Top Scottish chef Martin Wishart’s Loch Lomond outpost is to close permanently, just four months after its relaunch. Cameron House resort hotel announced that its flagship fine-dining restaurant, Tamburrini & Wishart, will close on 31st October. The restaurant was the latest incarnation of Martin’s long association with Cameron House, where he first opened the restaurant […]

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The Ethicurean, the influential sustainable food pioneer based in a garden on the edge of the Mendip Hills near Bristol, is to close down in October after 13 years, with its founders promising to “go out with a bang” this summer. They announced the decision in a statement saying: “After 13 incredible years, The Ethicurean […]

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An independent restaurant faces closure after losing £50,000 in a bank account scam. Natalia Ribbe and Jackson Berg of Barletta, at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate, say they have been “totally crippled” by the fraud. A friend has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help keep them in business. Natalia noticed suspicious activity in their […]

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The Wolseley’s outlet at Bicester Village shopping centre is closing down in a blow to Minor International, the Thai-based company that took over Corbin & King in April and renamed it The Wolseley Hospitality Group (TWHG). In a curtly expressed press release, TWHG said the closure would take place by next Wednesday, 10 August at […]

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Fraiche, the tiny Merseyside restaurant that topped the Harden’s Best UK Restaurants list in 2020, is to close permanently at the end of September. Chef-patron Marc Wilkinson announced the news in a Facebook post, bringing to an end his 18-year run in the Wirral village of Oxton. Famously operating as a one-man brigade in the […]

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