Former Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston exec chef Ashley Palmer-Watts has emerged as the mystery third man behind new Soho pub The Devonshire, which opens today. The long-planned venture close to Piccadilly Circus is on a prominent corner of Denham Street, originally a pub from 1793 and more recently a Jamie’s Italian. It is […]
Celebrated chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, the long-time right-hand man to Heston Blumenthal who launched Dinner by Heston at the Mandarin Oriental, is to make his comeback to restaurants with a launch in Surrey next year. His new project is the transformation of what was The Garden in Cobham, a village on the southwestern edge of London […]
On Saturday 3 February 2018, for one day only, the team from The Mandarin Oriental’s Dinner by Heston Blumenthal will be in residence at the renowned chef’s celebrated gastropub, The Hind’s Head in Bray. The five course menu is £95pp and includes Dinner’s famous meat fruit. And Harden’s is offering two free tickets to the lunch sitting […]
On Saturday 3 February 2018, for one day only, the team from Knightsbridge’s Dinner by Heston Blumenthal will be in residence at The Hind’s Head, Bray. The five course menu is £95pp and includes Dinner’s famous meat fruit – a dish that even the restaurant’s detractors love. Chef Director Ashley Palmer-Watts and Head Chef Jonny Glass […]
When our reporters praise Bray’s Hind’s Head it is because the picturesque pub is “thankfully not over-Hestoned” but The Sunday Times’s Lisa Markwell has the opposite problem – she can’t find any evidence of Blumenthal’s pseudo-scientific cooking at all, nor the influence of his trusty lieutenant Ashley Palmer-Watts – and it leaves her disappointed… “I […]
Remember the days when all airports had to offer in the dining department was Burger King? Maybe a café serving sandwiches and what might be considered coffee, if you were lucky. Well now, in the steps of Gordon Ramsay, Mr Molecular Gastronomy himself, Heston Blumenthal, has launched an outpost at Heathrow Terminal 2. The Perfectionist’s […]