After a two-year stint at Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social, Kostas Papathanasiou recently moved to oversee the kitchen at Atherton's newly launched No.5 Social in Mayfair.
As its 50th birthday approaches, Hard Rock is looking to shake things up by opening a new London restaurant that’s designed to showcase a fresh ‘modern vision’ for the brand.
A former MasterChef: The Professionals finalist is to oversee the kitchen at ‘a new and progressive’ West African restaurant opening in London’s Fitzrovia in October.
Two years after launching Bun House on Soho’s Greek Street, husband and wife team Alex Peffly and Z He have converted the site into a new bar and restaurant concept inspired by 1960s Hong Kong.
Chef and former Gordon Ramsay Group (GRG) CEO Stuart Gillies is to open a standalone restaurant next month, following his mysterious departure from the company last year.
PizzaExpress says it has scaled back expansion and is focusing on upgrading its existing UK restaurants in the face of “intense competition” in the casual dining market.
Professionals from across the industry have reacted with anger after comments made by Marco Pierre White regarding men and women in the kitchen appeared in the press.
Husband and wife team Alex Peffly and Z He have converted their original Bun House site in London’s Soho into a Hong Kong-style concept partly inspired by He’s upbringing.
Chef Angela Hartnett is to open a third Café Murano restaurant in London later this year, on the site once occupied by Sam Harris’ Zucca on Bermondsey Street.
French chef Richard Bertinet is calling on hospitality employers to support staff applying under the EU Settlement Scheme, after his own application was denied.
Pascal Aussignac’s imaginative French restaurant in Smithfield gives our kitchen hand a lesson in foie gras and reveals the chef-patron’s flowery approach to his cooking
German chopped salad concept Salaid is set to launch in the UK later this year under new name Choppaluna, as it eyes major expansion across the country.
Matt Thomas is managing director of Searcys, whose restaurant and catering portfolio includes the Champagne bar at London’s St Pancras station and Helix on the 39th floor of the Gherkin.
A no-deal Brexit looks likely to lead to food shortages and billions being wiped off the UK eating out market, so how are restaurants and suppliers preparing for the future in a time of unprecedented uncertainty?
Independent neighbourhood-style bar group Darwin & Wallace is set to open its eighth London location, launching on the waterfront in Canary Wharf this October.
