Fine Dining
This showcases our coverage of the fine dining sector across the UK, including chef-led restaurants, tasting menu concepts, and premium hospitality operations. We report on restaurant launches, Michelin accolades, leadership changes, and service innovations, as well as the commercial realities of running high-end venues. With insights into pricing models, sourcing standards, experiential service, and guest expectations, this is essential for chefs, restaurateurs, and executives operating at the luxury end of the foodservice market.
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May- 2021 -18 MayGovernment
Sadiq Khan launches London Eats campaign
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has launched the London Eats campaign to celebrate the capital’s best culinary offerings. The inaugural stage of the mayor’s year-long Let’s Do London campaign, London Eats features street food and fine dining, food markets and drinks festivals, exclusive interviews, food trails, tube announcements, and…
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6 MayCatering Companies
Galvin brothers set for Glyndebourne partnership
RA Venues has announced that the Michelin-starred Galvin brothers are set to partner with Sussex opera house Glyndebourne for its 2021 festival, set to run from 20 May to 29 August. The contract will see Chris and Jeff Galvin provide their La Chapelle dishes to the venue’s fine dining restaurant,…
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Apr- 2021 -27 AprilFeatures
Luxury dining in the wake of a pandemic
The taste of widely delicious food, a hypnotising tinkle of jazz piano and the reassuring pop of a bottle of the finest red – the luxury dining experience seems, for many of us, a distant memory. However, with vaccine production and distribution well and truly underway, this indulgent practice might…
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19 AprilAdvice
Gourmet on-demand: The expanding delivery app market
Before the pandemic struck, businesses were lurching towards a new on-demand world, with rising apps making all manner of services available at the click-of-a-button. This was undoubtedly accelerated by Covid-19, as people sheltered at home and businesses looked for ways to adapt and continue to function despite the confines of…
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12 AprilRestaurants
The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant appoints new head chef
The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant has announced the appointment of Mark Donald as head chef. Donald will join the restaurant from his position at Number 1 at The Balmoral in Edinburgh, where he has retained the Michelin star until he departed in 2021. The restaurant is located in the heart of…
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Feb- 2021 -25 FebruaryFeatures
Local food suppliers and their consumer-driven industry
Recent months have seen the UK’s supply chains across all sectors hit from two sides at once. The UK’s food industry is one of those sectors where the combined challenge of Brexit and Covid-19 is most prevalent. However, by turning to local produce, both businesses and individuals could reap the…
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Dec- 2020 -7 DecemberNews
RA Group closes Roux at Parliament Square
Roux at Parliament Square, a Westminster restaurant, has announced its permanent closure in a statement on its website. The 60-cover restaurant is part of RA Group’s fine dining and public restaurants operations that is run in partnership with the Roux family. The website’s statement said: “Our restaurant has regrettably suffered…
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Nov- 2020 -17 NovemberNews
Richard Galli joins Poké the Bear as executive chef
Michelin Star chef Richard Galli has announced he will be joining hospitality and TV personnels Calum Best and Fraser Carruthers at the delivery only poké kitchen, Poké the Bear. Galli will be based at the restaurant chain’s second site, in London, Clapham. The previous Goring Hotel executive chef will bring…
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Oct- 2020 -27 OctoberPeople
Cameron House appoints Zoltan Szabo as executive chef
Cameron House Resort has announced the appointment of Zoltan Szabo as executive chef. The appointment comes ahead of the resorts reopening in 2021, At the helm of culinary operations of Cameron House Resort, the resort said Szabo has been appointed to lead the creative team to “further elevate” the five-star…
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Sep- 2020 -29 SeptemberFood and Drink
Harwood Arms becomes first Michelin star site to offer vegan meat
The Harwood Arms has partnered with plant-based meat company THIS to become the UK’s first Michelin star restaurant to offer vegan meat on its menu. The menu at the London gastropub will now feature the “meat-free Glamorgan scotch egg”, using THIS plant-based bacon to “mimic the taste, texture and appearance”…
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