The couple behind the Double Red Duke in the Cotswolds have doubled up with the opening this week of the Mason’s Arms, across the road in the Oxordshire village of Clanfield. Formerly known as the Clanfield Tavern, the Mason’s Arms is the original name of the old coaching inn, parts of which date from 1610. […]
Diners were disappointed to learn of two premature endings this week, with the closure of London risotto specialist All’Onda from first-time restaurateur Cordula Schluz (pictured) and the departure of veteran chef Simon Bonwick after 18 months at the Dew Drop Inn in Berkshire. All’Onda (meaning ‘on the wave’), in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, only lasted for […]
Jeremy Clarkson has bought a pub 10 miles from his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds, which he plans to open later this year to sell his own produce and beer. Announcing the move in his Sunday Times column, the petrol-head-turned-farmer said he had bought The Windmill, a pub and wedding venue on five acres […]
Nathan Richardson, former head chef at the Guinea Grill in Mayfair, is opening his new country gastropub today in the Vale of the White Horse near Faringdon in Oxfordshire. The Lamb Tavern is in Buckland, a photogenic estate village of thatched Cotswold stone cottages built to house staff from the Palladian mansion Buckland House in […]
