Fresh off the furore around solo dining comes another headline grabbing restaurant drama. Last week Thomas Straker posted an image of the kitchen brigade at his eponymous Notting Hill restaurant, a move which drew swift criticism over the lack of diversity among his kitchen team. Takes and counter-takes were quick to pile up. We know […]
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 […]
How is business going generally, and how has the new restaurant at Canary Wharf been received? Business is good but everyone is sailing through choppy waters, so it feels like the hands need to be on the wheel making small adjustments to the course at all times and having people looking far ahead for calmer […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association explains why, for the hospitality industry, sustainability and nutrition must go hand in hand. “Human health and planetary health are deeply interconnected.” – WHO, 2021 The global food systems in place today are unsustainable. Modern agriculture has become both a deeply destructive driver of the global climate crisis, and itself a […]
Alex Dilling’s eponymous fine-dining restaurant located in London’s storied Café Royal Hotel announced last week that it would maintain a minimum spend for solo diners reflective of the cost of a dinner for two. At the same time the restaurant announced that the prices for dinner will increase by 11%. The furore generated around this […]
Released by the IPCC in March this year, the Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report provides a bleak inventory of the damage done to date and still to come. With temperatures already at 1.1˚C above pre-industrial levels, every part of the world is experiencing the consequences. The impact of this is felt disproportionately by the most […]
The London-based group behind some of the capitals best restaurants including Gymkhana, Trishna, BAO and Plaza Khao Gaeng are once again calling on emerging talent to join its ranks. Last year the group launched its first apprenticeship scheme and now JKS are calling on a fresh intake of recruits to join the program in September […]
This was a question asked and answered by The Sustainable Restaurant Association (The SRA) on June 19th, in a short but impactful film that screened at the World’s 50 Best Talks. With powerful voiceovers from chefs around the world – including Ángel León, Elena Reygadas and Ana Roš – the film emphasised the multi-faceted nature […]
Amidst continuing headwinds for the hospitality industry, a number of high end restaurants, particularly in London, are re-evaluating their prices. Whilst food costs remain high, restaurants are looking at their sales mix and have, in some cases, lowered their pricing in an effort to balance the books. First to capture a wave of PR by […]
One of London’s largest luxury restaurants HIDE will close their Above restaurant and amalgamate the two floors into a single offering. In an effort to maximise the business’s busiest periods of the day and to streamline overall operation, HIDE Above will no longer function as a separate dining space. Instead the ground floor a la […]
