Seafood specialist Prawn on the Lawn has closed its London venue to concentrate on its Cornish operations, while highly rated Stockport outfit Cantaloupe is switching to a new concept called Bar Caput. Prawn on the Lawn has been one of the capital’s most in-demand restaurants at two different addresses near Highbury Corner since its 2013 […]
Chef Paul Ainsworth and his wife Emma are this month relaunching the St Enodoc Hotel at Rock, across the Camel estuary from their flagship restaurant No 6 in Padstow, as their Cornish mini-empire grows to Rick Stein-like proportions. The couple took over the 21-bedroom hotel – best known for hosting Nathan Outlaw’s superlative seafood restaurant in […]
A new family-run venue is opening in Padstow – but this time it is not from the Rick Stein clan of Seafood Restaurant fame, but from locally-born chef Thomas Hine, who launches his first cafe and restaurant today, PL28 Cafe. PL28, on Broad Street, will operate as a daytime cafe serving breakfast and lunch before switching […]
A new seafood restaurant has opened in Padstow, Cornwall, from chef Alex Aitken, who started his working life as a trawlerman. The Jetty, in the Padstow Harbour Hotel, will focus on local Porthilly oysters, Padstow lobsters and fish caught by day boats. A self-taught chef, Alex made his name with Le Poussin in Brockenhurst, which […]