Former Birley Clubs operations director Simon King and Heston Blumenthal chef Matt Larcombe have teamed up to launch The Victoria in Oxshott, Surrey – reflecting a post-pandemic trend towards bringing Central London-quality cuisine to the commuter-belt suburbs. The pair met while working together on the launch of the Crown, the Fat Duck’s gastropub offshoot in […]
American ‘raw food’ celeb chef Matthew Kenney is to open a plant-based restaurant in Selfridges before Christmas. Adesse, which means ‘to arrive’ in Latin, will occupy the former site of the Corner Restaurant on the second floor, adjacent to the women’s designer galleries. Kenney runs 40 restaurants around the world, from New York to Bahrain […]
Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the art-world power-brokers behind the Frieze global art fairs, are taking their first steps in hospitality with the opening of Toklas, a Mediterranean-style restaurant in the Strand that shares a site with their Frieze headquarters. Drinks are being served on the terrace this week to coincide with this year’s edition […]
Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 10 October 2021. ***** The Evening Standard Jimi Famurewa did us all a favour and reviewed Salt Bae’s London newcomer, saving his readers the trouble and hundreds of pounds in the process. He was even […]
Almost 200 UK restaurants are participating in this year’s Action Against Hunger “Love Food, Give Food” campaign, under which diners are encouraged to add £1 to their bill until the end of October, to help fight hunger both in Britain and around the world. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 265million people at […]
Chef Josh Eggleton is to reopen the Pony and Trap in Chew Magna – one of the foundation stones of Bristol gastronomic scene – in a new guise and a new name in the spring, as a wedding venue, cookery school and restaurant to be known as the Pony Chew Valley. The gastropub has been […]
UK Hospitality has called on members of the public to join hotels, restaurants, pubs and cafés in lobbying their MPs to put pressure on the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to lock VAT at 12.5% for the tourism and hospitality sector in the autumn budget on October 27. VAT was slashed from 20% to 5% in July last year […]
Björn Frantzén, the Swedish superstar chef whose Stockholm flagship was this week pronounced No 6 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards, is to open his first UK restaurant in Harrods next year. Last month Frantzén came second in another international contest, the Best Chef awards. Ashley Saxton, general manager of restaurants at Harrods, said it […]
The Hart Brothers will open a branch of their smash-hit Barrafina tapas bars along with two other venues in the new Borough Yards development adjacent to Borough Market early next year. It will be the first foray south of the Thames for Barrafina, the highest-rated Hispanic in the most recent Harden’s survey and the only […]
Chef Sven-Hanson Britt will finally open his long-planned first restaurant, Oxeye, on October 21 in the newly developed Embassy Gardens zone at Nine Elms, near the US Embassy and the new Northern Line Tube extension. Small in dimensions, with six tables serving a maximum of 16 guests per meal, Oxeye is big in ambition, serving […]
