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Helena Poulakka, who has worked with the likes of Pierre Koffmann, Pierre Gagnaire, and Gordon Ramsay, has been brought in by D&D London to shake things up at the consistently poor Skylon restaurant on the Southbank. Since 2015, Skylon has been offering diners terrific views over the Thames, but not much more. Puolakka, who until now […]
Chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is to open his first London restaurant. He’ll arrive at The Standard hotel next year. Sanchez-Iglesias, chef owner of the “magical” and “excellent” – though “expensive” – Casamia in Bristol, as well as the “superb” Paco Tapas in the same city, will open on the hotel’s rooftop restaurant in King’s Cross some time […]
Grace Dent paid a visit to York for The Guardian, and the new restaurant from Tommy Banks, “posterboy for British hospitality”, winner of The Great British Menu and chef-patron at the much-loved Black Swan at Oldstead. She declares Roots, in a vast converted Victorian pub York’s “new star attraction” – better even than the Jorvik […]
The scores are in… But rather than Craig Revel Horwood holding up a number on a wand, Michelin treated an all-star cast of chefs to a somewhat offbeat ceremony at London’s BFI IMAX on Monday of this week (the 1st of October). The awards were punctuated by lots of folksy chat, with much of the show […]
Chef Sat Bains has asked chefs to log off social media on October 10 in support of World Mental Health Day. Mental health is a hot topic in the restaurant industry and many in the trade are hoping to raise awareness of the difficulties the pressured industry can bring. At 10am, Bains – one of […]
Mayfair’s Met Bar – a venue where, back in the day, A-listers clambered over one another to push past the velvet rope – is to relaunch as a grill restaurant. The bar first opened in 1997 and Madonna, Patsy Kensit, Liam Gallagher, The Spice Girls, Cher, and Kate Moss were all regulars. Detail on the […]
Tim Siadatan’s “top drawer Italian”, with “terrific food done simply but superbly”, Trullo is returning to host its annual game feast on Sunday November 18. Dishes celebrate the restaurant’s relationship with its game supplier, the Dumnaglass Estate in Scotland, from which it sources its venison and game birds. Trullo has been working with Dumnaglass for four […]
Texture has been named this year’s UK winner of the international gastronomic sherry competition, the Copa Jerez. Head chef Karl O’Dell and sommelier Alan Bednarski saw off steely competition at a contest held in Cardiff on October 1. The bi-annual contest sees some of the country’s finest restaurants compete with three-course tasting menus designed specifically to […]
Sticks’n’Sushi has opened its eighth site in the UK. A big, striking new branch of the ever-expanding Danish chain launched on the King’s Road on October 1. The 220-cover site stretches across three floors, with bold, classically simple Scandi interiors designed by Copenhagen architects Norm. Downstairs is a private dining room with an open kitchen. […]
The Coconut Tree, which focuses on affordable Sri Lankan street food, is opening a third site in Bristol. The concept is one to watch having established itself already in Cheltenham and Oxford. The new 80-cover restaurant will start serving today (Friday October 5) on Gloucester Road, The Caterer noted in a listing. Expect dishes such as […]
