Restaurants

Nouveauté's new site on the King's Road

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Habitat home store's café concept Nouveauté is rolling out to a third site on the King's Road in London. The in-store concept will open at the end of April and is run by Sally Coyle and Simon Carey, contract caterers. There are ..

Havana Club Añejo Especial, rum that can be enjoyed like a good single malt

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Welcome to the rum renaissance. The base for cocktails, such as the daiquiri, piña colada and mojito, you can now get hold of increasingly complex rum that can be enjoyed like a good single malt. Havana Club's Añejo Especial covers ..

London Brasserie to open third site

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

London Brasseries, the company set up founder Andrew Bonnell, former Managing Director of Tootsies, is to open its third site in as many months, at the Gunwharf Quays' Land Securities £200m mixed-use development on Portsmouth Harbour ...

Guide to purchasing outdoor furniture

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Eternal sunshine is always on our minds these days, whether it's concern about climate change or dreaming about dining alfresco – but it's where you sit that counts If there's one benefit to global warming, it may be that this ...

Give it a try - Xellent Swiss Vodka

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

With the release of Xellent, the Swiss have jumped on the increasingly international Vodka-producing bandwagon. The heavy-looking rubyred glass flask looks more like it contains liquid nitrogen than crystal-clear spirit. It's far better on the ...

Panacea Bar & Restaurant to open sister restaurant in Cheshire

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Panacea Bar & Restaurant in Manchester is to get a new sister restaurant located in Cheshire's Alderley Edge. Panacea Alderley will open in a period building, which was formerly known as Brasingamens, this summer, with total project costs of...

New eco-friendly fish and chip shop

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Tom Aikens' bijou Chelsea empire is set to expand this summer with a new eco-friendly fish and chip shop Tom Aikens is opening a fish and chip restaurant and takeaway in the same area as his two other restaurants in Chelsea in the late summer. ...

Company of Cooks to open Riverside Terrace Café

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Mike Lucy, founder of Company of Cooks and Caper Green companies, has agreed terms to open the Riverside Terrace Café and eight bars in the renovated Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank at the end of May. Under the Company of Cooks ..

Theo Randall at the Intercontinental discusses his wine list

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

It's not every day that restaurants open to more or less rave reviews, particularly when the chef is not that well known outside the ranks of professionals and foodies. Theo Randall at the Intercontinental has done just that. Long time Head Chef...

New kitchen equipment for large restaurants

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Ian Pengelley, Executive Chef at Gilgamesh in Camden, London, gives us the lowdown on his epic search for kitchen equipment Ian Pengelley was not exactly the envy of chefs everywhere when he took on the kitchen at Camden's mighty 365-capacity ...

Six whiskies from outside Scotland, Ireland and the USA

14-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

They're all at it when it comes to whisky – so what's the best of the rest? Remember booze cruises (at least, in principle)? Here's one with a destination other than oblivion. We've looked beyond Scotland, Ireland and the USA to .

Mocotó - London’s first truly modern Brazilian

31-Jan-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Two years after the contracts were signed, ‘London’s first truly modern Brazilian’ is here. When Mocotó opened its doors last week in the site that formerly housed Oliver Peyton's Isola, owner David Ponté, founder ...

Pintxo People opening a site in London

31-Jan-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Pintxo People, the Spanish tapas and fine dining concept that took Brighton by storm last year, is opening a site in London. The London branch, which will be called Pinchito, will open on Featherstone Street, EC1, in mid-March, and because of the ...

All Star Leisure to open more bowling alleys with diners

31-Jan-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Boutique bowling operator All Star Leisure is to open two more bowling alleys with upmarket American diners. All Star Lanes opened in Bloomsbury, last year, headed up by Charles and Adam Breeden of The Lonsdale restaurant in Notting Hill and co-owner...

Give it a try - Voyant Chai Cream

31-Jan-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

Chai, the Indian blend of milky tea and warm aromatic spices, is making its way into many upmarket UK coffee shops, and makes an interesting base for this new cream liqueur. It looks like builders tea and smells like a peculiar mix of dolly-mixture, ..