Restaurant Orme in southwest Manchester is relaunching next week with a new pared-down approach, doubling back on its founders’ decision earlier this year to sell up and move on. Chef Jack Fields and his partner Rachel Roberts (pictured) have revamped the interior of the Urmston restaurant to reflect a more relaxed and social approach to […]

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Victor Garvey’s highly rated Californian-style restaurant SOLA has closed for two months while builders transform the interior, doubling its capacity. The four-year-old venue in Dean Street, Soho – hailed in the 2023 Harden’s guide as “one of London’s finest gastronomic experiences” – is scheduled to reopen “in time for Thanksgiving”, which falls on Friday 24 November. The […]

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Two longstanding Oxford eating institutions have experienced contrasting fortunes following recent changes in trading conditions: Gee’s (pictured), which has occupied a Grade II listed Victorian greenhouse in wealthy North Oxford for 40 years, is doubling its capacity following a million-pound makeover, while the Nosebag in the city centre has closed down permanently after 51 years. […]

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