‘Farm to fork’ is a major dining trend of recent years, but Simon Rogan of L’Enclume – rated the UK’s no 1 restaurant in the 2024 Harden’s guide – takes it a step further with a series of events this summer that could be described as ‘folk to farm’. On selected Mondays and Tuesdays from June to […]
One-time righthand man of Simon Rogan, Mark Birchall, sets out to open his own restaurant-with-rooms after nine years at L’Enclume in Cartmel. The former exec chef of Rogan’s celebrated former smithy plans to reopen Moor Hall – a Grade II-listed gentry house in Aughton, Lancashire – in early autumn 2016, after complete redevelopment. The mid-16th Century building will […]
Wine, dine and then recline. It’s a perfect combination. After all, how often have each of us wished we weren’t facing a car ride or train journey home after a great meal? But ‘restaurants-with-rooms’ are more than just convenient, they are destinations. A way to get out of the city or to celebrate an occasion […]
Oh sure, we all read Fay Maschler’s latest love song to Nuno Mendes’s Taberna do Mercado or Marina O’Laughlin’s obliteration of her fallen idol Marco Pierre White at Wheelers of St James’s Rib Room, but here at Harden’s we care more about what ordinary diners think. To the end we’ve chosen our top five user reviews of […]
First the bad news – Cartmel’s estimable foodie mecca L’Enclume will close for one week on 7 December for a few quick improvements and staff hols (well, they deserve it don’t they?). But here’s the good news: During that week the focus will shift to Rogan & Co (also situated in the Cumbrian town of […]
Simon Rogan, the golden boy of British fine dining, will not renew his agreement with Robinson Brewery to run the The Pig & Whistle pub in Cartmel, Cumbria. The chef – who launched Fera at Claridge’s last year (to universal praise in our survey), on top of his already stellar northern outposts The French in […]
Simon Rogan – the chef whose first London venture (Fera at Claridges) rocketed straight into our top 100 restaurants in the UK for 2014 – is to open two new restaurants this year. Speaking at the Hospitality Show in Birmingham the restaurateur behind the acclaimed L’Enclume in Cartmel and The French at Manchester’s Midland Hotel said he was […]
Wine, dine and then recline. It’s a perfect combination. After all, how often have each of us wished we weren’t facing a car ride or train journey home after a great meal? But ‘restaurants-with-rooms’ are more than just convenient, they are destinations. A way to get out of the city or to celebrate an occasion […]
How odd. You might think that Claridge’s – foreign royalty’s London home-from-home – would be the very last place you’d find P R O G R E S S. But we think history may well record that their latest dining room, Fera, launched last week, was ‘revolutionary’. Why? First, we need to […]
