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Foxlow is soon to be no more. Hawksmoor’s neighbourhood steak chain will cease trading on Friday June 28, the company has announced. The group shuttered its Soho restaurant in April this year, and just three months later, the two remaining sites, in Clerkenwell and Balham, will go at the end of the month. Hawksmoor launched […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 9 June 2019. AngloThai at Counter Culture, London SW4 “It’s testament to how much I want to eat Chantarasak’s food that I’ll schlep down here to this ghetto of Zara-clad Freddies and Livvys and sit on a petrol-fumed pavement table watching an unending […]
After eight years and one Michelin star, Mikael Jonsson’s Chiswick restaurant Hedone has closed. Last service was on June 1. The closure is a sad one. While Hedone wasn’t perfect, it was an inspiring passion project of broad acclaim and ex-lawyer (and Paleo diet follower due to his allergies) Mikael Jonsson’s devotion to sourcing incredible […]
Angela Hartnett has plans to take her casual and buzzy Cafe Murano concept to Bermondsey. Currently chef-patron at Mayfair’s Murano, Hartnett has two spin-off Cafe sites in Covent Garden and St James’s. Now, the star chef is hoping to add a third Cafe Murano, and a fourth in the title group, south of the river. […]
Food stylist and Life Kitchen founder Ryan Riley launched his first cookery school for people with cancer on Tuesday 4 June. Riley, whose mother Krista died of lung cancer in 2014, set up the Life Kitchen charity to help people having chemotherapy. To date, he has been hosting pop-up events at restaurants such as Duck […]
Mehdi Amiri has been named head chef at Eckington Manor. The chef joins the Worcestershire restaurant after dividing the last 18 years between Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, the Fat Duck, and Swinton Park Hotel. He will replace joint head chefs and spouses Sue and Mark Stinchcombe. He told The Caterer: “I’m really looking forward to […]
The Oxford Cultural Collective has announced a new series of food talks at Carousel restaurant. Migrations: all our voices will discuss how migration has helped propel Britain’s food culture, and how the restaurant industry has benefited from diversity and learning. The new series will celebrate the positive role migrants have played in food, and how […]
Great British Menu finalist Dan Fletcher has been appointed head chef at 28 Market Place, a new West Country restaurant from ex-Soho House director Ben Crofton. Set to open in Somerton, this autumn, the restaurant will feature a modern British-European menu which will make use of the county’s best produce. Fletcher is to join 28 […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics from the week ending 2 June 2019. The Sea, The Sea, London SW3 Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times has “stumbled across the living definition of the word “precious”: a seafood restaurant, a fishmonger and a champagne bar in — where else? — Chelsea”. From the people behind […]
Barullo, the City of London’s new Spanish restaurant launched by Victor Garvey in March, has closed just two months after opening. The chef told Harden’s he departed the restaurant for personal reasons in April and was unaware the restaurant had closed until seeing the news on social media. Garvey ceased his role by mutual agreement […]
