The chef Toby Burrowes has left his head chef role at the glitzy Japanese concept Zuma to open his own restaurant in Mayfair, London. Currently unnamed, the chef told CODE he has taken over the former Street XO site on Burlington Street and is readying to launch in the next couple of months.
Exeter is a city encircled by tremendous rurality. Travel south, and there are prime scallops landed daily into Brixham. Head north, east or west, and you will soon arrive at rolling Dartmoor, find a small farm, or hit a keenly traversable coastline replete with cattle and sheep. It is, then, a place within easy reach of great ingredients, and in the city’s culinary landscape it is being increasingly turned into something memorable. Here, the West Country’s Mark Taylor earmarks numerous establishments worth visiting.
On a national stage, Newcastle is often gazed upon through a stereotypical haze of black and white stripes, sausage rolls and stag parties. The locals who know its streets intimately cherish the former port city’s rich architectural heritage and bounteous culinary scene.
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