This is a guest blog by our friends at the Sustainable Restaurant Association, who launch a new campaign in August to get restaurants serving more veg and better meat. Mushroom risotto, butternut squash tart and pasta with tomato sauce. Three dishes stuffed away in the corner of the menu miles away from the long, eye-catching […]
A chef who trained at River Cottage and went on to found a supper club with his business partner has announced their first permanent restaurant in Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden. Ivan Tisdall-Downes and Imogen Davis’s game-focused venture, Native, launching in early-February, will specialise in rare-breed meats, wild food and nose-to-tail cooking. Davis and Tisdall-Downes, who previously trained at […]
Two very different restaurants, 700 miles apart, were named joint winners of the Sustainable Restaurant of the Year award yesterday (23 February) in London. Daylesford Organic, which operates three organic cafés in the Cotswolds and London, and The Captain’s Galley (Britain’s most northerly mainland restaurant) received their awards from Raymond Blanc, president of the Sustainable Restaurant […]
Following a £1.5m refurb, 19th century public house Tulse Hill Hotel will reopen on 8 December as a neighbourhood restaurant-with-rooms. The restored Herne Hill venue will offer nine bedrooms, a restaurant, lounge and bar, as well as a 14-cover private dining room and a chef’s table that seats five. Heading up the open plan kitchen, […]
A new River Cottage Canteen will open, in Winchester city centre, on 24 September. The restaurant, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s fourth outpost, will occupy a Grade II listed building, Abbey Mill, just off the Broadway. In addition to the dining room, the site will also have a separate bar area offering a selection of local cider, beer, cocktails, coffees, cakes and […]
Ollie and Richard Gladwin, the brothers behind Notting Hill’s rip-roaringly successful “farm-to-plate” restaurant, The Shed, are planning to open a second venture. The pair have taken over Choys Chinese restaurant at 172 King’s Road in Chelsea, which will relaunch as Rabbit, a 48-cover venue focused on nose-to-tail cooking. The pint-sized original took over Kensington’s venerable Ark […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of River Cottage to offer you the chance to win a foodie experience to remember in gorgeous East Devon. This tasty little morsel of a competition is for one lucky winner, who will be catered for as only River Cottage know how! The winner will receive a ticket for the River Cottage Experience, […]
Were you aware it’s Earth Awareness month? Harden’s has teamed up with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) to bring you a list of some of the UK’s top places to eat ethically. Save the planet while also tantalising your tastebuds… Grain Store N1 £50 Harden’s says: “An exciting new venture for Bruno Loubet and his […]
