**** Due to a last minute cancellation – we have just 2 places left –  please email bookings@hardens.com****   An exclusive, one-off event hosted by Harden’s Restaurant Guide co-founder Peter Harden and celebrated chef, and president of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA), Raymond Blanc, at the magnificent Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Great Milton, […]

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The Chancellor’s budget for 2016 has proved rather divisive since its unveiling last week. From Jeremy Corbyn’s calls for George Osborne to resign over a purported £4.4 billion black hole in the numbers to Iain Duncan’s Smith’s dramatic exit, it has split opinion among the general public, politicians and the catering industry. One aspect of […]

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The Sustainable Restaurant Association has announced its shortlist for the People’s Favourite category at the Food Made Good Awards 2016. Among the nominees is the staff canteen at one of the West Country’s best known dairies; a Hertfordshire park café with a 10-strong team of volunteers with learning difficulties; an organic, vegetarian tearoom in the Lake […]

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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 […]

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To celebrate the launch of its first restaurant, crowd-funded takeaway concept Pizza Rossa will give away 300 free pizza slices this Friday (6 June). Its signature ‘al taglio’ (square) pizzas will be served from the company’s new home in Leadenhall Market in the City.The pizza place plans to open two more sites in the City, […]

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