Squatters targeting venues closed down by celeb chefs have this week ended their occupation of London sites formerly run by Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White. Police evicted as many as 400 squatters from Mr White’s ‘steak, pizza and gin house’ in Leicester Square, which closed down in February after a two-year run. Another group […]
Chef Marco Pierre White has revealed a Hollywood movie about his life, starring Russell Crowe, is in the works. The biopic will chart MPW’s life from budding star to three Michelin-star winner. Crowe will play the restaurateur in his later days. MPW said: “I have just signed the deal. Russell has written the script, Russell’s […]
Marco Pierre White is still a restaurateur and, yes, still opening restaurants. The Leeds-born celebrity chef now has eight brands, the most prominent of which is his Steakhouse & Grill chain, which, defying criticism, remains a feature across the UK. This time, the former Michelin-starred chef is launching a Steakhouse Bar & Grill at the […]
Pierre Koffmann and Marco Pierre White are to work together once more – decades after Marco Pierre White left the mentorship of the French gastronome. The pair will open a new restaurant at the Abbey Hotel, Bath – named Koffmann & Mr White’s – in September. It will be a brasserie, serving food from the […]
It was perhaps never a bastion of culinary excellence, but news that The Criterion has gone into administration and faces an uncertain future is still sad tidings. It is, after all, “possibly the most beautiful restaurant in London”, with its extraordinary neo-Byzantine dining room. But despite the beauty and romance of this theatreland stalwart, which couldn’t […]
MW Eat (Masala World) has relocated its Chelsea stalwart Chutney Mary to St James’s, which opens in its new home today (1 June). Masala Grill has replaced the “aristocrat of the Indian world” at its old King’s Road site following a major refurbishment. Chutney Mary moved to St James’s Street (the former site of Marco […]
We’re offering one lucky Harden’s reader (and their guest) the chance to try the newly launched Wheeler’s Rib Room & Oyster Bar at Threadneedles Marriott Hotel. Enjoy a bottle of chilled champagne, chosen by the restaurant’s sommelier, as you indulge in a platter of oysters for two. Marco Pierre White’s latest venture, housed within the City hotel’s […]
The former site of Chutney Mary on King’s Road has been transformed into MW Eat’s newest venture – Masala Grill. Opening today (5 May), the restaurant is a more casual affair than its predecessor serving street food snacks alongside grilled fish and meat, curries, biryanis and thalis. The restaurant group will relocate its Chelsea stalwart […]
News reaches us that the one-time enfant terrible of British cooking, Marco Pierre White, is to reanimate his Wheeler’s brand in London by moving into the City’s Threadneedles Hotel in March. We wouldn’t like to speculate as to why the face of Knorr stock cubes is choosing to shack up with yet another hotel group […]
