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The former senior sous chef at Rick Stein’s Seafood restaurant in Padstow is moving to west Cornwall to oversee the dining room at the Old Coastguard, on the seafront in Mousehole. Jamie Porter has been appointed to his first head chef role at the 15-bedroom hotel restaurant, which hangs on the hilly entrance to the […]
Saiphin Moore, who with husband Alex founded the still burgeoning Rosa’s Thai, and more recently, Lao Cafe, will set up a Cantonese restaurant at St. Katherine Docks Marina. Hoh Sek will be a casual ‘grab-and-go’ brand focused on noodle dishes during the day, and a 40-cover full service restaurant in the evenings, with a mix […]
The Plough Inn, Cobham, is to host its Rarebreed Music Festival for a second year, pooling BBQ dishes and live music on Saturday May 25. Tomorrow (Saturday 24), the Surrey pub will welcome a number of musical acts in its “reconditioned terrace”, where floral displays have been introduced. Dishes include a smoked pulled pork flatbread, […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 19 May 2019. The Coconut Tree, Cheltenham “Eating well is an expression of normality.” Jay Rayner for The Observer was in the Cotswolds, seeking out normality in the form of Sri Lankan street food, as a way of re-establishing what’s good after the […]
The Clink Restaurant at HMP High Down in Sutton, South London, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The restaurant was founded a decade ago by the Clink Charity and is this month marking ten years of “breaking new ground” in helping to rehabilitate prisoners and prevent re-offending. Founder Al Crisci said at an event last week […]
Indian-inspired street food concept Baba G’s is to open its first permanant site in Camden. Co-founders and partners (in both business and their personal life) Alec Owen and Liz Selway appeared on the last series of the Beeb’s restaurant show Million Pound Menu, and have finally found the backing to launch a fully fledged site. […]
The team behind Albert’s Schloss in Manchester is to launch a new site, Albert’s Schenke, in Liverpool later this year. Restaurant group Mission Mars have seen success at Schloss, which reporters describe as “epic fun at very reasonable prices”, a sentiment echoed by a glowing review by Jay Rayner a while back. Like the Manchester […]
Stork, a new west African restaurant from debutante restaurateurs Michael Adjovi Kalu and Nadina Grigoras, has opened in Mayfair. The restaurant is one of the more original-sounding openings so far this year, playing on its founders’ roots: “Stork is a fresh concept that puts the spotlight on fusion dining at its finest – modern British […]
Dinings SW3, the contemporary Japanese in Chelsea presided over by chef Masaki Sugisaki, will launch Kurabu, a bar and Izakaya space above the main dining room downstairs. The new menu will be conceived of “elevated Japanese-inspired street food and cocktails”, and will be as much a late bar as a restaurant. Kurabu translates as ‘club’ […]
Coqfighter, the fried chicken pop-up that has been operating at Boxpark in Shoreditch and Croydon, has secured a site in Soho and will be opening later this month. The street food traders will launch a permanant restaurant on the aptly named Beak Street, with space for 40 covers. Coqfighter will bring its fried chicken bao, […]
