Archive for the ‘Restaurants’ Category

As it’s Sunday, here are the 10 best places for Sunday Roasts

Just found this in MSN food, the 10 best places to go to enjoy a Sunday Roast, enjoy here’s the link

Raymond Blanc’s Brasserie Bar gets £6M funds for growth

Brasserie Bar Co, the group behind the Raymond Blanc-inspired Brasserie Blanc and White Brasserie Company, has secured a new £6 million facility from Barclays to support its expansion and development plans. This comes after Brasserie Bar Co’s recent acquisition of eight former Chez Gerard sites in London including the iconic Opera Terrace restaurant at Covent [...]

Get to know Malbec for Malbec World Day 2012

Celebrate Malbec World Day on 17 April and find out why Argentina’s signature grape makes such a great match for steak. Call it serendipity, call it geographical coincidence – in Argentina, the passion devoted to beef endows it with an almost religious status, so it’s appropriate that this South American country is also home to [...]

Prezzo openings will create 350 new jobs in 2012

Pizza and pasta restaurant chain Prezzo has outlined more ambitious expansion plans after serving up a 14% rise in profits. The chain, which operates 189 restaurants, said underlying profits hit £16.4 million in the year to January 1, helped by the opening of 27 new sites and strong trading in the final quarter of the [...]

Great British asparagus season at Boyds Brasserie

£23.8 million was spent on asparagus in 2011, proving that Brits love the spear-shaped vegetable. And as asparagus aficionados will testify, young British asparagus is among the tastiest and most nutritious in the world. So it’s great news that British asparagus season is just two months away. To celebrate this, Boyds Brasserie will be creating [...]

Anton Mosimann hosts lunch at The Clink

On Thursday 26th April 2012, legendary Swiss Chef, Anton Mosimann OBE, will be offering his support and culinary expertise to The Clink Charity as he hosts an exclusive fundraising lunch at The Clink Restaurant, within the walls of H.M.P High Down, Surrey, to raise awareness, support and funds for the charity. Mosimann, world renowned chef [...]

The Box Tree celebrates 50 years of excellence

Marco Pierre White was in Ilkley on 20 March with old friends, Simon and Rena Gueller, to celebrate 50 years of The Box Tree. Guests enjoyed an evening of Champagne and canapés as they reminisced five decades of success in the restaurant which helped kick-start Marco’s career some 30 years ago. In 1962 two culinary [...]

Recipe of the Week from Great British Chefs, by Nathan Outlaw

This week’s recipe of the week is Whole Dover sole with a tarragon and lemon stuffing and potato dumplings from Cornwall based chef, Nathan Outlaw and courtesy of www.greatbritishchefs.com Nathan Outlaw is one of Britain’s most gifted chefs, known for his love of seafood. In this recipe Dover Sole is stuffed with a citrus and [...]

Marco Pierre White and Frankie Dettori collaborate on new hotel and restaurant development

Work is now underway on a multimillion pound hotel and restaurant development at Exeter International Airport. Contractor Denizen has begun initial works to build the new Hampton by Hilton hotel and Marco Pierre White Frankies New York Italian restaurant – a collaboration between celebrity chef Marco Pierre White and champion jockey Frankie Dettori. The 120-bedroom [...]

Research shows a battle for brands as fewer eat out

The latest data from independent foodservice research agency The NPD Group shows that out of home meal and snack visits in the UK have contracted by -6.0% since 2008, and are unlikely to recover to pre-recession levels in the next 18-24 months.  As the UK’s foodservice brands fight to maintain market share, The NPD Group’s [...]

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