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restaurantonline.co.uk | James McAllister |William Reed
It follows the retirement of former Rockfish NED John Barnes and comes as the South West-based restaurant group prepares to open new sites in Lyme Regis, Salcombe and Sidmouth. Miller, whose previously spent eight years overseeing the marketing strategy at rapidly expanding upscale bakery chain Gail’s, will support Rockfish in its customer engagement and brand building.
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restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario |William Reed
What’s behind the recent shake-up of the menus at Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester? For many years, we offered a £285 seven-course tasting menu only. That is the right option for about 85% of our customers, but over the past few years we’ve noticed a change in attitude from some of our guests, particularly those who visit this sort of restaurant regularly. Some diners want a very high-quality experience that doesn’t take three hours.
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1 week ago | 
restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario |William Reed
What: The new restaurant at the Hastings Contemporary art gallery in East Sussex. Coquina takes its cues largely from Spanish tapas bars, offering a creative-yet-crowd-pleasing menu. The restaurant is from the same stable as BAYTE, which launched in 2023 about a 30-minute walk away in trendy St Leonards-on-Sea. The restaurant is open for lunch from Wednesday to Sunday, and for dinner from Thursday to Saturday, and serves tea, coffee and cake from a counter during gallery opening hours.
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1 week ago | 
restaurantonline.co.uk | James McAllister |William Reed
It is one of two new openings planned by BVC Hospitality, the operator behind Supernova, which launched its first site on Peter Street in Soho in September 2023 and gained viral popularity on social media through its tight menu of US-style smash burgers. Supernova’s will take over a 2,971sq ft site on North Audley Street for its second location in the capital. Alongside this, BVC Hospitality will also launch a new French-focused concept in Mayfair this summer called 74 Duke.
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1 week ago | 
restaurantonline.co.uk | James McAllister |William Reed
In August last year, Bleecker Burger opened its first new restaurant in five years, taking over a site on Tooley Street, just a few minutes’ walk from London Bridge station.
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restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario |William Reed
Tell us about the moment you first became interested in wine. I am from the Thrace region in Turkey, an area that is renowned for its diverse and vibrant wine production, so I grew up with a passion for wine. My favourite teacher at school was a wine producer and owned a vineyard. He specialised in Mavrud, a local grape variety, and his passion and knowledge of wine really inspired me. I could see firsthand how the land, culture, and history intertwined with the wines produced in that region.
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1 week ago | 
restaurantonline.co.uk | James McAllister |William Reed
Writing in its latest accounts on Companies House, the French-based Italian restaurant group said its five-strong London estate, which includes Gloria in Shoreditch, Ave Mario in Covent Garden and Carlotta in Marylebone, had ‘all performed strongly in excess of expectations, driven by strong customer feedback and brand awareness’. The group also opened its first regional site over the year, La Bellezza in Birmingham, which launched in November 2024.
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1 week ago | 
restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario |William Reed
Billed as a celebration of cooking over fire, Pyro will ‘encapsulate the laid back buzzy joy of a Greek taverna’ offering a ‘reimagined and refined’ menu of Greece-inspired dishes.
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1 week ago | 
restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario |William Reed
Meaning ‘new and old’ in Sanskrit, Navateet will explore ‘Indian cuisine through time’, showcasing everything from the dishes of the Mughal era and the British Raj to the more contemporary fare shaped by the migrant communities from the Subcontinent who settled in the UK. Dishes will include paneer Akbari tikka; mint lamb chops; Darjeeling momos; sweet potato Bengali chops; bamboo chicken changrezi with quail’s eggs; Goan venison vindaloo; and Lucknow-style oxtail cooked in a clay pot.
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restaurantonline.co.uk | James McAllister |William Reed
Located next door to Junk’s debut restaurant on Old Compton Street, which launched last autumn, Puffy’s inaugural UK site serves a range of cookie varieties alongside a selection of freshly ground coffees from Origin Coffee. Cookie options include milk chocolate, chocolate trio, dark chocolate, chocolate duo and peanut butter, chocolate duo and hazelnuts, white chocolate and macadamia, and white chocolate and matcha.
