
Chef Tom Simmons confirms plans for his biggest project yet
Cardiff-based chef Tom Simmons has revealed more details about his upcoming project at Park House.

Cardiff-based chef Tom Simmons has revealed more details about his upcoming project at Park House.

Launched in 2016 in SoHo, Jess Shadbolt’s Italy and France inspired King restaurant remains one of the hottest tickets in Manhattan.

The head chef at Lake District hotel and restaurant The Forest Side on Michael Wignall, classic foundations and pairing stilton with Stella.

Andrew Turvil’s book gives a fast-paced and fascinating insight into the 1990s restaurant revolution.

The former Nobu executive chef and creator of Bone Daddies has gone all out with one of London’s most striking restaurant launches in years that pays homage to the childhood home of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Former Gilpin Lodge head chef Mike Shaw has been appointed chef patron at top Lancashire gastropub The Freemasons at Wiswell.

Some of the UK’s top chefs including Jason Atherton, Andy Beynon and Alex Bond will swap their aprons for boxing gloves early next year to raise funds for better food education.

Chefs Kyu Jeong Jeon and Duncan Robertson are breaking new ground in Redland with their fiercely authentic Korean restaurant Dongnae.

The head chef and co-founder at Marjorie’s in Soho on and his admiration for Clare Smyth and the Big Mac.

This month’s key personnel changes in hospitality.

With his elevated fast food brand Heard, chef Jordan Bailey is out to prove there’s space for a multi-site concept that reimagines the humble burger with a fine dining philosophy.

The co-founder of new London live-fire restaurant Nela on his penchant for a late-night kebab and never having received a bad review for his cooking.

Keira Carolan from Simon Rogan’s Windermere restaurant Henrock has been named the Craft Guild of Chefs’ Young National Chef of the Year.
Danny Young from The Torridon in the Scottish Highlands has been named as this year’s UK National Chef of the Year.

LIMA has appointed Diego Recarte as head chef as the Peruvian restaurant embarks on a new chapter.

Galway international symposium Food on the Edge has announced its speakers for 2025.

The Great British Menu star is relaunching her sellout story-driven restaurant concept within a former prison that’s also home to a distillery.

North Kent Coast-based chef Billy Stock will open a pub and dining room with his partner, Ellie Topham, later this year.

The executive chef and co-founder of Restaurant St. Barts and Nest in London on why tasting menus trump à la carte, his love of pizza, and why truffle is overrated.

As The Fat Duck celebrates its 30th anniversary, its founder reflects on the huge pressure behind retaining creative momentum, its continued reinvention, and a lightbulb moment about what gastronomy really means.

Gizzi Erskine is returning to London’s Mare Street Market as chef creative director, developing ‘revitalised’ menus across both its sites and launching a new health concept.

The chef behind acclaimed East London restaurant Da Terra has opened a Hove restaurant that balances ambition and accessibility.

Former Native chef Ivan Tisdall-Downes will launch a restaurant in Hackney later this year.

Freelance chef Oliver McGeorge has been named the new UK candidate for the Bocuse d’Or following a cook-off at the University of West London earlier this week.

Nokz Majozi has announced her departure from Rosewood London hotel after 11 years.

Former The Barbary and Ottolenghi chef Daniel Alt has been named head chef at soon-to-launch Canary Wharf Turkish restaurant Nora.

The head chef at Peckham restaurant Hausu on jalapeno poppers, Gordon Ramsay and the perils of after-work drinks.

Apricity founder Chantelle Nicholson has made her international debut with a restaurant in Copenhagen.

Gordon Ramsay will bring his Hell’s Kitchen restaurant brand to the UK for the first time next year with the opening of a site within Marble Arch’s Cumberland Hotel.

Deepak Mallya has been promoted from executive sous chef to head chef at The Ritz.

Jamie Oliver has admitted that getting the basics wrong led to the downfall of his restaurant group.

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons executive chef Luke Selby is to oversee the culinary direction of North Wales country house hotel Palé Hall as chef partner, it has been confirmed.

The breakfast development chef at Pavyllon London at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane on working in McDonald’s, dealing with ridiculous customer requests, and being confident in the kitchen.

Luke Ahearne is joining forces with fellow chef Stevie Parle to open a large ‘London-Italian’ restaurant in Fitzrovia this October.

Former The Tent (at the end of the universe) chef John Javier has been appointed executive chef at Notting Hill bar and restaurant Caia.

The Fat Duck could soon offer smaller portion sizes due to the number of diners on weight loss drugs, according to its founder Heston Blumenthal.

Matt Tebbutt is to replace Gregg Wallace as judge for the next series of MasterChef: The Professionals.

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Gordon Ramsay appears poised to relaunch Hell’s Kitchen on TV in the UK, but the show’s highly pressurised and often combative representation of how a restaurant operates feels outdated.

Edinburgh-based chef and restaurateur Stuart Ralston will open a wine-led restaurant and separate cocktail bar on the former site of Fhior next month.

Neapolitan pizza may have been dominant trend in the UK over the past decade, but an increasing number of players are opting for the myriad of other styles at their disposal.

The executive chef at LUNA Omakase on finding inspiration from his mother, negative energy, and singing Happy Birthday to a dog.

Former Launceston Place chef Ben Murphy will lead the kitchen at WSH Restaurant’s soon to launch new project within the former site of Mere in London’s Fitzrovia.

Gordon Ramsay Academy is launching its first accredited culinary training programme at its flagship site in Woking Surrey, marking the first time it has offered professional chef training.

Ceviche and Andina founder Martin Morales is making a return to the UK restaurant scene for one night only for a special fundraising dinner.

Chet Sharma’s debut book tells the story of one of the UK’s most progressive and exacting Indian restaurants.

Best known for his two-year stint running Peter Sanchez-Iglesias’ Bristol flagship, Zak Hitchman and his partner Emma Lyons are switching things up with their progressive Bedminster bistro.

Wild Honey chef Anthony Demetre has joined The Lunar Pub Company’s soon-to-open Belgravia site, The Elizabeth, as culinary director.

The head chef at 670 Grams in Birmingham on the McDonald’s dessert that’s better than any she’s had in a Michelin restaurant, and her problem with Turkey Twizzlers.

Adam Handling has announced the promotion of Cleverson Cordeiro from head chef to proprietor of Frog by Adam Handling, his Michelin-starred flagship restaurant in London’s Covent Garden.

Chefs Sally Abe, Judy Joo and Ben Murphy have joined the line-up at Fulham FC’s The Gourmet restaurant within its Riverside stand.