Chef Josh Overington and his wife Victoria are to open a new restaurant with rooms in North Yorkshire this summer, less than a year after closing their highly rated Le Cochon Aveugle in York. Mýse (which rhymes with cheese) is scheduled to open in June in the village of Hovingham, almost 20 miles north of […]
Two prominent independent restaurants have announced their permanent closure – Le Cochon Aveugle in York and House of Feasts in Peterborough – highlighting the struggles faced by the industry since lockdown was lifted. Le Cochon Aveugle (pictured above) was opened in 2014 and serves only a ‘blind’ tasting menu to just five tables. The current Harden’s 2022 […]
French haute cuisine, the wellspring from which culinary magic seems to flow across the world, has been sidelined of late in favour of rusticity, simplicity and (let’s face it) dirty great burgers. But can the classics ever truly go out of style? Surely we all just need a gentle reminder of France’s culinary prowess? Well, […]
The Sunday Times’s AA Gill revisits Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy in its new form as Pharmacy 2 in Vauxhall and finds things have changed considerably since the Notting Hill original launched in 1998, when the opening was ‘like a red-carpet premiere, a mob of paparazzi and rubberneckers, double-parked limos, teeth and tits’. “I was surprised at […]