Microbrewery Zerodegrees, which serves pizza, pasta and colouring, preservative and sweetener-free home-brewed black lager, wheat ale and pilsner, is to open a site in Reading in May. It is also planning a ;steady expansion; on two sites in ...
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...
Canteen in London's Spitalfields has won the Observer Food Monthly's Best Restaurant award at the magazine's annual award ceremony, held at Il Bottaccio in London SW1. Its inexpensive modern British menu drew more than 2,500 customers a...
Rebecca Toppin, 16, a student at Carmel Technology College in Darlington, has won the FutureChef 2007 competition, with a menu of Roast Crown of Chicken with a Chunky Vegetable Broth, followed by Orange and Cinnamon Clafouti with Vanilla Ice Cream. ...
Westminster City Council is providing its Chinese restaurants with food hygiene packs in Cantonese and Mandarin to increase the quality of cleanliness in Chinatown and overcome the language barrier faced by non- English-speaking chefs. The packs, ...
Norwich City Council has announced that 53 per cent of the city's restaurants have improved their star ratings in the second year of its Safer Food Award scheme, which gives restaurants star ratings for their levels of hygiene. The scheme ...
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 ...
WHO? | Husband and wife team Jon and Cynthia Coomb have opened this bistro-style restaurant in Reigate, Surrey, on the site that used to be Sweet Potato. The Coombs used to run the Stephan Langton in Friday Street, near Abinger, which held a Michelin...
WHO? | Over three floors of an enormous building that used to be a bank, Duncan Fisher, owner of Newcastle's Apartment and Mr Lynch have arrived in nearby Jesmond with a family friendly gastropub. ON THE MENU? | Crispy Belly Pork rubbed with ...
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...
Brown accused of disguising lack of financial support for small business ventures as IBA is phased out Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget brought few positives for the restaurant industry, with small or new businesses particularly affected by the ...
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 ...
The ‘Nigella Effect' – responsible for increased sales of goose fat, Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, prunes and rhubarb, apparently. And the latest thing? Dining rooms. According to a survey by BDI Property Search, the days of the ...
Joe Levin, Managing Director of the Capital Group, is making a 12 day trek to the North Pole to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. The trek takes place in April, trekking for up to 12 hours a day to cover six to ten miles. Along the way ..
Whitbread has tied up its sale of TGI Friday's for £70.4million to Carlson Restaurants Worldwide. The US firm is likely to tweak the brand's target market to make it more accessible. The company has also announced a slight increase in ...
John Gater, the founder of Ma Potter's, is to rapidly roll out his new concept, Coal Grill and Bar, after recently selling Ma Potter's to Tragus for £14.5m. Coal Grill and Bars opened in Wimbledon and Cardiff late last year. Gater is ...
Conran Restaurants has changed its name to D&D London, following a management buyout by Des Gunewardena and David Loewis which took place last September. The Chairman/Chief Executive and Managing Director respectively bought out 49 per cent of ...
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 ...
Restaurant Week has launched in London, based on the New York event and promoting over 100 restaurants in the Capital London has launched its own Restaurant Week, modelled on New York's, which has just celebrated its 15th year. The promotion has...
New Zealand-born chef restaurateur Peter Gordon of The Providores and Tapa Room in London's Marylebone has organised the ninth dinner in aid of leukaemia charity Leuka. Gordon, who successfully donated his bone marrow to his sister in the early ...
The Wayfarers fine dining restaurant with rooms in Sherborne Causeway, north Dorset, has been sold for an undisclosed figure from an asking price of £475,000 for the freehold interest. The previous owners are moving to France after running the ..
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 .
WHO? | Chef Marco Torri and Manager Giovanni Baldino, two young Italians opening their first independent restaurant in Mayfair, with business partner Marino Roberto, serving modern Italian cooking. Torri, originally from northern Italy, was Head Chef...
WHO? | First UK restaurant for French restaurateur Christophe Moro. The head chef is Eric Malissin. ON THE MENU? | A range of soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts and a fine selection of pound cakes baked daily and ranging in flavour from Cheddar, Fig...
WHO? | All day, trad French café, bar and brasserie, brought into being by Pascal Even, former Executive Head Chef of the Bleeding Heart in Farringdon, and Walter LeCocq, former GM at Lindsay House. ON THE MENU? | Fricassée of Snails ...
WHO? | The relaunch of Paul Corrett's Maggiore, originally opened in 2001, featuring a more Mediterranean-style menu, care of Head Chef Marcellin Marc, previously of Le Clos de la Violette in Provence. ON THE MENU? | Dorset Crab with Marjoram, ...
The winner of the recent Bocuse d'Or competition has been accused by competing chefs of breaking the rules, following allegations regarding containers of food brought in just before the competition started. French chef Fabrice Desvignes took the...
The winner of the Knorr Scottish Chef of the Year has been named as Pamela Fowlis, a chef lecturer at Adam Smith College in Glenrothes. Fowlis is the first woman to win the title, beating nine other finalists in a live cook-off in the ScotHot ...
The founders of Arbutus in London's Soho are close to signing on their second central London site, which they hope will open in the old Drone's site in Mayfair in May or June. The new, as yet unnamed site, will serve similar food to Arbutus...
‘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 .
The Walnut Tree Inn near Abergavenney in Wales has closed and it is uncertain whether it will reopen. The restaurant's website apologised to customers for closing at short notice and said it is ;closed temporarily pending some ...
Hot on the heels of As You Like It in Jesmond, which marked the arrival of Newcastle's first gastropub, the city's Black Door Group has announced tentative plans to expand its empire in a similar direction. Despite having lost out on a ...
‘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 ...
