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Tom Cenci has stepped down as executive chef at Duck & Waffle after more than six years in the role. Cenci’s departure follows that of former chef director Dan Doherty, who left in April to concentrate of media work and his new Marylebone pub, The Royal Oak. Cenci announced the decision on Instagram, where he […]
Stevie Parle has confirmed his southern Italian restaurant, Rotorino, is to close. The chef said he is going to “focus on other projects”. The exact closing date is currently unknown, though the restaurant is taking bookings until April 9. The move follows the closure of The Dock Kitchen, Parle’s first restaurant. Parle said: “I’ve been running […]
Japanese restaurant chain Curry House Coco Ichibanya has opened its first London restaurant. The launch follows Filipino fried chicken giant Jolibee and Taiwanese dumpling house Din Tai Fung. Coco Ichibanya has more than 1,000 restaurants in Japan and another 150 throughout South East Asia and the US. The site opened on December 12 on Great […]
Tom Kitchin opened The Bonnie Badger, a new pub with rooms, on Wednesday this week. It comes just a month after the launch of his casual dining concept Southside Scran in Edinburgh. Harden’s first mentioned news of The Bonnie Badger in May. It’s just a 30-minute drive from the capital in the village of Gullane on […]
Marylebone Food Festival will return for a second year in 2019, celebrating the area’s restaurants, cafes, wine bars, and food shops. The event, a partnership between two property companies, aims to cast a spotlight on the increasing ‘culinary depth of Marylebone’. Just a handful of local restaurants in our guide include Trishna, L’Autre Pied, Roti Chai, and Picture. […]
Former pop-up TÁ TÁ Eatery is to open a nearly, possibly permanent site in Old Street. The restaurant left Borough Wines in Kensal Rise some time ago, and has since been without a home. The European, Japanese fusion food concept has seen widespread success after launching in multiple temporary sites across London, and has now found […]
Soho institution Quo Vadis has announced the latest lineup for its ‘& Friends: 2019’ series. Approaching its third year, chef patron Jeremy Lee has invited another round of fellow chefs, representing their respective restaurants, to cook with him. The last 12 months saw the likes of Tommy Banks of the Black Swan, Tom Brown of […]
Grace Dent for The Guardian visited yet another home-from-home seaside location, this time in Kent; where she had to invent a new term for the “imperfectly perfect” (so much so that she wanted to “ditch the review to protect it from idiots”) type of restaurant she found there – the “Snuffly-Ligget”. It’s a “small, 26-seat, […]
Staff, including head chef Gary McDermott, are understood to have walked out of the Pentonbridge Inn just before service on Friday. The restaurant with rooms in Carlisle, Cumbria, was forced to close and hasn’t opened since, according to The Caterer. McDermott replaced Jake and Cassie White in September 2018. The couple had launched the pub […]
Chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton has revealed plans for a new 16 cover restaurant in Mayfair. H.O.M.E, which is a working title, will sit next to Atherton’s flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social. The site is currently being rented out by Atherton’s company to pop up ventures, but will soon be revamped and turned into […]
