Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a bunch of people having dinner in mid-air. If you happen to be in north London on June 15 and you glance up to see a group of people tucking into a meal in the sky, don't worry, it's not because ...
Here's a teaser for you. Name the two biggest restaurants in London. Well, there's the Atrium, of course, and the Corinthian Club… What's that? Never heard of them? That could be because they lie outside the glittering heart of ...
Jason Atherton is to open a Maze Grill next door, and a new Maze in Prague It's going to be a busy year for Jason Atherton, Executive Chef of Gordon Ramsay Holdings' Maze in London's Mayfair. Atherton is to oversee the opening of a Maze...
A Georgian pub, opened in March this year, with an enormous 400sq.m walled garden, complete with a ‘barn', where the Sex Pistols and the Ramones once played. Interior and Exterior were designed by Shaun Clarkson (Odette's, The Club Bar ..
Gruesome nightmare or interesting talking point? Welcome to Living Tables When the table appears to be dressed as Marilyn Monroe and hands you a vol-auvent, it's probably time to slow down on the banana daiquiris. And when the watermelon in the ...
The ‘gastropub' – everybody's doing it but Daniel Clifford's doing it in Essex There's been an embarrassment of riches on the ‘gastropub' scene of late, with Gordon Ramsay's Narrow and Nigel Haworth's ...
Warner brothers Ben and Hugo predict great things for Benugo with the arrival of their first restaurant on London's Southbank Ben and Hugo Warner, owners of 18 Benugo café delis, have just launched their first restaurant venture, the ...
Dipna Anand's low cholesterol Punjabi cuisine has put her at the top of her class When Dipna Anand set about putting her restaurateur father Gulu Anand on a diet, she had her work cut out. Gulu, after all, is a man so stubborn that on the night ...
Jessica’s head chef leaves to pursue dream of opening own restaurant Glynn Purnell, Head Chef of Michelin-starred restaurant Jessica's in Edgbaston, Birmingham, is leaving the restaurant to open his own restaurant this summer. Purnell's .
The Walnut Tree Inn in Abergavenny has been sold after being closed in March ;pending some re-organisation;. Franco and Ann Taruschio founded the former Michelin-starred restaurant 30 years ago with recent owner Francesco Mattioli taking ...
The Anchor & Hope team arrive in the West End with a promising Covent Garden sequel When the Anchor & Hope opened in 2003, behind Waterloo Station in The Cut, many people thought it was an odd location to open a pub serving good quality food....
Loch Fyne Restaurants has bought a site in Midhurst, West Sussex which it plans to open in June. The seafood restaurant is opening on the historic town's high street in a 17th Century building. The current restaurant has 70 covers as well as a ...
The spiel: ;Freshly prepared and flavoursome cheap Mexican food served at a fast-food pace and price but in a relaxed dining environment.; Which means? The customer chooses the fillings for their burrito from a counter of hot and cold ...
Eastern European businessmen to launch restaurant for the Russian elite The site which used to house the Pourcel brothers' fine dining French restaurant W'Sens in St James's, London, has been bought by three Eastern European businessmen...
Highlights from the globally renowned design fair The 46th annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile – the world's leading design fair – took place in Milan at the end of April, and was attended by an incredible 1,500 exhibitors from ...
WHO? | Les Amis de Brula celebrate 10 years of business success, with the opening of a third South West London restaurant, La Saveur in East Sheen. Managing Director Lawrence Hartley, previously of The Ivy, and Chef Patron Bruce Duckett, formerly of ..
Keeping it in the family with good ingredients and wholesome cooking at Magdalen When I meet Roger Faulks at Magdalen in Southwark, it's clear I'm talking to a happy man. And deservedly so – the restaurant he owns with his son, Head ...
Claude Bosi bids for London site, Murchison to move on vacated Hibiscus: Claude Bosi has put in an offer on a site on London's Maddox Street W1 and hopes to move his two Michelin-starred Hibiscus restaurant, currently based in Ludlow, into the ...
Head Chef of French bistro Racine in London's South Kensington, Chris Hanley, has left to help set up a model for a chain of French brasseries. Hanley is entering into a partnership with an unnamed company and would only say, ;It's a new ...
Acclaimed French Chef and Restaurateur Alain Ducasse has opened Rech seafood restaurant in Paris. The restaurant, named after Albert Rech who opened a café/restaurant there in 1925, became an institution and has been restored to its former Art .
Another pub in Haworth and Bancroft's stable looks sure to stand out and deliver While much noise has been made about Gordon Ramsay's new pub opening in East London, across the country another pub serving decent food that doesn't want to...
The spiel? ;Healthy eating based on salads made from the freshest, unadulterated ingredients.; Which means? Starting at the base price of £5, customers can create their own salads out of about 80 different seasonal ingredients from ...
Don't think we're going all Martha Stewart on you, but we can't help rejoicing that scented candles are making the crossover from the domestic to the restaurant interior. They aren't for the table – a strong fragrance isn't ..
Roka roller to introduce Riviera institution to London Arjun Waney, co-founder of highly acclaimed Japanese restaurant brands Zuma and Roka, has obtained the franchise to the La Petite Maison brand in Nice and plans to open two London sites in the ...
‘World's Best Cream Puffs' have landed in the UK – be afraid, be very afraid Those of you unwilling to welcome a potentially addictive custard-filled pastry into your life, look away now, because Beard Papa's cream puffs have ..
