Rick Stein is to open a seafood restaurant in landlocked Winchester. The 70-cover establishment, expected to open its doors this autumn, will focus on ‘fresh fish, simply cooked.’ Stein’s first UK opening outside Cornwall appears to be something of a family project. Stein’s business partner is his former wife Jill, and the pair’s three sons […]
Tom Kerridge is to open a second gastroboozer in the picturesque Buckinghamshire town of Marlow this November. His new venture, to be named The Coach, will apparently be a ‘pared-down’ counterpart to his much-lauded Hand & Flowers (pictured). It will be an all-day dining affair with a much more affordable menu than his original gastropub (well, […]
Brasserie Blanc’s sister business, The White Brasserie Company (nul points for imagination there), has embarked on an aggressive scheme to open 20 gastropubs in the next three years. The Hare in Old Redding, Harrow, is the first of three openings planned this year, the others being The British Queen in Orpington (expected later this month) and […]
Paul Ainsworth – the chef and restaurateur whose fish is considered by Harden’s reporters to be the best in Padstow – is to open his first hotel next spring, reports Caterer & Hotelkeeper. The six-bedroom Padstow Townhouse will add to Ainsworth’s coastal empire, which he runs alongside his wife, Emma. It will open on the […]
New York, Zurich, London and, er, Somerset. Here’s a new sort of ‘restaurant’ opening. Glossy international contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth, whose vast London showrooms are in Savile Row, has just set up its fourth outpost, in a former Somerset cowshed. This is not any old cowshed, of course. Reconfigured by Parisian architect Luis Laplace it is […]
Twenty-four hour dining is still surprisingly rare in London, but more all-night bars and restaurants have been springing up of late. Polo Bar, a round-the-clock spot near Liverpool Street, is the latest place to smarten up its act. After a major refurb, the establishment has unveiled two new floors with an all-night café and ‘secret’ […]
A few lucky burger lovers have the chance to grab a freebie at the newly opened Burger Craft, at the White Ferry pub in Pimlico. In celebration of its launch, the restaurant is giving away 350 of their signature patty and bun, the Juicy Bastard, this week 7-13 July. The first 50 customers to walk […]
Another slice of Americana is set to hit our shores in the form of US pizza chain, Project Pie. And where has this company chosen to plant its first European restaurant? Why Dundee of course! But Project Pie isn’t stopping there, Scottish domination is on the agenda with five more sites planned over the next […]
Most 78-year-olds are more likely to visit a branch while collecting their pensions, but Albert Roux intends to turn an Essex Post Office into a fine dining restaurant. The French-born chef and restaurateur (father of Michel Roux Jr) has submitted plans to transform Brentwood’s old Post Office into a high-end eating establishment. Roux praised the […]
