The Raby Hunt near Darlington was the biggest winner in yesterday’s (snooze-worthy) 2017 UK and Ireland Michelin Guide announcements, with chef James Close bagging his second star. Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in Bray returned to three-star status, having been omitted from last year’s guide during its residency in Melbourne. There were no other multi-star promotions this […]
Michael O’Hare, the chef behind The Man Behind the Curtain, which has drawn a capacity crowd of foodies to Leeds since opening two years ago, has been signed up to launch a new restaurant at the National Football Museum in Manchester later this year. The Rabbit in the Moon, named after an Asian folk tale, […]
Chef Scott Hallsworth will usher in the new sake-brewing season at his Chelsea izakaya (Japanese gastro-pub) Kurobuta when he prepares a multi-course dinner in front of diners to serve with sake pairings on Saturday. October 1 is the traditional first day of production in Japan’s thousand-year-old rice-brewing industry, and has more recently been declared World Sake Day. […]
Slow Food Week, surely one of the world’s most enjoyable pressure-group campaigns, kicks off on Saturday (October 1) and can be celebrated in gastronomic style at some of Britain’s best restaurants. High-profile chef supporters include Raymond Blanc of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons near Oxford and London’s Richard Corrigan, Brett Graham (The Ledbury) and Angela Hartnett […]
David Muñoz, the flamboyant Spanish chef who won three Michelin stars in four years for his Madrid restaurant DiverXO, is to open his long-promised London offshoot, StreetXO, in Mayfair in November. He aims to “shock, surprise and delight” diners through both the theatre and flavour of his Asian-inspired fusion dishes. StreetXO will be set up […]
Restaurateur and design guru Sir Terence Conran, brushing aside the fact that he turns 85 next week (October 4), will unite his two areas of expertise with the opening of his latest restaurant at the new Design Museum in Kensington on November 24. Parabola restaurant, which is named after the shape of the roof in the […]
The kitchen at Jamavar London, an upmarket Indian restaurant opening in Mount Street, Mayfair in mid-November, will be headed by Rohit Ghai, formerly of Gymkhana – a good indication that it will be more than simply an outpost of a successful international brand. There are five branches in India, where Jamavar is the signature restaurant of the ultra-luxury […]
⦿ Jay Rayner in The Observer truffled out Umezushi, a 14-seater Japanese restaurant under a Manchester railway arch, with cooks from Korea, Spain and the Czech Republic, which he found “really very good indeed and, at the price, a bit of a miracle”. “Slices of wagyu, sensitively flamed, almost justify the £10 price tag that accompanies […]
D&D London is offering 1,000 three-course set meals for £10 each on Wednesday October 5 to celebrate its 10th birthday. Telephone bookings open on Monday September 26 with a limit of four guests per booking, and are offered on a first-come-first-served basis at 10 of the group’s London restaurants, including Le Pont de la Tour, Sartoria, […]
⦿ September 27 will see the opening of Phil Howard’s new venture, Elystan Street, in the backstreets of Chelsea. The site will be remembered by some as Tom Aikens – another chef who had a Michelin 2-star pedigree and struck out on his own in this quiet backwater, a short stroll from The Conran Shop […]
