All news articles for August 2017

10 ways to combat food cost inflation

10 ways to combat food cost inflation

By Joe Lutrario

A perfect storm of factors are continuing to propel food prices skyward – average food prices were up 1.4% in June and the same figure last month – and the worst is probably still to come.

Elizabeth Cottam and Mark Owens to open Home in Leeds

Elizabeth Cottam and Mark Owens to open Home in Leeds

By Joe Lutrario

Elizabeth Cottam, a semi-finalist of last year’s MasterChef, and Mark Owens, former head chef at the Michelin-starred The Box Tree in Ilkley, are to open a restaurant in Leeds later this week.

Shoryu Tak Tokumine

Shoryu's Tak Tokumine on souping up his ramen business

By Joe Lutrario

Tak Tokumine opened his first restaurant in 1980 within the Brewer Street building that now houses Mark Hix’s Soho flagship. Located below his Japanese grocer and bookshop, it was to be as inauspicious a debut as they come. 

Henry Harris on his plan for The Truscott Arms

Former Racine chef Henry Harris on his plans for The Truscott Arms

By Joe Lutrario

The former chef-patron of one of London’s most sorely missed French restaurants – Racine in West London - is to oversee the return of The Truscott Arms in Maida Vale. Harris has been employed by the (as yet unnamed) company behind the relaunch as chef...

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When familiarity breeds intent

By Tony Naylor

In a crowded marketplace, original concepts are all the rage. But improving a common product often trumps such innovation, writes Tony Naylor

A Hello Kitty cafe is coming to London

A Hello Kitty cafe is coming to London

By Michelle Perrett

London café group Tombo is taking its love of all things Japanese to another level by launching a Hello Kitty themed pop-up at its Fitzrovia venue.

Opening of the Week: Cubé

Opening of the Week: Cubé

By Michelle Perrett

What to expect at the new Japanese restaurant and bar in London's Mayfair.

By Chloe vegan restaurant London

The Lowdown: By Chloe

By Stefan Chomka

The US vegan chain is landing in Covent Garden this autumn, with rumours of a second site planned for London Bridge.

Latest recipe book reviews

We read it for you

By Stefan Chomka & Joe Lutrario

Restaurant magazine's bookish run down of the latest publications that should be gracing your shelves.

Trial shifts: to pay or not to pay?

Trial shifts: to pay or not to pay?

By Esther Smith

The use of unpaid trail shifts in the industry was thrown into the spotlight last month amid claims that restaurateurs were exploiting workers' rights. Esther Smith from law firm TLT outlines what you need to know about the practice.

Sam Herlihy and James Ramsden

The bird men of London

By Stefan Chomka

The duo behind Michelin-starred Hackney restaurant Pidgin are spreading their wings and heading to the West End to open Magpie. And they’ve got something special up their sleeves.

Toast restaurant to open in Leith

Toast restaurant to open in Leith

By Andrew Don

Veteran hospitality entrepreneur Zak Hanif will open “casual coffee, wine and food experience” Toast in Leith, Edinburgh, tomorrow (8 August).

Credit: Jade Nina Sarkhel

Opening of the week: Minnow

By Sophie Witts

Clapham Common's newest resident has a former Social Wine and Tapas chef heading up the kitchen.

Tilly Ramsay Lowdown

The Lowdown: Tilly Ramsay

By Joe Lutrario

Gordon Ramsay's daughter is moving into the restaurant business with a kid's menu that will be served across the chef's London estate

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