Two upscale Scottish restaurants, Boath House in the Highlands (pictured) and Tom Kitchin’s Kora in Edinburgh, have announced their closure in January as the hospitality industry struggles in the face of difficult economic conditions. Boath House (pictured), a Georgian mansion near Nairn, northeast of Inverness, was launched in April 2022 as a ‘bohemian retreat’ by […]
Star Edinburgh chef Tom Kitchin is opening a new restaurant, Kora, on the Bruntsfield site formerly occupied by his bistro Southside Scran, which closed down in 2020 after barely a year’s operation – a victim of both flooding and the pandemic. Named after the classical goddess of spring and agriculture, Kora opens appropriately this spring and […]
Tom Kitchin has been accused of manhandling his staff and “presiding over an environment of harassment”, The Times has reported. A report said “two former members of staff claim to have seen him and senior members of his team punch and drag chefs by their collars when frustrated with their pace of work at his […]
Tom Kitchin opened The Bonnie Badger, a new pub with rooms, on Wednesday this week. It comes just a month after the launch of his casual dining concept Southside Scran in Edinburgh. Harden’s first mentioned news of The Bonnie Badger in May. It’s just a 30-minute drive from the capital in the village of Gullane on […]
Tom Kitchin and team will today open Southside Scran, a new restaurant in Edinburgh. Southside Scran appears a more relaxed alternative to Kitchin’s “outstanding” fine dining flagship, though will stay true to the chef’s commitment to Scottish produce and seasonal cooking. The restaurant’s focal point will be a rotisserie grill, upon which great hunks of […]
Tom Kitchin is to host a special four-course dinner at The Game Bird at The Stafford London. Kitchen will bring his seasonal Scottish food to the hotel, cooking classic fish and game dishes on September 27. On the menu is Orkney scallops baked in their shell, roast halibut with Jerusalem artichokes and black truffle, and […]
Tom Kitchin, the chef behind Leith’s “outstanding” dining destination The Kitchin, has announced plans to open a jauntily-named new joint – The Bonnie Badger, a restaurant-with-rooms in the village of Gullane on Scotland’s East coast. Just a stone’s throw from Muirfield golf course, and a 30-minute drive from Edinburgh, the hotel – which dates back to […]
Claude Bosi’s Mayfair foodie temple, Hibiscus, is the latest high-end restaurant to cut its opening hours in order to give staff more time off and improve consistency. The chef/patron has cut Tuesday and Wednesday lunch services. Hibiscus is now open for lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and for dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Last […]
Scottish chef Tom Kitchin has followed in the footsteps of a number of fellow high-end restaurateurs by cutting staff hours to improve employees’ quality of life. His Edinburgh restaurants the The Kitchin (pictured) and The Castle Terrace are to close for a week every three months to give staff time off, thereby retaining talent for […]
TV chef Hardeep Singh Kohli has opened Scotland’s ‘first craft beer and curry bar’ in Leith’s thriving culinary scene. VDeep restaurant takes over the former home of The Vintage pub in Henderson Street. The neighbourhood already boasts a number of much-lauded restaurants, including Tom Kitchin’s The Kitchin (which provides “real fireworks” according to Harden’s reporters), […]
