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• Andrew Fairlie at The Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, awarded number 1 spot in Harden’s Top 100 Best UK Restaurants, followed by Evelyn’s Table at The Blue Posts, London, and Waterside Inn, Bray. • South West is strongest dining region after the South East with Cornwall as the county with the most Top 500 listings. • […]
The celebratory chef Rick Stein has urged hospitality workers looking for employment to head to the coast. A staycation boom in the UK is seeing thousands of Britons travel to British holiday resorts due to uncertainty over overseas trips during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, Stein has launched a recruitment drive to fill some […]
The acclaimed chef and restaurateur Michael Caines has announced the acquisition of the former Rick Stein Restaurant in Porthleven, Cornwall. The news marks Caines’ second venture in Cornwall – his first came last year with his purchase of The Cove at Maenport – and is, said the team, a “welcome addition to the Michael Caines […]
A spokesman for the Rick Stein brand has responded to criticism that the celebrity chef would not be paying his staff for a month while his restaurants remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, reports said the broadcaster and restaurateur would not provide wages to employees while his restaurants were shut and they […]
Celebrity chef Rick Stein has come under fire for refusing to pay his workers’ wages while restaurants are closed, despite honouring them in an Instagram post just days before. The chef and TV star told staff they will not be paid for over a month while his restaurants are shut due to the coronavirus pandemic. […]
The profits of the company incorporating Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant empire halved last year, The Caterer said. The company, which also operates hotels, retail outlets, and a cookery school, blamed the wider hospitality industry for the drop. Turnover remained steady, falling from £16.9m to £16.8m the previous year. But pre-tax profits plummeted to just £489,000, […]
The former senior sous chef at Rick Stein’s Seafood restaurant in Padstow is moving to west Cornwall to oversee the dining room at the Old Coastguard, on the seafront in Mousehole. Jamie Porter has been appointed to his first head chef role at the 15-bedroom hotel restaurant, which hangs on the hilly entrance to the […]
Harden’s has released the final shortlist for this year’s definitive London Restaurant Awards, which takes place on 11 September at The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 27-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers. This year 8,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the categories specified by Harden’s. The […]
⦿ Jay Rayner of The Observer reviewed Plot in Tooting, “a sliver of a restaurant serving terrible cocktails and great food in one of south London’s traditional covered markets”. “Thick curls of squid, crusted with a chorizo crumb on a salad of tomatoes that taste of something, is a bit of textural fun. It’s followed by a dainty […]
Rick Stein is guest chef at the first outdoor season from the Pop-Up Picture Company, the film-and-food project co-founded by Tom Kerridge, which pitches camp in the grounds of Cliveden House in Berkshire and Chewton Glen in Hampshire this summer. Kerridge launched the pop-up with three friends in the lead-up to last Christmas, serving set meals accompanied by a season of classic and […]
