only BYO that was packed out for every service, the Leytonstone venue announced its closure in November for an open-ended “sabbatical”. Now chef Sirichai Kularbwong (left in photo), the son […]
Chef Victor Garvey is taking the reins at the Midland Grand by St Pancras station, taking over the impressive Gothic Revival space formerly occupied by Marcus Wareing’s restaurant The Gilbert Scott. Victor has joined forces with Harry Handelsman (left in photo), owner of the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, who says: “This is one of the […]
Our weekly roundup of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 2nd February 2025 London Standard Don’t Tell Dad, Queens Park David Ellis headed to the new bakery by day, restaurant by night from Coco di Mama founder Daniel Land that TikTok and his own paper have designated the […]
American luxury lifestyle brand RH – fka Restoration Hardware – is planning to open an eating, drinking and shopping complex in Mayfair incorporating a restaurant, a coffee shop, three bars and a rooftop terrace. The company has submitted plans to Westminster council to transform three Grade II-listed buildings off Savile Row, previously occupied by Abercrombie […]
Chef-restaurateur Andreas Antona has put his landmark Birmingham restaurant Simpsons on the market to mark his retirement after half a century in the industry. Simpsons, set in a Georgian house in leafy Edgbaston, is for sale at £850,000. Andreas, now 67, founded the restaurant 31 years ago, setting a new standard for dining in the […]
