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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 […]
Dirty burger institution MEATliquor will take a new direction with the opening next month of a sports bar in Covent Garden under the moniker BLOODsports. The new venue is expected to offer the standard MEATliquor menu led by the signature ‘Dead Hippie’ burger, against a backdrop of pool tables and big screens showing a mixture […]
Two upscale Scottish restaurants, Boath House in the Highlands (pictured) and Tom Kitchin’s Kora in Edinburgh, have announced their closure in January as the hospitality industry struggles in the face of difficult economic conditions. Boath House (pictured), a Georgian mansion near Nairn, northeast of Inverness, was launched in April 2022 as a ‘bohemian retreat’ by […]
Harry’s, a new restaurant combining fresh local ingredients with “timeless” French cuisine, launches next week at the Gallivant boutique hotel behind Camber Sands, near Rye in East Sussex. Two Harrys are behind the project – hotelier Harry Cragoe and chef Matthew Harris, who spent 28 years at Bibendum in Chelsea and is the brother of Bouchon […]
Our weekly roundup of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 26th January 2025 London Standard Fantômas, Chelsea David Ellis welcomed the return of Chris Denney, formerly of Notting Hill’s 108 Garage – “a chef of endless imagination, uncommon talent and an explorative, expert palette”. Typical of his new menu […]
Seafood specialist chef Tom Brown will unveil a new restaurant at The Capital hotel in Knightsbridge later this year, returning to the kitchen where he made his London debut a decade ago as head chef for Nathan Outlaw. Originally from Cornwall, Tom ran the restaurant for two years before leaving to set up his own […]
London tapas group Camino has acquired two branches of rival Hispanic operation Ibérica, with the Farringdon bar to be relaunched under its new flag next week and the Victoria branch following suit next month. The remaining three Ibérica branches – in Canary Wharf, Marylebone and Leeds – all closed after the company fell into administration in […]
A new restaurant relying entirely on Scottish ingredients and British wines opens next week in Edinburgh from chef Henry Dobson and his Japanese wife Akiko. Moss, in Stockbridge, marks a debut for Henry, a former sound engineer who trained as a chef at Ballymaloe House in Cork and Noma in Copenhagen. He built much of […]
A historic East End pub will reopen at the end of February after a three-decade break – lovingly refurbished, and with a stand-alone restaurant upstairs. The Grade II-listed Knave of Clubs, in Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, dates back to 1880 and served traders from the adjacent Club Row bird and pet market. After closing as a […]
Rick Stein is offering a menu at 1975 prices to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. The menu features starters and desserts priced in pence, with shellfish soup at 50p, ragout de coquilles St Jacques et turbot a la crème de basilic at 65p and raspberry bavarois for 30p, while the […]
