Margate’s development as a restaurant hotspot on the Kent coast continues apace, with the opening of two new restaurants in quick succession. The Wellington opens today in the Old Town from chef Billy Stock and his partner Ellie Topham (pictured) in a mid-Victorian former coaching inn, originally the Duke of Wellington. The couple say they […]
The Bridge Arms near Canterbury has relaunched under new ownership with a more casual direction as a village pub, after four years under Daniel and Natasha Smith, the chef couple who run the nearby Fordwich Arms. The couple have passed the lease on to their friend Elliot Hewitt, a former manager at the Fordwich who […]
Ryan Jacovides is expanding his Pomus group in Kent with the launch of a new restaurant in Folkestone next month, just weeks after opening a mini-spinoff kiosk called Pom on Margate Harbour Arm. He opened the original Pomus in Margate a year ago. The new restaurant, wine bar and bottle shop has taken over the […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 26th May 2024 The Guardian Brett, Glasgow Grace Dent found “comfort food with the chef’s foot fully on the gas” at this modest-seeming wine bar – the younger sibling of feted Cal Bruich nearby – which “holds a fig leaf […]