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Mark Jordan, whose cuisine has always inspired hugely enthusiastic reports in our survey, is to leave the Ocean Restaurant at The Atlantic Hotel in Jersey after almost 14 years. Will Holland will take over as executive chef from October 2017. Will joins The Atlantic from his position as head chef at Coast Restaurant in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He brings experience […]
Staff at the Affinity group of restaurants and bars (Princess Victoria, Dickie Fitz, Lady Ottoline and Henry Root) were stunned to discover the company had closed without warning this week. All four premises have been shut down, including their websites, with one Princess Victoria employee tweeting: “Unfortunately we have been closed down as of 7 am […]
Ahead of its official launch on 6 July, Camden’s new Gabeto cantina is offering a soft launch deal with 50 per cent off food from Thursday 29 June-Wednesday 5 July. The new restaurant and bar is set inside Camden Market in a converted Victorian stable block. The soft launch discount is valid in the first-floor […]
Seafood specialist, pop-up caterers The Oystermen will officially open their first permanent mooring, The Oystermen Seafood Bar and Kitchen, on Monday 4 July in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. With just 26-covers we predict a few queues, but when there’s six oysters and a glass of bubbly for £10 on the menu, 3-5 pm every day, it should be […]
London’s appetite for stoking ‘cues and smoking meats remains undiminished by time or the increasing abundance of BBQ joints in the capital. Just this week Neil Rankin announced temper City, and the last 12 months have seen the launch of MeatUp in Wandsworth, temper Soho, The Stoke House at Victoria’s Nova development, Texas Joe’s Slow […]
Hot on the smoky heels of temper Soho, comes temper City – the second venture from barbecue maestro Neil Rankin and business partner Sam Lee. The original temper opened in Broadwick Street in November last year to a string of plaudits from foodies and critics alike, including Jay Rayner who dubbed it one of London’s […]
When our reporters praise Bray’s Hind’s Head it is because the picturesque pub is “thankfully not over-Hestoned” but The Sunday Times’s Lisa Markwell has the opposite problem – she can’t find any evidence of Blumenthal’s pseudo-scientific cooking at all, nor the influence of his trusty lieutenant Ashley Palmer-Watts – and it leaves her disappointed… “I […]
Mark Poynton, chef-patron of Cambridge’s Alimentum, is set to launch a second venture – the White Horse in the Cambridgeshire village of Eaton Socon is expected to open on 6 July. The 100-cover, Grade II listed pub has undergone a complete refurbishment. His first restaurant Alimentum provoked a bit of a Marmite response in last […]
Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale’s Yorke Arms hotel – one of the UK’s best dining destinations and a top scorer in our annual survey for many years – has been put up for sale for a reported £1.75 million. The 16 bedroom “old coach house/shooting lodge which enjoys a fabulous, picturesque setting” near Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, was bought by chef […]
The Guardian’s Marina O’Laughlin is back in her native Glasgow, but the locals may not want to hear what she has to say about Dennistoun’s Bilson Eleven. “How dare I? How dare I be critical about a small, new indie restaurant, its name an elision of the chef/owner’s two sons (and the number of tables they, […]
