The Lake District’s Sharrow Bay Hotel is to relaunch next year under new ownership, with highly-rated restaurant Allium transferring from nearby Askham Hall. Opened in 1948, Sharrow Bay was famous as Britain’s first country-house hotel, but has been closed since 2020. The hotel, which overlooks Ullswater, was run for 50 years by Brian Sack and […]
Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is planning to bring celebrated Bristol restaurant Casamia back to life – 18 months after closing it down permanently as ‘financially unviable’. Posting on Instagram, he announced: “Casamia will reopen again. Unfinished business.” The restaurant was originally launched in 1997 by Peter’s parents as a relatively modest suburban trattoria, before being transformed by […]
