A museum and library dedicated to the late chef Michel Roux is to be opened next to The Waterside Inn, the classic French restaurant he founded 50 years ago in the village of Bray, on the River Thames west of London. Michel and his older brother Albert became dominant figures in British gastronomy with the […]
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 […]
A brasserie-style venture from Michel (the elder) and Alain Roux is slated to open within a new residential complex in Taplow in autumn 2018. Roux at Skindles will be overseen by Alain, and will be a world away from the lavishness of its sister restaurant, the “absolutely impeccable” Waterside Inn in nearby Bray. The brasserie […]
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, […]
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 […]
Never mind dining like a queen – this weekend dine like The Queen in honour of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday. Although Elizabeth II’s birthday was actually back in April, ceremonial celebrations are now in full swing. We’ve rounded-up all the UK restaurants where our longest reigning monarch has dined (or rumoured to have dined) in […]
Former Heston Blumenthal protégé Christopher White has left the Fat Duck to open his first solo venture The White Spoon in Cheltenham on 18 September. His new restaurant will be inspired by his time with the Merlin of molecular gastronomy but offers a more ‘approachable and laid-back’ (and considerably cheaper) menu. Having worked at both the Fat […]
