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    Gary Neville signs top chef for Stock Exchange
    April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 HardensBytes

    Footballer-turned-entrepreneur Gary Neville (left in picture) has signed chef Niall Keating (right) to open a new restaurant at the Stock Exchange boutique hotel in Manchester that he co-owns with Ryan Giggs. Called Tender, it will be the third attempt to occupy the impressively domed dining room since the hotel launched in 2019. Its predecessor, the […]

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    Ricki Weston takes the top job at Whatley Manor
    January 14, 2022January 24, 2022 HardensBytes

    Whatley Manor, the Wiltshire country-house hotel whose dining room – billed as The Dining Room – appears regularly on lists of Britain’s best restaurants, has promoted Ricki Weston to the role of executive chef following the departure of the acclaimed Niall Keating. Ricki has worked for some of the country’s most adventurous chefs, including Matt Gillan at […]

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    Dining with Lunatics in the Potteries
    November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 HardensBytes

    The most ambitious new museum restaurant in Britain opens next week at the World of Wedgwood, a visitor attraction and ceramics collection in the Staffordshire village of Barlaston. Lunar is directed by Niall Keating (above right), executive chef at Dorset’s Whatley Manor and a former Michelin Young European Chef of the Year and Great British […]

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    Young new chef for Whatley Manor
    November 23, 2016November 25, 2016 HardensBytes

    Niall Keating has been appointed to succeed Martin Burge as executive chef at Whatley Manor, running the Wiltshire luxury hotel and spa’s two restaurants. It is a first leadership role for 25-year-old Keating, who was born in Staffordshire and has worked under Sat Bains in Nottingham and Corey Lee of three-star Benu in San Francisco. He began his career […]

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