Restaurateurs Neil Rankin and Handley Amos are to join SALT, a “partnership and experience” agency specialising in food & drink, to head up its new restaurant division The Pepper Collective. The collective has brought together a team of people with a common purpose: “to work with like-minded souls, businesses and enterprises to create new hospitality […]
The Dorchester hotel group has appointed Tom Booton as head chef of its famous Grill restaurant. Booton, at just 26, is the youngest chef to hold the position in the restaurant’s 88-year history. Booton has joined from Alyn Williams at the Westbury in Mayfair, where he held the same position, and will be spending the […]
Alyn Williams has left The Wild Rabbit, his “Cotswolds gem” in Kingham. He was chef patron. Williams has returned to London full-time in order to focus on his London restaurant, Alyn Williams at The Westbury. The chef opened his eponymous Mayfair spot in 2011, and won a star the following year. He later won the […]
Ana Ros, newly crowned as top female chef by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants (see Harden’s report), will be cooking in London on June 14. Ros, chef-patron of Hisa Franko in Slovenia, heads the line-up at Chefstock, the annual festival hosted by Alyn Williams at his restaurant in Mayfair’s Westbury Hotel. Williams said this year’s Chefstock will […]