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 […]
Gareth Ward’s restaurant Gwen is staying open after all – with Peter Sanchez-Iglesias of former Bristol superstar Casamia taking over as head chef at the end of May. The surprise announcement followed just a couple of weeks after the revelation that Gwen, in Machynlleth, was to close with the departure of chef Corrin Harrison and his […]
Luke Selby this week hosted the first in a series of intimate ‘chef’s table’ dinners that will preview dishes planned for his new restaurant that launches at Palé Hall near Bala in north Wales later this year. Luke joined the luxury hotel on the edge of Snowdonia as chef partner in February after serving as […]
Highly regarded Pembrokeshire smallholding restaurant Paternoster Farm will this summer transfer its operations to a remote waterside pub on the western tip of Wales. The outfit was launched by former divorce lawyer Michelle Evans and her husband Leum during the Covid pandemic as a farm shop selling home-reared meat and pastries from their milking parlour […]
Cardiff diners have two interesting new options for 2026 following the Christmas launch of natural wine bar and restaurant Ogof in Canton and next week’s relaunch by chef Tom Simmons (pictured) of his Pontcanna flagship Thomas as a more relaxed brasserie. Ogof has taken over the former site of Poca and La Cuina on King’s […]
Paternoster Farm, an off-the-radar restaurant near the western tip of Pembrokeshire, faces closure following the loss of its lease – just days after a glowing review in the Sunday Times brought it to national attention. The restaurant originated as a lockdown project during the pandemic, when self-taught chef Michelle Evans – a former divorce lawyer – opened a […]
Two high-profile rural restaurants have changed hands this week – Tyddyn Llan in north Wales and The Cottage in the Wood near Keswick – with a new guard of chef operators taking over in each case. At Tyddyn Llan in Llandrillo, Denbighshire, veteran chef Bryan Webb and his wife Susan are retiring after 22 years, having announced […]
Former Hedone head chef Lee Skeet is launching an oyster bar in Cardiff’s city centre this weekend, ahead of moving his tasting-menu restaurant Cora into the same venue next month. The oyster bar, Jackson’s, will be on the ground floor of the Duke Street Arcade, near Cardiff Castle, with the tiny 10-seat Cora upstairs. Cora […]
Gareth Ward of Welsh powerhouse Ynyshir is planning to open not one, but two new venues in the nearby market town of Machynlleth. The first will be an intimate wine bar/restaurant named Gwen in honour of his mother, which he hopes to follow up with a sourdough pizzeria next door. Gwen will take over the […]
Welsh ramen wizard James Chant, whose Matsudae Ramen start-up became a lockdown meal-kit hit and a pop-up phenomenon touring Manchester, Bristol and London, is to open his first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Cardiff early this summer. James, who had never worked as a chef, launched the business as a creative outlet three years ago after becoming […]
