Diners can help alleviate homelessness by donating £1 per table at more than 540 restaurants, pubs and hotels around the UK between now and the end of the year in the charity StreetSmart’s annual fundraising drive. Chef and StreetSmart ambassador Monica Galetti (pictured), of restaurant Mere in Fitzrovia, is among the volunteers who provide daily […]
Harrods will bring together an all-star group of chefs – six chefs with 12 Michelin sparklers between them – for a one-off high-rollers’ charity banquet next week (Thursday 25 September) costing £2,500 a head. Limited to just 25 diners, the meal will raise funds for Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert’s in Earl’s Court, part of Italian […]
StreetSmart, the restaurant sector’s charity tackling homelessness, raised almost £700,000 in its annual pre-Christmas fund-raising drive last year, despite the dampening effect of Covid on diners’ activity. The charity has now raised more than £11 million since its foundation in 1998, but supporters who celebrated its success at Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell this week […]
Nico Simeone, the chef behind the fast-growing bargain tasting-menu chain Six by Nico, is opening a new restaurant in his native Glasgow next week and donating all its profits to charity. Beat 6 in Whitehall Street, Dennistoun, has been set up to provide funds for Glasgow’s Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, which treated Nico’s […]
20 of the UK’s top chefs, 15 Michelin stars between them, and one night at London’s Rosewood hotel, Holborn. Yes, Who’s Cooking Dinner? is back on 5 March with an unrivaled line-up of culinary talent. At £700 a head, snagging one of just 200 places at this annual event sure ain’t cheap – but the […]
This Saturday (17 February) MasterChef Finalist and head chef at the Italian Embassy, Danilo Cortellini, will be taking his eponymous catering company to West London to create a feast to raise money for mental health charity, A-HEAD London. Taking place at the Refettorio Felix in West London, the evening will be a celebration of the Italian […]
Ukrainian-born chef and writer Olia Hercules heads a team of cooks preparing a Haitian-themed dinner to raise funds for ShelterBox at Carousel in Marylebone on Monday November 7. Shine for ShelterBox is six-week campaign to raise money to provide emergency relief and shelter for communities devastated by natural disasters or political conflict. Hercules will be joined by chefs Oliver […]
How would you like to spend an evening with Jason Atherton? What’s that? You would very much like to indeed?! Well it appears that your culinary dreams have come true as the acclaimed chef takes over the kitchen at Old Amersham gem Artichoke for one night only (10 June). The charity event, which features a […]
