Lake District chef Simon Rogan has extended his tiny ‘chef’s table’ London outpost – Aulis, off Dean Street in Soho – so it now seats 12 guests at a time, up from eight. The venue reopens next Tuesday, 30 May, with a new lounge for pre- and post-dinner drinks as well as a new natural stone counter. […]
Obsession, the annual festival of gastronomy hosted by Northcote, the Lancashire hotel and restaurant, broke all records in its 20th edition which ended on Sunday with a spectacular six-course feast from host chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen and London-based guest chefs Monica Galetti of Mere and Monica Nieves of Sabor (pictured left to right). Northcote’s restaurant, private […]
Obsession, the midwinter festival of chefs hosted since 2001 by Lancashire boutique hotel and restaurant Northcote, at Langho near Blackburn, has announced an all-British Isles line-up of 15 guest chefs for next year’s event, which runs from January 21 to February 4. This year’s festival was cancelled due to the pandemic, which has also made […]
Simon Rogan will begin opening his restaurants on July 4, but Roganic and Aulis in London have not been given an opening date and staff will remain on furlough. His Lake District restaurants, L’Enclume, Rogan & Cor and Aulis, will reopen on Saturday, July 4, while Henrock – which opened last year and overlooks the […]
Multi-award winning chef Simon Rogan has announced a new restaurant. Henrock, described as a new “informally elegant” venture (we’re not sure what that means either), will be set within Linthwaite House in the Lake District, and will open in October. With views over Lake Windermere, Henrock will follow Rogan’s practised and precise culinary style, using […]
Fera at Claridge’s will close at the end of the year, Harden’s can confirm. Final service with take place on New Year’s Eve. Most recently, the Michelin-starred restaurant has been overseen by head chef Matt Starling, who took over from Simon Rogan in 2017. Rogan, of Roganic and L’Enclume fame, signed a ten-year deal in 2014, but […]
Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Great Milton “I couldn’t take any risks for my wife’s 50th birthday weekend… so I placed my trust in Raymond’s impeccable hotel and restaurant… result: perfection!” M Blanc’s “magnificent”converted Elizabethan manor boasts a “dream location” in a picture-book village south of Oxford and, “if you want to spoil someone with […]
Clos Maggiore WC2 “You feel that love is in the air!” at this “very special” destination (yet again the survey’s No. 1 choice for a romantic occasion), especially in “the inner sanctum” – “the lovely glass-roofed courtyard at the back, hung with blossom, a roof that opens in fine weather, and with an open fire […]
Brat E1 Expected spring 2018 Tomos Parry, formerly of Kitty Fisher’s, is opening his first restaurant in Shoreditch in Spring 2018. His Welsh heritage and Basque cooking styles will influence the food, which will be cooked over an open fire. Brat is a colloquial term for turbot, we are told, and not a reference to […]
After his return to London in October with the launch of Aulis – an eight-seater, £250 pp chef’s table in a secret Soho location – Simon Rogan has announced that his 2011-3013 pop-up Roganic will reappear as a permanent fixture in Marylebone next year. Roganic takes up residence in Blandford Street on the former site of L’Autre […]
