The Sustainable Restaurant Association has launched a summer campaign to encourage the development of healthy relationships with food in families and communities. The focus for July is cooking and eating with the family, involving children making more positive food choices, while the focus in August is on communities and the universal right to good, nutritious […]
A sustainable Japanese restaurant using seasonal Sussex ingredients called Fumi has opened in Brighton, from the team behind Wolfox roastery and cafés. The team also opened plant-based Japanese restaurant Kusaki nearby in 2021. Founder Fabio Lauro said: “At Fumi we want to bring everything that is good about the beautiful countryside of Sussex together with […]
One of Devon’s best-known gastropubs, The Swan in Bampton, has closed down in the face of escalating costs and the burden of debt left over from the pandemic. Landlord Paul Berry and his wife Donna, who have run The Swan for 13 years, will now concentrate on their efforts on the restaurant Spelt, also in […]
Hot on the heels of restaurateur supreme Jeremy King announcing his comeback venture The Park – a modern take on the European grand café tradition launching next April opposite the entrance to Kensington Gardens – comes news that he is in “advanced talks” over two sites in the West End: one of them directly opposite […]
Peckham’s Forza Wine, which started out as a supper club 11 years ago, is to take over a large terrace at the National Theatre as the South Bank arts centre consolidates its push to become a serious drinking and dining destination. The 160-cover venue is scheduled to open on the theatre’s northwest terrace in September. […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 23 July 2023. ***** The Evening Standard “This Balearic beauty is a grill on fire.” Jimi Famurewa is the first of our regular critics to review Mountain, “Tomos Parry’s spanking new, instantly thronged successor to the Michelin-starred […]
The team behind highly rated Edinburgh restaurant Timberyard is to open a new wine bar and restaurant in a distinctive late-Victorian pub in the city’s Abbeyhill district. Montrose House (pictured), in Montrose Terrace, is scheduled to open this autumn. Timberyard director Jo Radfordsaid: “In a way we will be opening a venue with two very […]
South London chef Dom Taylor has opened an ambitious Caribbean restaurant in the West End’s luxury Langham hotel as the prize for winning a televised competition hosted by Michel Roux Jr. The Good Front Room opened the day after the result of Channel 4’s Five Star Kitchen was announced, taking over the Langham’s Palm Court […]
One of London’s most ambitious and accomplished new restaurants of recent years, Oxeye in Nine Elms, has closed down, founder Sven-Hanson Britt announced in a long and heartfelt Instagram post this week. Several years in the planning, Oxeye opened in late 2021 and was awarded the highest score of 5 for its cooking in this […]
One of the world’s most famous and traditional dining rooms, Simpson’s in the Strand, is to auction off the silver carving trolleys that have symbolised its unique role in British culinary history for more than 170 years – a move that signals the end of an era. The sale of thousands of items, including crystal […]
