Restaurants

Future Systems working with the new-look Scott's restaurant

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

What the team behind Lord's media centre did for the new-look Scott's Scott's, London's classic seafood restaurant and oyster bar, was afforded a rapturous welcome back just before Christmas, when it reopened after just under three...

The difference between old wines and new wines

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

The division of the wine world into ‘Old' and ‘New' is useful. New World wines can come from almost anywhere outside Europe, but around the margins is room for ambiguity. Take Georgia, it's not Europe, it claims 5,000 years of .

The George Hotel, transformed to 16-room boutique hotel with restaurant

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

WHO? | Sue Hawkins, former proprietor of the Fox and Goose Inn in Armscote, has transformed a rundown old coaching inn in Shipston-on-Stour into a 16-room boutique hotel with restaurant. Head Chef Richard Tustian is fresh from Quarto's Restaurant...

Hakkasan and Yauatcha looking for another site

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

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 ...

Plans to redevelop Greenwich's historical pier including three restaurants

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

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

28-Feb-2007 By BigHospitality Writer

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 ...

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...