High-profile Edinburgh chef Mark Greenaway is to launch two new restaurants in the same Lake District hotel next month. A self-named restaurant and the more informal Brasserie Thirty Seven will open at the Haweswater Hotel, near the M6 motorway on the edge of the Lakes. Mark is best known for Restaurant Mark Greenaway on Edinburgh’s […]
Well-known Brighton-based chef Dave Mothersill is opening the first restaurant under his own name next week. Furna, set in Georgian premises in New Road, launches on Wednesday (30 November), and will celebrate British produce. Originally from Yorkshire, Dave has worked in and around Brighton for two decades, namely for the Gingerman group and Razak Helalat’s […]
Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is relaunching his flagship restaurant Casamia – this time as an Italian restaurant called simply Casa. The new venture opens on 16 November, next-door to his Spanish tapas bar Paco Tapas in the harbourside former Bristol General Hospital building. The new Casa is to some extent a reimagining of the original Casamia, a family […]
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 […]
Britain’s first ‘zero staff’ restaurant is scheduled to open in Oxford later this year. EZ 24 Ramen will be open 24 hours a day, serving bowls of ramen prepared to order in three minutes, and there will be no staff on the premises beyond an operative who pops in every day to top up the […]
Coworth Park, the luxury hotel near Sunningdale in Berkshire, will unveil a new destination restaurant named after its executive chef next week. Woven by Adam Smith promises to “push the boundaries of creativity and excellence” when it launches on Thursday 8 September. Once owned by the polo-playing Canadian billionaire Galen Weston, the palatial Georgian house […]
An Indian food truck in a small Cheshire town is to spawn three permanent restaurants after appearing on the Hairy Bikers’ TV Christmas Special. Sunitha Southern, owner of the Indian Goat in Bollington, near Macclesfield, is planning to open branches in Bollington, Manchester and Northeast England – and she’s set her sights on bagging a Michelin […]
Food hall mania is continuing to grip the country, with three multiple-kitchen venues opening in and around London – and another in Manchester – in a matter of weeks, in addition to the high-profile ‘Arcade’ openings from industry leaders JKS in the Centre Point building in April and, next year, Battersea Power Station. Earlier this […]
A retro-themed canteen and bar inspired by 1970s social clubs in northern cities and an on-trend community hub in Copenhagen has opened in Sheffield. Neepsend Social Club was launched this month on Kelham Island, a former industrial zone now regenerated as a food-and-drink hot spot. The venue features functional furniture, fittings and flooring with décor […]
Chef-owner Dev Biswal is to re-launch his Anglo-India Canterbury restaurant The Ambrette under a new identity as The Cook’s Tale, inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and focusing on locally sourced produce. Dev closed his original Ambrette, opposite Margate’s Turner Contemporary art gallery, earlier this year, saying he wanted to improve his work-life balance after […]
