StarChefs, a new food platform founded by chef-turned-businessman David Swann, has launched “to connect people across the country with their favourite chefs”. It is another food box enterprise, partnering with chefs to produce ready meals, meal kits, and to provide specialist ingredients across the UK. StarChefs’ first product comes courtesy of Andrew Wong and has […]

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Chef Andrew Wong’s latest restaurant Kym’s is to open this September in The City’s new Bloomberg Arcade. The steel and glass culinary arena, designed by Norman Foster Partners, is Bloomberg’s new European HQ. Already in situ are brands such as Shake Shack, Homeslice, Koya, and the new and lavish Brigadiers, which Harden’s previewed in depth […]

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Jay Rayner in The Observer enjoys a knowing attempt to bring the street inside at Borough Market’s El Pastór (from Barrafina founders, the Hart bros)… It’s “a fun space of bare brick and shiny metal and colourful murals; a knowing attempt to bring the street inside”, with “tequilas in worryingly large servings” and  “pork shoulder, marinated and […]

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The celebration of Chinese New Year and the dawning of the Year of the Monkey is just around the corner. This year the movable lunar festival begins on Monday 8 February, although festivities here in London (the biggest outside of China) will start in earnest on Valentine’s Day. If you’re planning to welcome the Year […]

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