The kitchen at Pied à Terre became a waterbath-free zone last week when founding chef Richard Neat returned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fitzrovia gastronomic temple. “I’m a dinosaur – I don’t like gadgets,” Neat declared as he led current head chef Andy McFadden and his team through a menu of his greatest hits, […]
Why should the newbies get all the attention? Three of London’s longer-serving restaurants are giving themselves (and their diners) a pat on the back as they notch up milestone anniversaries. Pied à Terre, David Moore’s “perennially excellent” (Harden’s Survey) foodie mecca in Fitzrovia, celebrates its 25th anniversary with the return of Richard Neat, its founding partner who […]
On the former site of the Hart brothers’ basement tapas joint Fino, comes a new Uzbek restaurant backed by international restaurateur Sanjar Nabiev and industry consultant Charles Oak (whose credits include Pied à Terre, Gleneagles and many more). The new Fitzrovia venue, Samarkand, is named after Uzbekistan’s city on the Silk Road – the ancient […]
Soho’s “fun and funky” free-range rotisserie chicken spot Clockjack has expanded into the City with a new restaurant kitchen dedicated to delivery. Feeding off the phenomenon that is Deliveroo, the venture (backed by David Moore of Pied à Terre et-al) has no front-of-house operation and simply offers Square Mile businesses and residents the chance to have freshly […]
Since Pied à Terre chef Marcus Eaves first announced his surprise move from one of the capital’s foremost foodie temples, to spearheading the ‘urban casual’ dining at The Shard’s eyrie Oblix, we have wondered who would replace him. Now we know that sister restaurant L’Autre Pied‘s chef Andy McFadden has taken the reins at David Moore’s “plush” Fitzrovia […]
[huge_it_slider id=”5″] French haute cuisine, the wellspring from which culinary magic seems to flow across the world, has been sidelined of late in favour of rusticity, simplicity and (let’s face it) dirty great burgers. But can the classics ever truly go out of style? Surely we all just need a gentle reminder of France’s culinary […]
David Moore and his business partner Sean Martin are to open a second One Sixty Smokehouse outpost – this time in a decidedly more central location. The original launched in March last year in West Hampstead’s West End Lane, but the new restaurant will take over the site of a former Slug & Lettuce site […]
Rather seems long-term ‘serious’ restaurateur David Moore may have hit upon a vulgarly successful mass-market concept. The man behind Pied-Ã -Terre and L’Autre Pied is on the cusp of announcing two further sites for his US-style smokehouse, One Sixty, reports Caterer & Hotelkeeper. Since its opening in West Hampstead in April, Moore says that One Sixty has […]
