One-time righthand man of Simon Rogan, Mark Birchall, sets out to open his own restaurant-with-rooms after nine years at L’Enclume in Cartmel. The former exec chef of Rogan’s celebrated former smithy plans to reopen Moor Hall – a Grade II-listed gentry house in Aughton, Lancashire – in early autumn 2016, after complete redevelopment. The mid-16th Century building will […]

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A second restaurant overseen by Cliveden House executive chef André Garrett will launch at the impossibly grand Thames-view country house this Friday (8 April). The Astor Grill is named after the Astor family, who owned the house from the early 1900s. Located in the Duke of Westminster’s former stables, adjacent to the main house, the space will accommodate 38 with an additional seasonal terrace with 40-covers. […]

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