Longstanding Brighton restaurant Gingerman heads a list of notable restaurants around the country that have announced their closure this week – most of them citing financial headwinds for the decision. The other venues which have called time include rooftop restaurant Climat in Manchester, ultra-local Chapters in Hay-on-Wye, fried chicken specialist Mollis in Nottingham and 104 in […]
Nottingham chef-entrepreneur Nichola Thompson is opening her second private dining venue, Chapter 2 – a follow-up to Table 47, which regularly has a four-month waiting time for bookings. Neither is a traditional restaurant for walk-in customers: instead, they offer pre-booked dining for parties of various sizes, with bespoke or tasting menus and open-kitchen cooking as […]
Acclaimed Nottingham Japanese skewer-inspired restaurant Kushi-Ya is moving to larger new premises in the city centre next week, with co-head chef Simon Carlin reassuring fans that it will be “same vibe, just more space“. The new address is in Enfield Chambers, down an alleyway off Low Pavement, following eight years in Long Row West. The […]
Nottingham dining institution World Service has announced its closure after almost a quarter of a century. It will shut its distinctive red door for the last time on Saturday 3 August – the 24th anniversary of its opening. Set in 17th-century Newdigate House, which it shares with the Nottingham Club, World Service has been on top […]
Nottingham chef Louisa Ellis, a past winner of MasterChef: The Professionals, has launched a ‘food and event-focused’ project in a former Methodist church in the city. Destination 105, in Lady Bay’s Trent Boulevard, does not operate as a conventional restaurant. Instead, it hosts one-off ‘dining experiences’ ranging from tasting menus, three-course menus and Sunday dinners […]
Popular Nottingham Italian restaurant Sexy Mamma Love Spaghetti is set to open a second branch south of the city centre, close to Trent Bridge cricket ground. The business has taken over the prominent corner site occupied for 30 years by the Connaught House gift shop in Tudor Square, in the affluent suburb of West Bridgford. […]
High-flying Nottingham restaurant Alchemilla has cut its staff, reduced its menu and issued a plea for customers to return as it struggles for survival in tough trading conditions. “We need you,” the restaurant said in an email. “The current economic crisis has taken a severe toll on our ability to stay afloat and continue creating […]
Highly rated Nottingham Indian restaurant Masala Junction is to reopen on Monday, 31 October, less than three weeks after closing down – apparently for good. The surprise reprieve came about when the owner of another prominent Indian restaurant in the city, Amita Sawhney of MemSaab, came forward with a rescue offer. Naj Aziz, who founded the […]
Nottingham chef Laurence Henry is to take the role of chef-patron at a new restaurant as the centrepiece of a £1 billion redevelopment in the city next spring. Henry, who won MasterChef: The Professionals at the age of 25 in 2018, has spent two years planning his first venture at Canal Turn, a three-storey waterside […]
The celebration of Chinese New Year and the dawning of the Year of the Monkey is just around the corner. This year the movable lunar festival begins on Monday 8 February, although festivities in London (the biggest outside of China) will start in earnest on Valentine’s Day. If you’re planning to welcome the Year of […]
