Tom Sellers of London’s Restaurant Story is launching an outpost in Cornwall this summer, taking over the venue near St Ives occupied until last year by Adam Handling’s Ugly Butterfly. Named Mor, Cornish for ‘sea’, the new restaurant promises a seasonal menu that exploits the region’s best products, including dayboat fish and grass-fed Cornish beef. […]
Hot-shot chef Tom Sellers opens his latest restaurant tomorrow (1st April) – Story Cellar off Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden, a counter-and-basement spot inspired by Parisian brasseries. As the name suggests, it is an offshoot of his celebrated flagship, Restaurant Story near Tower Bridge, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year with a makeover and a […]
Booking is now open for the 2023 edition of Obsession, the gastronomic festival hosted each year by Northcote hotel and restaurant near Blackburn in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. The event runs over 17 nights from January 20 to February 5, and features 20 leading chefs. Star guest chefs include Portugal’s Ricardo Costa of the Yeatman Gastronomic […]
Adam Byatt of Trinity restaurant in Clapham heads the list of guest stars who will cook one-off meals at Gusbourne winery’s chef series this summer. Each chef will cook a single lunch and dinner to be served in the garden room at The Nest, the visitor centre overlooking Gusbourne’s vineyards at Appledore, on the edge […]
Nottingham-born chef Tom Sellers is to help develop a new venture at Trent Bridge cricket ground. Sellers will work with Nottingham County Cricket club to launch a contemporary British restaurant housed on the sixth floor of the stadium’s main stand. The restaurant, currently unnamed, is expected to open in March, according to The Caterer. “I’ve […]
This weekend (31 March) Tom Sellers closes his “modernist culinary temple” Restaurant Story ahead of an extensive month- long interior renovation, the first since its launch in 2013. Re-opening on 8 May, the redesign will not only transform the look and feel of the restaurant, but will coincide with a new menu concept and a […]
While his “edgy, modernist culinary temple” Story by Tower Bridge undergoes a complete refurb, celebrated chef Tom Sellers will launch a banqueting-style pop-up in Bermondsey from 4-22 April. Merry Men is designed to give an immersive dining experience in the heart of SE1. The name is an homage to Tom’s Nottingham upbringing and Robin Hood’s band of […]
Pembrokeshire-born chef Tom Simmons is opening his first restaurant in London this spring, with a focus on the best Welsh ingredients. Simmons, 28, appeared on MasterChef – The Professionals in 2011 and has worked with Tom Aikens and Mark Sargeant. His new self-named venue, with partner Lois Thomas running the front of house, is in the […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
Tom Sellers, the chef behind two Sunday Times top 100 restaurants (Story in Bermondsey and the Lickfold Inn in West Sussex), has launched a new venture in South Ken today (19 May). Restaurant Ours takes over the former site of The Collection (RIP) on Brompton Road. Accessed by a dramatic 30-metre ‘catwalk’ entrance, which was originally […]
