Emily Brightman has been appointed head chef at Murano by Angela Hartnett. Brightman joined the kitchen as a junior sous chef two-and-a-half years ago, having previously spent three years at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, where she was a senior chef de partie. She also undertook stages in New York: at three-Michelin-starred restaurants Per Se, and Eleven […]
‘From Sea to Table’A feasting dinner celebrating Native Lobster and sustainable seafood from around the British & Irish Isles.Tuesday July 16 Tickets are now on sale for this exclusive “From Sea to Table” banquet on Tuesday July 16 with one of Hospitality’s most famous names: Chef Richard Corrigan at his Piccadilly bastion, Bentley’s. As the […]
Harden’s has teamed up with Surrey’s The Clock House restaurant – where “every mouthful of the beautifully presented food is a joy!” – to bring our readers the chance to win a sumptuous seven course tasting menu for two. Created by the restaurant’s award-winning head chef, this gastronomic experience includes dishes like: Cured venison & hay custard; Brill, […]
Foxlow Soho, one of Hawksmoor Group’s relaxed, neighbourhood-style restaurants, is to close. The site will shutter on April 18, Big Hospitality reported. An email to customers said “the restaurant has been very successful in many ways… [but] we recently got a great unsolicited offer for the site and we decided to accept it… “We’re now […]
Cantor’s Food Store, Manchester Jay Rayner for The Observer found “Ottolenghi with a Manc accent” (and a pizza oven) in Manchester, at Cantor’s Food Store. It’s run by Eddy Cantor: the food “draws loosely on his Jewish roots”, and is “a happy place, where you could mislay an afternoon or a morning”. Although apparently it’s […]
Yorkshire’s capital achieves more top-scorers than Leeds, Newcastle or Oxford Harden’s 100 crowns Bristol’s Casamia as UK’s No. 1 dining destination A ropey year for Manchester as Edinburgh, Brighton, Bristol and Birmingham all outclass England’s second city The UK’s best towns for foodies, and top 100 Restaurants are revealed today in Harden’s Best UK Restaurants […]
Michelin 2019 Countdown It’s the final countdown (da da duh duuuh, da da da duh duh…) Yes, we only have to wait till next Monday at 4:30pm to start to hear the latest exciting news from Tyre Man HQ. Well maybe. Like all oracles, the Michelin Man moves in mysterious ways. Anticlimax is an ever-present […]
Clare Smyth tops London Restaurants Awards • Second female winner in as many years, as her team accept the award from last year’s winner, Marianne Lumb Harden’s unveiled the winners of its definitive 2018 London Restaurant Awards at a glittering gala ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of The Langham, London, sponsored by The Langham hotel […]
Brigadiers, London EC4 Jay Rayner departed Brigadiers smelling of “roasted spices, garlic and happiness”. It’s the latest opening from the “extremely professional” JKS Restarants, “one of the slickest outfits in the business” (Gymkhana, Hoppers, Lyle’s), located “within the dead-eyed Bloomberg arcade in the City”, and “feels like a direct response to the financial institutions surrounding […]
Definitely a game of two halves this week, with disappointments for TPB, the Evening Standard reviewers and Jay Rayner, and serious highs for Grace Dent and our intrepid reporters from The Telegraph and The FT. Jay Rayner in The Observer pondered the ” thin line between “That’s genius” and “What in God’s name were they thinking?”” […]