;Last year, the Brewers Association of Japan held a drinks tasting at the Japanese embassy in London. I went with our Bar Manager and we came across this,; says Ayako Watanabe, Managing Director of Saki Bar and Food Emporium in Smithfield, ...
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 days when Portugal was known only for fortified wines, fizzy pinks and tannic reds that remained undrinkable for years are long gone. It shares, with Italy, the blessing – and handicap – of a variety of grapes that, mostly, no one ...
A rise in expendable income means diners are likely to eat out more, but this is no time to sit back and relax It's never been more important for restaurateurs to get really good at marketing. Customers are more choosy about where they spend ...
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 ...
Selected by the largest, most internationally diverse panel yet, with 22 voting regions worldwide, Restaurant magazine presents the list everyone's been waiting for...The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants How we did it The academy system of voting that...
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 ..
When a customer's big night out finally comes around, it's vital that service meets expectations You've been planning this meal for a long time, the reservations were made months ago. The food is excellent, the building is beautiful, but...
Restaurateurs are advised to pay attention to the latest amendments to the Work and Families Act With the introduction of the new Work and Families Act at the beginning of April, restaurateurs need to ensure they're up to speed with the changes ...
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 ..
Waiting on tables is all about serving the customer, not a management brief, writes Fay Maschler The brief encounter that is the relationship between a waiter and a customer in a restaurant is fraught with the same difficulties that attended Celia ...
Silver service or pub grub? We ask those behind some of the most successful gastropubs how they strike the balance It's a familiar scenario. You knock back a couple of halves in the downstairs bar, ascend the rickety staircase to the dining room...
Crab Crème Brûlée ;The only thing that has been on the menu for the entire ten years we've been open is the Crab Crème Brulee. It's an adaptation of something I saw in a magazine ten years ago which called it ...
DANNY MEYER IS NEW YORK'S RESTAURATEUR EXTRAORDINAIRE AND THE US BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS CLAMOURING FOR HIS WORDS OF WISDOM. STILL HE FOUND TIME FOR RESTAURANT'S UNIQUE BRAND OF HOSPITALITY Five minutes into my first meeting with Danny Meyer I...
Who is he? Owner of the Meredith Group which runs gastropubs The House in Islington, The Bull in Highgate and is about to refurbish The Running Footman in Mayfair, which it will reopen in August. How did he get into the industry? He went to Swiss ...
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 ...
After a High Court case making employers liable for staff harassment, there's a very real risk that robbery could hit you twice over if you don't take precautions Restaurateurs risk claims of negligence if they fail to protect their staff ...
Is it just a fizz? The Champagne houses clearly think not as production is stepped up to meet popular demand The growth in sales of pink wines over the past few years has been exceptional. Rosé Champagne has been particularly successful, with ..
Heat by Bill Buford Jonathan Cape £17.99 Review by Kayleigh Donahue Five years ago, Bill Buford, former Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, set out to write a profile on Mario Batali, famous in the US as much for his restaurant empire and ...
Who are you? An amateur chef who loves food and has just had the doors flung wide open for him. Ah yes, you won MasterChef, congratulations! You've been hard to get hold of – has fame gone to your head already? No, no. I've been in lots .
Bar dining is the height of fashion, with many restaurants catching on. It’s a good look, but only if you get it right Trendwatchers, particularly those who visit New York with any regularity, will be well aware of the trend for bar dining. ...
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 ...
Breakfast is the perfect time to put distance between yourself and the competition The nature of a successful breakfast service is speed and numbers, getting as many customers in and out as quickly as you can. Employing staff with the right attitude,...
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 ..
Tuna Tataki Kobe Jones Style This is one of our top-selling signature dishes. It is seared with fresh cracked black pepper and sliced as we do sashimi. Instead of a soy-based sauce, I accompany it with a creamy dressing that consists of mayonnaise, ...
Who is he? Managing Director and co-founder of the Fat Cat Group, with Simon Patterson, which has 12 café/bars nationwide. They started the Bluu concept in 1999 and sold it to Marston's Pub Company last year. They used to own the Red House .
Who are you? I'm a middle-aged writer who got lucky and was given the gig as restaurant critic of The Observer, which means people now pay attention to what I do – they didn't when I used to chase criminals. So there was a time when you .
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 ...
All aboard!Restaurant magazine's College Restaurant of the Year Awards for 2007 went with a splash on the Thames It was a night to remember – 100 catering college students celebrating their success on board The Symphony cruising the River ...
Fernando Stovell, Head Chef at the Cuckoo Club in the West End of London, lays out his armoury of essential tools for the kitchen Fernando Stovell worked for four years in the Wellington Club in London before moving to the Cuckoo Club in 2006. ...
From mine to wine, how a military munitions dump became the Wiltshire-based Octavian cellar It's the start of the 20th Century, you've quarried Bath stone and made a big hole, what to do with it now? One old mine in Corsham, Wiltshire, ...
At this time of year, tasting opportunities are almost limitless so generalised tastings, such as the SITT (Specialist Independent Trade Tastings) and FUOR (France Under One Roof), are a very efficient way to taste a huge variety of wines, many ...
As team Arbutus gears up for a summer sequel, Anthony Demetre and Will Smith explain why they're keeping it simple Anthony Demetre and Will Smith have a spring in their step. Little wonder, though; they've just had a bumper year at their Soho...
A new High Court ruling has made the employer liable for any sexual harassment, be it boisterous, discontented or amorous, of their staff at the hands of the public A new law has been passed in which the High Court ruled conclusively that employers ...
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...
How to keep your restaurant and staff in line with the new H&S regulations Three out of five restaurants in the UK admitted putting false information in their health and safety, food safety and fire safety books in order to pass inspections, ...
A successful ‘no reservations' policy means you'll need to learn line management When the L'Atelier concept came to London, it opened with a ‘no bookings' policy normal to chains. That changed only a few weeks after ...
Slow Roast Belly Pork with a Rosti Potato and Brambly Apple Sauce. This dish is very popular. We came up with it four years ago but it's quite a classic because the flavours go so well. Belly pork is quite a trendy meat at the moment, people ...
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, ..
René Redzepi can reel off the names that were once thrown at Noma by ‘friends and colleagues' with a smile. This is partly because Danish chef humour is, it seems, as sharp as our own native variety – a relatively thick skin ...
Fay Maschler ponders the apparent evolution of restaurant PR and finds many a missing link My late, much-missed pal Alan Crompton-Batt was often credited with having invented the profession of restaurant PR. It was in the early 1980s, after he got ...
We tasted nine variations on the theme Porter, apparently, was first drunk in London in the 1730s and became very popular in Britain and Ireland. It declined in popularity in Britain with the advent of pale ales, but continued to grow in popularity ...
Just awarded its first Michelin Star, Roger and Sue Jones' The Harrow at Little Bedwyn in Wiltshire is also known for its extensive wine list. The 900-bin list, ranging in price from £18 to £900, is Roger's, but since he can't .
‘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 .
