Restaurant magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards, which are being held at London’s The Hurlingham Club on Monday 10 June.
Italian restaurateur Andrea Reitano, owner of Mayfair's Caffé Rei and Osteria Romana in Knightsbridge, returns to London with pricey premium seafood restaurant Santo Mare.
Hawksmoor's executive chef has a premier league CV that includes spells in some of London's most iconic kitchens, including The Ritz, La Tante Claire and The Capital.
The restaurant group behind London’s Clipstone, Quality Chop House and Michelin-starred Portland is to open a fourth site, in Mayfair, later this month.
Tom Brown’s debut restaurant Cornerstone, in Hackney Wick, celebrates its first birthday on 24 April. Here, the Nathan Outlaw protégé lifts the lid on his first year flying solo.
The restaurateur and co-owner of the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms in Fulham is partnering with the St James’s Hotel Group to open a second restaurant within a Hotel Indigo site later this year.
Leandro Carreira has been named executive chef at The Sea, The Sea, the upcoming London fishmonger and seafood bar from Bonnie Gull co-founder Alex Hunter.
Chef Atul Kochhar and Tina English, former commercial director of the Cinnamon Collective, are planning to open a second Indian restaurant in central London together in the coming months.
It’s hard to believe but the UK ranks 24th in the world when it comes to reducing food waste. Philip Simpson, commercial director of ReFood, the UK’s leading food waste recycler, believes we can do better.
Dan Kenny recently took full responsibility for F&B at trendy Brighton hotel The Set. His changes include ditching the hotel’s set menu concept and introducing a big discount for NHS, teachers and hospitality workers.
French restaurant group Big Mamma has burst onto the London restaurant scene with the bright and bold Gloria. With a second restaurant on the cards, its two founders have big plans for the capital.
The chef-patron at Casa Marcial, a two Michelin starred restaurant tucked in the mountains of Asturias, is also part of the Ibérica restaurant group, which operates eight restaurants across the UK.
The combining of steakhouses Gaucho and M Restaurants will create a “three-pronged approach to expansion across the UK”, according to chief executive Martin Williams.
Approximately 20,000 chefs, roughly 10% of the UK hospitality workforce, are leaving the profession every year, according to a report examining the state of London’s burgeoning food scene.
US-founded fast casual chain The Halal Guys has secured a further London site, in Earl’s Court, following its European debut in Leicester Square last week.
