The Chester Grosvenor hotel has closed its La Brasserie restaurant for a £350,000 refurbishment, which will see the launch of the city-centre’s only champagne bar.
The six-figure revamp of the John Burton-Race – Restaurant with Rooms in Torquay has apparently caused owner The Richardson Hotel Group to fall into administration.
Holborn Dining Room executive chef and pie maker extraordinaire Calum Franklin is to convert his restaurant’s deli into a pie kitchen that will offer his intricately decorated creations to takeaway via a hatch on High Holborn.
The chef is relaunching his ambitious restaurant, Hudson’s by Craig Atchinson, alongside Craig Rogan (son of L'Enclume restaurateur Simon Rogan) this month.
London’s The Zetter Group is finally heading north after plans to open its first Manchester hotel were approved by the city council yesterday (27 July).
