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 .
‘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 ...
As new laws make employers liable for employing illegal workers, the Home Office offers some guidance The Home Office has launched a new toolkit to help restaurateurs who hire migrant workers to stay on the right side of the law. This follows the ...
