Dean and Anna Parker have reopened their highly rated Italian restaurant Celentano’s in Glasgow’s Arthouse Hotel, six months after losing their previous premises in the city’s Cathedral Square. Celentano’s has won consistent praise in the Harden’s guide in recent years for “getting it just right” with an Italian menu that puts an original twist of […]
Chef-patron Robin Gill is to open a new all-day cafe and aperitivo spot called Bar Brasso next door to his flagship restaurant Darby’s, near the new US Embassy in Nine Elms. The space has been operated until recently as Darby’s Next Door, and will offer pastries and coffee in the morning, bigger dishes at lunchtime […]
Raymond Blanc is to be honoured next month at a dinner to mark the 40th anniversary of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, cooked by prominent chefs who have passed through its kitchen. The six-course dinner, on 16 April, will be hosted by Robin Gill at Darby’s, his restaurant near the new American Embassy in Vauxhall, with […]
Irish-born chef Robin Gill is to open a tiny Parisian-style wine bar in Brixton Market Row this month. Bottle & Rye will have just 28 covers and focus on minimal-intervention wines from across Europe, back up by a menu from ex-Lino chef Ben Hughes-Green. “We love how these little gems are embraced by the city,” […]
It’s musical restaurants on the Pavement at Clapham Common, where Lina Stores of Soho, the veteran deli-turned-restaurant, is planning to open in the site vacated last year by The Dairy (RIP), the acclaimed launchpad for chef Robin Gill’s group. Lina is also set to replace Andrew Wong’s Kym’s in the City’s Bloomberg Arcade. Founded in […]
Chef Alex Harper and chef restaurateur Robin Gill are reportedly planning to work together on a number of food projects at a new luxury London hotel. In a CODE Hospitality bulletin this week, an announcement said: “A central London project launching this summer. “The Dairy’s Lewis Wright will run front of house at the nature-led […]
News reaches us of dinner for an excellent cause. Chef John Lawson will be hosting a dinner alongside former mentor Raymond Blanc OBE and fellow protégés Robin Gill and Ollie Dabbous in aid of the Brain Tumour Research Campaign. Taking place at Lawson’s restaurant, Food, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the brain cancer survivor will cook with his fellow […]
This summer the unique dining experience that is London in the Sky will return to the capital. Previous years have proved so popular that organisers have decided to add two extra sky-high tables so more diners can book this daredevil al-fresco eating experience. Three Sky Tables will simultaneously be suspended 100ft in the air above the South […]
Leela Palace’s “stunning” Jamavar in Mayfair (winner of Top Newcomer at the 2017 Harden’s London Restaurant Awards) will host five guest chefs – Claude Bosi, Aggi Sverrisson, Sat Bains, Robin Gill and Judy Joo – who will go head to head and put their stamp on the kulcha, a classic Indian stuffed bread. In light of Rohit […]
