Collaboration breaks down, but another site is in his sights Alan Yau, owner of the UK's Hakkasan and Yauatcha in London, is no longer to open a Chinese restaurant – Park Chinois – at hotelier Ian Schrager's New Gramercy Park ...
Greenwich Council has approved plans to redevelop Greenwich's historical pier in a £6m scheme which will include three restaurants or cafés. Conran & Partners architects have been commissioned by Stonehurst Estates to build three ...
New Brighton gastropub to serve simple, seasonal dishes The owners of the two Gingerman restaurants in Brighton are to launch a new gastropub called the Ginger Pig. Husband and wife team Ben and Pamela McKellar are planning to create fresh, simply ...
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 ..
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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...
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. ...
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 ..
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...
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
