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Grace Dent in The Guardian rejoiced in the “sheer chutzpah” of chef Alex Bond at Alchemilla even before she ate a bite of the “veg-centric” menu. Bond has turned a huge, “crypt-like space… an abandoned coaching house” that had “sat unloved and festering for more than 100 years” into “a capacious, open brushed aluminium kitchen” […]
Burger chain Gourmet Burger Kitchen has become the latest restaurant brand to face speculation as to its future. GBK, which is owned by South African company Famous Brands, is believed to have appointed Deloitte to help reduce rents at sites, and possibly close some locations, according to The Sunday Times. The move may result in a […]
A top Chinese restaurant in Oxford was forced to close down after a customer found a cockroach in their food. Sojo, on Hythe Bridge Street, was investigated by the city council’s environmental health unit following a complaint. Local paper the Oxford Mail said officials “found a heavy infestation of cockroaches including live insects running around […]
Sweetings, the seafood restaurant that has served fish and oysters in the City of London since 1889, only opens for weekday lunch and doesn’t take reservations. The restaurant goes back way further that 1889, by the way. Its first incarnation was as John S. Sweetings, Fish and Oyster Merchant in Lad Lane, Islington, in 1830. Since […]
M Restaurants has announced ambitious plans for a fourth site in London. The group has revealed a new restaurant at Newfoundland in Canary Wharf is taking shape, with the venture set to open in 2020. The Newfoundland Quay is a 220-metre high residential skyscraper currently under development on the Isle of Dogs. The waterside location is […]
The Typing Room’s Lee Westcott has teamed up with Peta Darnley of the Netherwood Estate to launch Pensons, a new rural restaurant marked to open in January 2019. Pensons will be set within the grounds of the Netherwood Estate on the borders of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. It’s Westcott’s first move out of London since closing […]
St John staff are to offer their wisdom to socially minded restaurants in London as part of a new support initiative. Chefs and front of house crew at Fergus Henderson’s restaurant will take part in the St John Pass It On scheme, which will run in conjunction with sustainability food and farming group London Food […]
Harden’s has today released the final shortlist for this year’s definitive London Restaurant Awards, which takes place on 10 September in the ballroom of The Langham, London. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 28-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers. This year 8,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the categories specified by Harden’s. […]
In The Guardian, Jay Rayner was searching for somewhere easy to eat near the Royal Albert Hall, and stumbled upon a gem in Tozi, a Venetian cicchetti (small plates) spot that’s attached to the Park Plaza Hotel (he wasn’t aware of this when he booked). It’s unmistakably ‘London’ – “an echoing space of huge white-washed […]
In his first interview after his well-publicised difficulties with Jamie’s Italian, Jamie Oliver gave access to the FT this week to present his case about what went wrong at the troubled group. His most gripping revelations surround the day he suddenly learnt that he was going to have to write a personal cheque for £7.5m […]
