Grasmere’s The Forest Side welcomes its new head chef on 19th November, Paul Leonard. The Michelin-starred, four AA Rosette restaurant will also be revealing its new menu developed by Paul and his team.Leonard has cooked under Marcus Wareing and Andrew Fairlie, precious experience for any chef. Leonard gained further experience in his first Head Chef role, he shaped … [Read more...]
Menu announced for Asian chef and restaurant owners menu development day
The chefs in the kitchen for the Asian Restaurant Owners Network Open Kitchen Live Menu Development Day have been busy testing, tasting and preparing, and now we are delighted to publish details.The chefs in the kitchen are from Rational and the Asian Restaurant Owners Network. The day will not just be providing a feast of flavours from Asian cuisine, they will be … [Read more...]
Raising British Game for Hampshire Medical Fund
The Purefoy Arms in Preston Candover, Hampshire, is celebrating Great British Game Week, 25th November – 1st December, with a special ‘Raising the Game’ Menu that will donate 40% of profits to Hampshire Medical Fund.The 3-course menu is a feast of wild British game sourced by the pub’s local gamekeeper. Great British Game Week encourages people to taste game for the … [Read more...]
Liverpool rock ‘n’ roll dining concept to open rewarding online bookings with 50% discount
We really like this new opening as it has a distinct USP that will garner attention and bookings, doubtless that the perceived cool of being in the ‘online know’ will help too. The Bold Street bar and live music venue Jimmy’s has announced plans for an all-new dining concept at its Liverpool city centre location. Jimmy’s will be adding to its portfolio with a South American … [Read more...]
Plant based menus and embracing no-alcohol culture required to cater for food and drink trends 2020
Black pepper ice cream, coconut ceviche and Japanese whisky highballs are just a few of the trends predicted to be popular in 2020 with US diners. More health ingredients and plant-based menus will rise to the top, and lower-alcohol spritzes will take centre stage at bars.From ingredients like seaweed, ashwagandha and nutritional yeast to dishes like fresh, elevated … [Read more...]
Bakery holding up UK foodservice with vegan showing growth
Research from The NPD Group says the popularity of savoury and sweet bakery in the UK is helping to increase eating out visits. For the wider UK out-of-home foodservice market, overall visits were up a meagre +0.3% for year ending September 2019, and they were down -0.3% the previous year.The UK’s eat-out market has the slowest growth of the top five European markets … [Read more...]
The Grill at The Dorchester reopens to a new chapter in the restaurant’s 88 year history
Culinary institution The Grill at The Dorchester has officially reopened its doors to a new chapter in the restaurant’s 88 year history. Head Chef Tom Booton, who has the honour of being The Dorchester’s youngest ever Head Chef, presents his interpretation of a modern-day British grill.Offering a more relaxed approach to the dining experience, the legendary dining room … [Read more...]
Mental health training for all managers at Stonegate
Today sees the launch of a partnership between the Stonegate Pub Company and the Licensed Trade Charity to provide mental health training for over 1,000 team members.Starting today and running to April 2020, all of Stonegate’s general managers and line managers of pub support teams will participate in this face-to-face training workshop, to become mental health champions. … [Read more...]
The retiring rooms of India’s train stations inspires new subterranean bar opening
The Retiring Room, a new subterranean bar from Samyukta Nair inspired by the retiring rooms of India’s train stations, will open its doors for the very first time at the end of November.Tucked underneath Bombay Bustle on Mayfair’s Maddox Street, the celebratory opening night will see award-winning bartender Didier Van den Broeck behind the bar for one evening only, as … [Read more...]
SSP expanding brand outlets at London’s Euston Station
SSP Group is opening two new brand outlets, Tortilla and Starbucks at London’s Euston Station in early December. The new Tortilla unit will be the brand’s first in a travel location.Tortilla is the UK’s largest fast casual Mexican restaurant chain, launched by two Californians in 2007 after a four-year search across London to find the burritos and tacos they’d experienced … [Read more...]
Borough Market sees new opening of Batera, a pintxos bar next week
Later this month, the husband and wife team behind Mimo, the award-winning cookery school and chef’s table, will launch Batera, a pintxos bar at The Borough Market Kitchen.Meaning ‘together’ in Basque, Batera will draw on the culture of the pintxos bars that line the streets of the old town in San Sebastian, where Jon and Nicole Warren founded Mimo. The bar will … [Read more...]
Five minutes with… Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson took over as managing director of warewashing and food waste handling solutions business Meiko UK from Bill Downie in April 2017, a move which saw him return to the brand he had worked with as a regional sales manager 15 years previously. Paul has had close associations with the hospitality industry throughout his almost 30-year career, starting out with a fine … [Read more...]
Camerons today announce latest acquisition adding to its retail managed pub estate
Camerons Brewery have today announced the acquisition of the Bar Soba group, the acquisition adds 5 venues in the UK, seeing the brewer’s retail managed pub estate increase to 34 sites. Bar Soba has three venues in Glasgow and one in Edinburgh and Leeds.Chris Soley, chief executive at Camerons Brewery said of the acquisition: “This is a deal we have been working on for some … [Read more...]
A window on Richard Corrigan’s Daffodil Mulligan opened earlier today
Today, Chef Richard Corrigan, opened his third London restaurant, Daffodil Mulligan in Old Street, alongside John Nugent and Tony Gibney. The Irish trio, who have over a century of hospitality experience combined, acquired the site previously known as Nuala in July 2019. The 50-cover restaurant includes an oyster bar seating eight guests and a basement saloon bar which … [Read more...]
