In one of the autumn’s most ambitious new openings, chef Matt Abé this week launched his first solo restaurant – Bonheur by Matt Abé – in the former premises of the iconic Le Gavroche in Upper Brook Street, Mayfair. Sydney-born Matt has spent almost 20 years working for Gordon Ramsay, most recently as chef-patron at his […]
Le Gavroche, arguably the most important restaurant in Britain of modern times, is to close down next January after 56 years. The announcement was made by Michel Roux Jr (pictured in 1989 with his father, Albert), who took over as chef-patron in 1991 (coinciding almost exactly with the launch of our first edition, Harden’s London […]
A museum and library dedicated to the late chef Michel Roux is to be opened next to The Waterside Inn, the classic French restaurant he founded 50 years ago in the village of Bray, on the River Thames west of London. Michel and his older brother Albert became dominant figures in British gastronomy with the […]
