The last time Simpson’s in the Strand was refurbed, King Edward VII was on the throne. Now one of London’s oldest and most iconic restaurants has been relaunched with a new look and menu that will bring it into the 21st century.
Self-taught chef Asma Khan has been winning plaudits for her London supper clubs for years and opened her first permanent restaurant, Darjeeling Express, in Soho’s Kingly Court earlier this month.
The French-owned Sushi Shop chain will open sites in Hampstead and Richmond later this year, adding to its current London portfolio of Marylebone, South Kensington and Notting Hill.
The weakened pound and rising cost of fish saw wholesale foodservice price inflation hit 8.8% in June, according to the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index.
Mathieu Germond, former co-owner and restaurant manager of the Pied á Terre restaurant for 14 years, is to open a restaurant in the former Dabbous site in Fitzrovia.
Prezzo was left with a hangover after its all-you-can-drink prosecco promotion was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (the ASA). Here Duncan Reed, legal director at UK law firm TLT, examines why restaurants might need to rethink their marketing...
Further details of the food and drink offerings at The Pilgrm, the upcoming London hotel from a former partner in The Zetter Group, have been announced.
People with food allergies are now more confident about eating out following the introduction of the 2014 allergen laws, according to new research from the University of Bath.
The Pitt Cue co-founder and owner of the newly opened Coombeshead Farm in Cornwall has an obsessive approach to meat sourcing. He spoke at Restaurant magazine’s recent Restaurant Congress about good animal husbandry, the challenges of ensuring he serves...
South African chef Conor Toomey has been appointed head chef at The Isle of Eriska, a five star hotel located on a private island off Scotland’s west coast.
The team behind the south west’s well-regarded Mint Room restaurants are to launch a new casual concept in Bristol’s Cargo 2 development later this month.
Henry Wadsworth from Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons has been named Young Chef of the Year by the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts Annual Awards of Excellence (AAE) 2017.
It’s not hard to find authentic Neapolitan pizza in the capital these days thanks to the rise of wood-fired aficionados that have contributed to London’s burgeoning pizza scene.
School friends Ire Hassan-Odukale and Jeremy Chan open a permanent home for their Jollof cuisine restaurant concept Ikoyi in London’s St James’ Market later this month.
