Jersey-born chef Joe Baker is to open a wood-fired grill restaurant celebrating the island’s seafood and produce in St Helier, the capital, later this month. Pêtchi – which means ‘try to catch a fish’ in Jèrriais, or Jersey French – will occupy the first and second storeys of the historic Liberty Wharf building overlooking Liberation […]
Brimming with more British tradition than you could shake Penny Mordaunt’s sword of state at, the Coronation saw tens of thousands of revellers descend upon the capital to take part in the crowning of King Charles III. Whilst the eyes of the world were on Westminster, the hospitality industry across the UK was anticipating a […]
Joe Warwick is a man who’s had his fingers in lots of pies in the restaurant scene over the years. In recent years, he’s lent his hand to a number of popular restaurant projects including SoLa in Soho and more recently, the lauded Bouchon Racine. Harden’s Insider has now learned that Warwick is joining Cubitt […]
Former Bonhams chef Tom Kemble has relaunched Chalk restaurant on the Wiston Estate winery, north of Worthing in West Sussex. Tom worked at Faviken in Sweden and Hedone in London before making his name as chef at Bonham’s auction house in New Bond Street in 2015. He progressed to The Pass at South Lodge hotel […]
Our summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 19 February 2023. The Observer “Inventive, geeky and superb.” Jay Rayner visited Matsudai Ramen, the “first dedicated ramen shop in Wales”, which arrived in Cardiff late last year, from an “unexpected source” James Chant, “a one-time musician, tour […]
Former L’Enclume chef Dan Cox opens his ultra-sustainable restaurant Crocadon in St Mellion, Cornwall, today – the culmination of a five-year project that has transformed a 120-acre farm in the Tamar Valley. The 25-cover restaurant with an open kitchen occupies an old barn on the farm, where Dan (pictured, above) has introduced rare-breed cattle and sheep […]
High-profile Edinburgh chef Mark Greenaway is to launch two new restaurants in the same Lake District hotel next month. A self-named restaurant and the more informal Brasserie Thirty Seven will open at the Haweswater Hotel, near the M6 motorway on the edge of the Lakes. Mark is best known for Restaurant Mark Greenaway on Edinburgh’s […]
Smart Australian café brand Daisy Green will open its biggest venue yet in Bishopsgate on the edge of the City of London next Wednesday (19 October). Paradise Green is inspired by the high-rise holiday resort of Surfers Paradise on Queensland’s Gold Coast, where co-founder Prue Freeman spent time as a student. The 10,000 sq ft […]
A Californian-style taco outfit based in southeast London opens its first permanent venue today, after four years of pop-ups, residencies and market stalls. Taca Tacos, from founder Thorne Addyman, is in Arch 12 at Deptford Market Yard. Thorne launched the venture in 2018 following a research trip to the US West Coast and Mexico, initially […]
A tiny, 10-seater Japanese restaurant where husband and wife chefs serve a no-choice “omakase” menu opens in Mayfair tomorrow. Roji is the first venture from the couple, Tomoko Hasegawa and Tamas Naszai, who met while working at another Japanese restaurant, Tokemiete. Roji means alley, appropriately for a restaurant that is tucked away in a courtyard […]
