The Dorchester hotel group has appointed Tom Booton as head chef of its famous Grill restaurant. Booton, at just 26, is the youngest chef to hold the position in the restaurant’s 88-year history. Booton has joined from Alyn Williams at the Westbury in Mayfair, where he held the same position, and will be spending the […]
Manchester’s bold and glitzy 20 Stories fared well in our 2019 guide. The restaurant, which launched last year, has so far lived up better to the D&D brand than some of its other launches, according to reporters. “It’s a beautiful space filled with beautiful people,” they said. But it turned out chef Aiden Byrne’s food […]
Renowned French chef Laurent Tourondel (perhaps best known in the States where he has ventures in Miami, North Carolina and New York) announces his first foray into Europe with a dining room at opening in London’s Hotel Café Royal on Regent Street. Further afield, Tourondel owns restaurants in Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and the Caribbean. The as […]
A retirement village in Hampshire has become the first to win national recognition for the quality of its restaurant with the award of an AA rosette. The Redwood Bistro at Bishopstoke Park retirement community in Eastleigh – which is open to non-residents – received the award following an anonymous inspection visit in December. While the announcement may have come […]