Chef Andrew Sheridan opens his latest venue today – a New York-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar in Liverpool’s Ropewalks area named Manhattan-style after the corner it sits on, Seel & Slater. The launch follows an astonishingly quick transformation of Gary Usher’s Wreck Bistro, which served its final meals last Sunday, having been acquired by Andrew’s Open […]
The Netherwood Estate’s restaurant Sow in Worcestershire has closed down with the departure of Andrew Sheridan’s Open Restaurant Group (ORG) – which, in another move, has acquired Gary Usher’s Wreck Bistro in Liverpool. ORG ran Sow for a little over a year, taking over a notably attractive space (pictured) that has a checkered history – originally […]
Influential Liverpool chef Paul Askew and his son Harry have found a permanent home for Barnacle, their ‘Scouse brasserie’ – in a grand Grade II-listed building formerly occupied by the Royal School for the Blind in the city’s Georgian quarter. Named after Paul’s seafaring father, Captain ‘Barnacle Bill’ Askew, the restaurant champions produce grown on […]
A former Mersey ferry docked on the Liverpool waterfront is to open as restaurant, bar and events space Daffodil next week following a £3.5m makeover. Formerly MV Royal Daffodil, the ferry plied the route from Liverpool to the Wirral for more than 60 years and is now moored in Canning Dock, close to the Royal […]
Glaswegian restaurateur Nico Simeone is suing a landlord for £4.4million arising from the 2022 closure of the Liverpool branch of his Six by Nico after flood damage. In papers filed to the High Court, lawyers say repeated floods and mould in the waterfront building on Liverpool’s North John Street left the restaurant “malodorous and unhygienic” […]
Chef-entrepreneur Gary Usher, who has used record-breaking Kickstarter campaigns to fund the expansion of his northwestern group Elite Bistros, has turned to crowdsourcing in a new direction – this time to find a new name for his Liverpool restaurant, Wreckfish. In a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), Gary has appealed for suggestions to […]
Cage fighter ‘Meatball Molly’ McCann is to open an Italian-inspired kitchen and deli in her native Liverpool next month. Polpetta – ‘meatball’ in Italian – will be in the Baltic Market street-food centre and serve classic Italian comfort food. Molly has made her name as one of Britain’s top women mixed martial artists, competing in the […]
Rising star Liverpool chef Livia Alarcon has launched her first solo project – La Bistroteca in the city’s Baltic Market. Now 26, Livia came to prominence with her rapid promotion to head chef at Maray at the age of 21. She toured Europe with Jason Atherton on the BBC show Chefs’ Brigade and turned down the […]
Mould-breaking chef Marc Wilkinson is shifting his restaurant Fraiche from Merseyside to a new rural location in Shropshire, where he will resume service this summer. He announced the move in a Facebook post, ending five years of uncertainty over the future of Fraiche. Marc – hailed as “a genius” in the 2023 Harden’s guide – opened the […]
Liverpool chef Daniel Heffy, who has returned from a sojourn in Stockholm with a new repertoire of Nordic influences, is to launch a restaurant in his hometown next Thursday (23 March) – named appropriately Nord . Daniel’s introduction to cooking came in galleys as a teenage sea cadet, and he went on to train under legendary […]
