Well-known Scottish chef Kevin Dalgleish is to open his first restaurant as proprietor later this month in his home city of Aberdeen – Amuse, in Queen’s Terrace. Kevin trained at The Savoy in London under the great Anton Edelman, and returned to northeast Scotland to head kitchens at Ackergill Tower then Aberdeen’s Chester Hotel. He […]
Harrods is boosting its credentials as a food and drink destination with the opening over the next next couple of months of two new high-end imports from France – Paris pâtissier extraordinaire Angelo Musa closely followed by a Champagne bar from Moët & Chandon. Musa is executive pastry chef at the opulent Hotel Plaza Athénée, […]
StreetSmart, the restaurant sector’s charity tackling homelessness, raised almost £700,000 in its annual pre-Christmas fund-raising drive last year, despite the dampening effect of Covid on diners’ activity. The charity has now raised more than £11 million since its foundation in 1998, but supporters who celebrated its success at Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell this week […]
A new multi-level restaurant concept is scheduled to open this month at the edge of Cambridge’s ancient market, in the building occupied for almost 50 years by well-known Italian restaurant Don Pasquale. Market House will incorporate a restaurant, an all-day cafe, a wine bar, a food lab and flexible meetings rooms over five floors of […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 8 May 2022. ***** The Guardian “Spring Saturday lunches don’t get much better than this.” Grace Dent finally ventured to Tallow in Kent, just outside Tunbridge Wells; owners Donna and Rob Taylor “left the excellent, […]
Mayfair’s venerable Guinea Grill is running a pop-up supper club on Thursday and Friday nights through the summer in a former Pizza Express across the road. Upstairs at 23 will offer a changing set menu celebrating seasonal British produce. The Grill, which specialises in high-quality British steaks, is tucked away behind the Guinea pub in […]
Peterborough fine-dining pub the Chubby Castor of the Fitzwilliam Arms is to add a new casual dining venue to its main restaurant. The Yard will focus on seasonal local ingredients, including produce grown on-site in raised beds. Chef Adebole Adeshine (pictured), who has worked for Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing, took over the Fitzwilliam Arms […]
Roti King, the legendary Malaysian curryhouse near Euston station, has opened second site in the Battersea Power Station development overlooking the Thames. The new branch is under an arch of the Victoria station railway bridge, where its neighbours include the Battersea Brewery and a boutique cinema. This salubrious setting is in stark contrast to the […]
West Country seafood impresario Mitch Tonks has opened a new outdoor fish and craft beer bar in Plymouth, adjacent to his Rockfish restaurant on Rope Walk, overlooking Plymouth Sound. The Sardine Bar serves fried fish and chips and curried mushy peas, alongside Mount Bay sardines from the range of tinned local seafood Tonks introduced during […]
Two longstanding Oxford eating institutions have experienced contrasting fortunes following recent changes in trading conditions: Gee’s (pictured), which has occupied a Grade II listed Victorian greenhouse in wealthy North Oxford for 40 years, is doubling its capacity following a million-pound makeover, while the Nosebag in the city centre has closed down permanently after 51 years. […]
