A group of leading Lake District chefs have come together for a week of dinners in a pop-up festival to raise awareness and funds in a campaign to save Lake Windermere from environmental disaster. Chefs 4 Save Windermere brings together a star-studded cast of the foodie region’s chefs headed by a team from Simon Rogan’s […]
Multi-award winning chef Simon Rogan has announced a new restaurant. Henrock, described as a new “informally elegant” venture (we’re not sure what that means either), will be set within Linthwaite House in the Lake District, and will open in October. With views over Lake Windermere, Henrock will follow Rogan’s practised and precise culinary style, using […]
Simon Rogan has announced he will leave Fera, the restaurant he set up at Claridge’s in Mayfair three years ago, at the end of April. The restaurant’s current team will continue operating under head chef Matt Starling, a Rogan protégé. Meanwhile, Rogan is looking for permanent London premises to rehouse a revival of Roganic, the temporary restaurant […]
Last week The Times’s Giles Coren was drooling over his keyboard at the very thought of another meal at Brad McDonald’s new Deep South-influenced Soho haunt Shotgun. This week his colleague AA Gill over at the Sunday Times takes said shotgun and fires both barrels at the place in his Table Talk column… “The first […]
The Editors’ review of Ham Yard The food is the usual Firmdale Hotel formula, but the setting is really something special. Beast has Grace Dent roaring and raving “Look away now if London decadence leaves you boggle-eyed”, warns ES’s critic. Get a free glass of bubbly at the new Hawksmoor The Knightsbridge outpost […]