The boutique hotel and restaurant aiming to claim back the East Sussex town from the blue rinse brigade At first, Rye might not sound like the place for a boutique hotel with a fashionable restaurant. The East Sussex town may be associated, in the ...
Tokyo opening marks the first of many restaurants planned to ‘inject something different' into the Japanese dining scene D&D London has opened its first restaurant in Japan, called Botanica, in partnership with Japanese restaurant group ...
First-timer chooses new development area to open ambitious 100-cover Indian With neighbouring Newcastle currently undergoing something of a culinary renaissance, Gateshead is to welcome the first major restaurant investment to its developing Quayside...
Ain't nothing cheesy about these pizzas The Spiel: ;Bringing an authentic American experience into downtown Notting Hill.; Which means: The Mulberry team uses water that has been filtered and tested to match New York water samples, ...
Jeffrey Chodorow’s back in town and his latest offering is sure to make waves Life is never boring with Jeffrey Chodorow around. Whenever his global restaurant group, China Grill Management, opens something new there's always a bit of ...
Cape Town Fish Market sets global expansion programme in motion with an opening in the heart of London's West End Restaurant company Cape Town Fish Market is opening its first branch outside South Africa in central London. It has snapped up a ...
A Michelin star-winning chef/proprietor has been lured back into the kitchen after a three-year career break. Phil Storey gained a star at the Old Chesil Rectory restaurant in Winchester in 2000 and retained it until selling up in 2004. He then left ..
Club 31 was a Spanish Capital classic, but its new redesign has brought it bang up to date Stepping into Club 31, a culinary monument beloved of the Madrileños, you feel temporarily flung back to 1950s New York, to the days when women wore ...
The Geordie chef who sold his flat and his car to risk it all on his own take on modern British cooking Looking at chef/owner Chris Slaughter, with his curly hair, as he bounces enthusiastically around the Grainger Rooms bar to the strains of Bob ...
There's much talk of major refurbishments and openings. What goes unsaid is how few people can afford a wholesale design job. Take the case of Morgan Meunier, Chef Patron of Morgan M in Islington. When he set up three years ago, he did everything...
Following its Brighton success, Pintxo People is coming to London Pintxo People is about to lose its X-factor, or rather, its ‘tx' factor. The Brighton tapas restaurant isn't jettisoning the je ne sais quoi that has made it successful, ..
‘Great dining experience' transported from Hoxton to Harrogate The owners of the Hoxton Grille in east London are planning to open their second Grille closer to their roots in Harrogate in the North-East. Restaurateurs Simon Wright and John .
‘English bistro' duo set sail for Covent Garden Two of the owners of the much feted gastropub The Anchor & Hope in London SE1 are opening a restaurant in Covent Garden, with Tom Norrington-Davies as Head Chef. Great Queen Street, in the ...
Bored? Well, why not try suspending deadly weapons above your delicate skull? Going out for dinner can be so dull. You sit down, you order, you eat and you go. Blah, blah, blah… So how does adding a little frisson sound? Perhaps like the ...
Michael Deane's expansion of his restaurant empire continues apace with his signing on a new site at the Outlet retail complex in Banbridge, County Down. The standalone glass unit within the £70million development will be ...
The North-Eastern Chef-restaurateur is to open three restaurants in the next year, starting in Fenwick in March North-Eastern Chef-Restaurateur Terry Laybourne is opening a Café 21 restaurant in Fenwick department store at the beginning of ...
Exuding risotto dishes to make you weep The Spiel: ;Slow food, cooked fast.; Which means? Risotto is cooked with a red wine, pancetta, fi sh stock or vegetable base and a choice of fi sh, meat and vegetables. Large batches are cooked up and ...
What the team behind Lord's media centre did for the new-look Scott's Scott's, London's classic seafood restaurant and oyster bar, was afforded a rapturous welcome back just before Christmas, when it reopened after just under three...
After the Black Pig and St Ervan, the Cornish Michelin star returns to the stove with a signature restaurant in Fowey With this, the third Cornish restaurant to showcase his talent in under four years, you could be forgiven for thinking Nathan Outlaw...
Collaboration breaks down, but another site is in his sights Alan Yau, owner of the UK's Hakkasan and Yauatcha in London, is no longer to open a Chinese restaurant – Park Chinois – at hotelier Ian Schrager's New Gramercy Park ...
What is it? The longest-standing French restaurant in London, dating back to the early 40s when Charles de Gaulle came here during the war. Who owns it? Tricolor-flying, moustache-twizzling, 65-year-old Alain Lhermitte . The dashing Frenchman arrived...
London Brasseries, the company set up founder Andrew Bonnell, former Managing Director of Tootsies, is to open its third site in as many months, at the Gunwharf Quays' Land Securities £200m mixed-use development on Portsmouth Harbour ...
Vernes Restaurant and Tea Rooms on the riverside of the Cotswold's Bourton-on-the- Water has been sold for an undisclosed sum after offers in the region of £89,950 were sought for the new lease. The stone property includes a 60-cover ...
Meanwhile, property agents Colliers Robert Barry orchestrated the sale of The Daffodil restaurant in Cheltenham. The brasserie-style venue, which used to be an Art Deco cinema, has been bought by Mark Stephens who was responsible for the site's ...
What is it? A Leeds-institution, this Italian has seen three new looks and homes since 1974. Who owns it? Oliver Teodorani set up the original Bibis in Mill Hill in partnership with Dino Aristotelous. He opened a second Bibis in York in 1979 (sold in...