Michelin-starred chef Quique Dacosta has opened his first restaurant outside of Spain in London’s Fitzrovia, and the emphasis is on rice… lots and lots of rice.
It has been reported that Turkish chef/restaurateur Nusret Gökçe (aka: Salt Bae) is to finally open his debut London restaurant in Knightsbridge this December.
Kieran Waite is the co-founder and director of Bristol's five-strong Season & Taste hospitality group, which opened Mexican restaurant Masa + Mezcal this spring.
With more and more customers choosing to lay off the hard stuff, the market for grown-up non-alcoholic drinks continues to expand. Here are some of the latest launches.
The rise of Instagram has meant it’s never been easier for chefs to get inspiration from their peers across the world. But at what point does it turn into plagiarism? And who, if anyone, has ownership of a dish anyway?
Northern restaurant and bar operator Arc Inspirations is to close The Pit bar in Harrogate and reopen the site under its Manahatta brand later this year.
The restaurateur ran Sam's Brasserie in Chiswick and Harrison's in Balham for a decade until 2015. He will open Sam's Riverside in Hammersmith this summer.
All-day restaurant and bar group The Alchemist is set to open four further sites in the UK as it continues to push ahead with rapid national expansion plans.
Two alumni of Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck have confirmed their debut restaurant will open in the former Londrino site in London Bridge this autumn.
The collapse of Jamie's Italian has put a fresh spotlight on restaurant chains that survived last year's 'casual dining crunch'. Can Carluccio's avoid the same fate?
Having honed his skills working with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire, Tom Clarke became head chef at L'Ortolan in Reading back in 2015.
Housed within London’s Bulgari hotel, Sette is the first UK opening for the US-based LDV Hospitality and is inspired by the group’s signature New York restaurant concept Scarpetta.
The former barrister opened Indian restaurant Mowgli in Liverpool in 2014. The group now operates sites in Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Nottingham and Sheffield, with Cardiff, Leicester and Bristol to open this year.
London is to play host to another huge food hall with the opening of the Arcade Food Theatre on the ground floor of The City’s Centre Point building next month.
Rockfish, the seafood restaurant group from Mitch Tonks, recently opened its most ambitious site yet in Exeter. And it’ll be spreading its net wider soon.
The overall look and feel of a restaurant has a huge impact on customer experience. Here’s how savvy operators get a consistent and effective look across their venues.
Patrick Powell and Harry Handelsman are looking to sprinkle some Chiltern Firehouse magic on a new build in Stratford. But is the area really ready for their ambitious new project?
Jason Atherton is to oversee a ‘restaurant and lifestyle offering’ that is set to launch within the newly re-branded Biltmore hotel on Grosvenor Square later this summer.
This September Polpo celebrates its 10th anniversary. We chart the past decade of the trailblazing Venetian small plates restaurant group, and look at what could come next.
