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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant reviewers were writing about in the week up to 22nd December 2024 London Standard Wiltons, St James’s David Ellis might be the only person ever to have paid his bill with a Tesco credit card at this bastion of moneyed Englishness (est. 1742) – but he was a sucker […]
Harden’s co-founder Peter Harden was a key contributor to a Radio 4 programme broadcast last weekend that examined the failure of Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain Jamie’s Italian. Quoting from the annual Harden’s surveys, Peter said that the apparently successful group was failing to deliver the goods several years before it went bust. The first Jamie’s […]
Jamie Oliver has confirmed that his new Covent Garden restaurant will open in November under the name ‘Jamie Oliver at Catherine Street’. The launch marks the TV chef and writer’s return to the British restaurant scene after the collapse of his mini-empire four years ago – amid heavy hints that other openings will follow. The […]
Jeremy King has made a surprise return to the hospitality scene – as part of Jamie Oliver’s relaunched UK business. Considered by many the doyen of London restaurateurs as founder of the Wolseley and other top-drawer establishments, Jeremy was ousted from his Corbin & King group last year after a bitter struggle with Thai-based majority investor […]
Jamie Oliver is preparing for a return to the British restaurant scene – four years after the collapse of his UK business saw the closure of 25 restaurants with 1,000 jobs lost and debts of £83million. His first new venue is scheduled to open this autumn in Covent Garden as part of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s revamped […]
Former staff at Jamie Oliver’s restaurants have been awarded more than £471,000 in compensation. Following an FOI request by The Mirror, recent tribunal judgements relating to Oliver’s various failed businesses resulted in money paid out by the Redundancy Payments Service. The claims were not against the Jamie Oliver Group, which continues to trade, but the likes […]
Jamie Oliver may have put an end to his UK restaurant operations for now, but he is still acutely present around the world, particularly on cruise ships, where his Jamie’s Italian brand lives on. The celebrity chef is getting back in the game a little closer to home too now, though, and with international restaurant […]
Jamie Oliver’s restaurant empire is no more. The group entered administration on May 21 and within hours all but three of the celebrity chef’s locations were closed. The company announced the board had appointed KPMG to oversee the restructuring process on Tuesday, and confirmed in a statement that approximately 1,000 members of staff would be […]
In his first interview after his well-publicised difficulties with Jamie’s Italian, Jamie Oliver gave access to the FT this week to present his case about what went wrong at the troubled group. His most gripping revelations surround the day he suddenly learnt that he was going to have to write a personal cheque for £7.5m […]
Jamie Oliver’s good-looking but “soooooo overpriced” duo of luxury grills Barbecoa (in Piccadilly and the City) has fallen into administration. It was announced today (Monday 19 February) that the Piccadilly site has closed and both venues are being “touted by Christies property agents to assess their market potential”. But fans will be pleased to hear M restaurants’ […]
