The Sustainable Restaurant Association shares tips on how restaurants can support more sustainable consumer choices by adjusting menu language Building a sustainable menu Restaurants have both the power and the responsibility to serve food that is nutritionally beneficial and environmentally friendly – and of course, tastes good, too. Designing menus with this in mind will […]

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A group of restaurant industry veterans have launched the Jupiter Restaurant Scholarship, a new program which aims to attract and develop young talent in the hospitality industry. Created by Neville Abraham, founder of Groupe Chez Gerard, with Michael Gottlieb of My Kinda Town and Smollensky’s, Deborah Jelffs also of Groupe Chez Gerard, John Lederer of Brasserie […]

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ROTR was on holiday last week – here’s a two-week summary of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 6 August 2023. ***** The Evening Standard On 26 July, Jimi Famurewa reviewed Gengelly’s at The Earl of Derby of Telegraph Hill, a “handsomely restored Victorian drinking hole on a south-east London backstreet […]

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A new high-end steakhouse specifically aimed at women is launching in Warrington this autumn, as a challenge to the genre’s traditional red-blooded macho image. Pendergast’s, in the Cheshire town’s cultural quarter, will serve plant-based dishes including celeriac ‘steaks’ and chalk-stream trout alongside a selection of prime cuts of beef, in a chic environment with no […]

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A new neighbourhood restaurant bringing “sexy but healthy” food to Barnes opens next week. The Farmer’s Mistress has taken the White Hart Lane site long known for its branch of Annie’s, and more recently the short-lived Camile Thai. Founder Joanna Gascoigne, who already has a Farmer’s Mistress branch in Battersea, has transformed the interior of […]

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