Win lunch or dinner at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons up to a value of £250 The H and C News Facebook page as regular visitors will know features beautiful food. H and C News are media partners with Villeroy & Boch who bring you beautiful tableware also regularly featured in our Facebook page. Villeroy & Boch are Partners with ‘Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
Recipe of the Week from Great British Chefs, by Nathan Outlaw
Warm salad of braised cuttlefish with ink vinaigrette by Nathan Outlaw If you like squid, you’ll love cuttlefish, an underutilised product of the sea that’s well worth getting to know because, unlike its other relative octopus, the cuttlefish’s fleshy body is substantial. Nathan Outlaw, whose eponymous Cornish eatery Restaurant Nathan Outlaw has been named Best Fish … [Read more...]
Job of the Week from PJ Search, 50k + great benefits
HOTEL MEETING & EVENTS MANAGER circa £50,000 This is a great opportunity for an experienced Meeting & Events Manager to work for a well known branded Hotel company across a portfolio of over 100 properties based predominantly in the Midlands and South east although there are sites nationally. This role would suit a candidate who has held a similar regional role … [Read more...]
National Chef is Turning Up The Heat In The Kitchen
The National Chef of the Year, which this year is celebrating its 40th anniversary, is the most sought after title for all chefs across the UK. The battle will be on to see who has the talent, flair, skill and passion and can rise to the top of their game to become The National Chef of the Year for 2012. The competition has grown beyond belief, especially since switching to … [Read more...]
Recipe for ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish, ‘sublime’ fillet steak
ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish has certainly found its niche and following amongst celebrated chefs, and we were thrilled to see the judges give their overwhelming vote to Luigi Vespero, head chef at Galvin Bistrot de Luxe in London for his main course. Beef rossini ‘pot au feu’ took pride of place in the recent London heats programme, as he won the coveted place in the London … [Read more...]
Pub groups post positive numbers
Three major pub groups all report positive latest figures. Marston's, the pub operator and brewer, saw like for like sales in its managed pubs grew 7% in the eight weeks to 21 January, with food up 8% and drink sales ahead 6.5%. Douglas Jack, analyst at Numis, commented on Marston's saying that he believed the sales improvement had been volume driven: "With the food spend … [Read more...]
The UK’s best Chinese restaurants
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon by feasting at one of these fabulous restaurants...MSN Food have selected a choice worthy of further investigation...The mark of any decent Chinese restaurant is not necessarily the awards that it's won or its trendy interior, but whether the Chinese community eats there or not. If it's popular then you should be in for a treat. The … [Read more...]
Launch of New BlueTherm Wireless Temperature Probe
Electronic Temperature Instruments launches its New BlueTherm™ Wireless Temperature Probe The BlueTherm™, Electronic Temperature Instruments Ltd new Bluetooth wireless temperature probe, is a completely wireless temperature monitoring and logging solution. The BlueTherm™ probe will securely transmit temperature data up to a maximum of twenty metres to any Bluetooth … [Read more...]
The Chefs Choice Award goes to Villeroy & Boch
The Chef’s Choice Awards name Villeroy & Boch Best Tableware supplier 2012 Villeroy & Boch have been named Best Tableware supplier 2012 in the Chefs’ Choice Awards. Now in their third year, Restaurant Magazine canvasses the views of chefs and restaurateurs across the country, asking them to vote for their top products and services across 21 different … [Read more...]
Recipe of the Week from Great British Chefs, by William Drabble
Griddled South Coast sea bass with Provençal vegetables and basil oil from esteemed Seven Park Place chef, William Drabble. This week’s recipe comes courtesy of Great British Chefs.com and is a colourful Griddled Sea bass dish from renowned Mayfair-based chef, William Drabble. Sea bass has become one of the must-have ingredients for fine-dining eateries in the UK. Perhaps … [Read more...]
Innovate Services reveals findings from Lunch Box Amnesty
Study group reveals only 7% of recorded packed lunches comply with food-based standards for school lunches Innovate Services Ltd, the innovative catering facilities operator to the education sector, has today announced the findings from its initial Lunch Box Amnesty study group into the contents of students’ lunch boxes from a food health and safety perspective, in … [Read more...]
Job of the Week, Reservations Manager 5* London
A 5* hotel in Central London is looking for an experienced Reservations Manager to run their team of reservation agents As Reservation Manager it would be your responsibility to ensure your team are maximising sales and taking advantage of all sales opportunities. You would also be responsible for achieving high occupancy levels and controlling room rates. It would be … [Read more...]
Plans OK’d for eight new restaurants in waterfront scheme
Plans for Southampton’s tallest building has been recommended for approval by the city council. Allied Developments, part owned by the boss of the Carphone Warehouse, plans to build the £74m landmark 28-storey apartment block at Admiral’s Quay. The full scheme consists of three apartment blocs containing 299 homes, connected at ground level, with an elevated terrace and … [Read more...]
Wide array of stylish new London hotels opening in 2012
Last year we saw many new London hotels open, mostly in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games. This year we can see even more, many of which are significant in one or more ways. The openings scheduled this year include the reinvention of the venerable Cafe Royal, a London hotel with more history than most as it was here that Oscar Wilde infamously hallucinated on absinthe … [Read more...]
Chef+ the first smart phone application for chefs
The Staff Canteen Brings Chefs Closer Together with Chef+ This month, the UK’s leading networking site for chefs, The Staff Canteen (www.thestaffcanteen.com), is launching Chef+ the first smart phone application for chefs. Chef+ will be free to all chefs and to premium suppliers listed on The Staff Canteen website. It will enable interaction between chefs and … [Read more...]