A well-connected watering hole in Notting Hill is to reopen as a Scottish restaurant and whisky bar later this month. The Walmer Castle in Ledbury Road – a hop and skip away from Brett Graham’s celebrated restaurant The Ledbury – will serve classic Scottish meals in its ground-floor dining room and more than 100 whiskies in […]

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The UK’s top 100 restaurants are revealed in Harden’s Best UK Restaurants 2018 published today – the country’s most comprehensive restaurant guide available in bookshops, with approximately twice the number of entries as The Good Food Guide. The guide hails London’s The Araki as the country’s best restaurant. The experience is “world class” and, at £385-a-head, […]

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East Grinstead’s “lovely country manor house” Gravetye Manor will close on 2 January for four months to develop a new space for the hotel’s restaurant. Reopening in May 2018 the new look restaurant, under head chef George Blogg, is being designed by architect Sir Charles Knowles, in collaboration with interior designer Claire Nelson (The Ledbury and Elystan Street) […]

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