Prolific young Edinburgh chef Tomás Gormley will next week unveil his ambitious restaurant Cardinal, an “intimate” spot on the edge of the city’s New Town serving a 13-course tasting menu. It is the third new restaurant from Tomás in four years, following Heron in Leith and Skua in Stockbridge. But these two were in partnership […]
A chef and a sommelier with impressive pedigrees have teamed up to open an ambitious ‘chef’s table’ restaurant in Edinburgh this spring. Eòrna – barley in Gaelic – will have no staff, with the founding pair providing a “pared-back, intimate, yet sophisticated dining experience”. Chef Brian Grigor (left in photo) ran the kitchen of Number One at […]
• Andrew Fairlie at The Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, awarded number 1 spot in Harden’s Top 100 Best UK Restaurants, followed by Evelyn’s Table at The Blue Posts, London, and Waterside Inn, Bray. • South West is strongest dining region after the South East with Cornwall as the county with the most Top 500 listings. • […]
Andrew Fairlie, one of Scotland’s most celebrated and respected chefs, died on Tuesday aged 55. Fairlie was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 and had been fighting the illness ever since. In November, he stepped down from his acclaimed restaurant at Gleneagles after he became too unwell to continue working. The Scotsman’s parents announced the news […]
Chef Andrew Fairlie is stepping down from his his restaurant at Gleneagles, the only in Scotland to hold two Michelin stars. Fairlie was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, and since then has undergone chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, but doctors have confirmed the brain tumour is now terminal. As a result, the chef announced he will […]
Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Great Milton “I couldn’t take any risks for my wife’s 50th birthday weekend… so I placed my trust in Raymond’s impeccable hotel and restaurant… result: perfection!” M Blanc’s “magnificent”converted Elizabethan manor boasts a “dream location” in a picture-book village south of Oxford and, “if you want to spoil someone with […]
Clos Maggiore WC2 “You feel that love is in the air!” at this “very special” destination (yet again the survey’s No. 1 choice for a romantic occasion), especially in “the inner sanctum” – “the lovely glass-roofed courtyard at the back, hung with blossom, a roof that opens in fine weather, and with an open fire […]
The UK’s top 100 restaurants are revealed in Harden’s Best UK Restaurants 2018 published today – the country’s most comprehensive restaurant guide available in bookshops, with approximately twice the number of entries as The Good Food Guide. The guide hails London’s The Araki as the country’s best restaurant. The experience is “world class” and, at £385-a-head, […]
French haute cuisine, the wellspring from which culinary magic seems to flow across the world, has been sidelined of late in favour of rusticity, simplicity and (let’s face it) dirty great burgers. But can the classics ever truly go out of style? Surely we all just need a gentle reminder of France’s culinary prowess? Well, […]
Mark Twain may have thought that golf “spoiled a good walk” but when it comes to selling a multi-million pound hotel the sport is apparently a great advertisement. Ever since Gleneagles in Auchterarder hosted the Ryder Cup last year its owners Diageo have received “numerous expressions of interest” from parties looking to purchase the place […]
