Fine Dining Restaurant

Former Pollen Street Social chef to head up Frenchie Covent Garden

23-Jul-2019 By Stefan Chomka

Former Pollen Street Social and Corrigan’s Mayfair chef Marcus Rohlen has been named the new head chef at Gregory Marchand’s restaurant Frenchie Covent Garden.

Mikael Jonsson’s Hedone closes

04-Jun-2019 By Joe Lutrario

Mikael Jonsson’s celebrated Chiswick restaurant Hedone has closed to the public. Its last official service was held on Saturday 1 June.

Masterchef 2018 semi-finalist launches restaurant at Hampshire hotel

18-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

Masterchef contestant Greg Emmerson will launch his debut restaurant next month, having secured a hotel site in Hampshire.

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Bar Boulud to reopen on 4 December

10-Oct-2018 By Stefan Chomka

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Bar Boulud will reopen for business at London’s Mandarin Oriental on 4 December, the hotel has announced.

Steve Drake's long awaited new restaurant, Sorrel, will open this week

10-Oct-2017 By Georgia Bronte

The chef will open Sorrel in Dorking, Surrey, tomorrow (11 October).

Restaurant Radar: August 2017

01-Aug-2017 By Sophie Witts & Joe Lutrario

From Clare Smyth's bid to make fine dining cool again to an ambitious relaunch in York, we round-up the August openings you need to know about.

Aiden Byrne turns The Church Green into a grill and eyes Manchester for a fine dining restaurant

01-Mar-2012 By Emma Eversham

Aiden Byrne has decided to change The Church Green, the pub he bought in Lymm three and a half years ago, into a British Grill because it was no longer financially viable to run it as a fine dining restaurant.

Kenny Atkinson at The Orangery to be tasting menu-only restaurant

09-Feb-2012 By Emma Eversham

Kenny Atkinson at The Orangery, the fine dining restaurant at Rockliffe Hall in County Durham, is to only offer tasting menus from now on to help set it apart from the hotel's more relaxed brasserie restaurant and best showcase produce from the region.

How to run a pop-up restaurant: Goodfellows at Glastonbury

11-Apr-2011 By Becky Paskin

Adam Fellows, chef/proprietor of Goodfellows restaurant in Wells, Somerset, launched Glastonbury’s first ever fine dining pop-up restaurant in 2007. He explains how his experience hasn’t put him off running a business in a muddy field just yet.

Rockliffe Hall and Missoni hotels appoint new restaurant staff

02-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham & Becky Paskin

Rockliffe Hall Hotel in Hurworth appoints a new head sommelier for its fine dining restaurant while Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh has a new bar and restaurant manager

Aiden Byrne to open fine dining restaurant

30-Jul-2009 By Andy Lynes

The former Dorchester Grill head chef is set to open his second venture in less than a year - a fine dining restaurant in Cheshire

The Forbury Hotel goes into administration

12-Mar-2009 By Katherine Doggrell

The Forbury Hotel in Reading, the home of chef Daniel Galmiches fine dining restaurant, Eden, has gone into administration.

Boulud is Beijing bound

13-May-2008 By Andy Lynes

Double Michelin-starred New York-based chef Daniel Boulud will open a new fine dining restaurant in China to coincide with the Olympics