When he started cooking classic French food at the Berkshire village pub The Crown at Burchetts Green five years ago, Simon Bonwick says he was almost mocked for offering a style of food that was “so obvious”.
A Galvin brothers closure, Heston pop-up and new Hawksmoor opening are amongst this week’s news...
Chef Andrew Sheridan is returning to his Worcestershire hometown of Barnt Green to open Black & Green, a 16-seater neighbourhood restaurant serving 'modern interpretations of British flavours’. The weekly changing menu will be based on local ingredients from ‘micro suppliers and neighbours’, and will - of course - have a strong focus on sustainability.
Glynn Purnell to launch new restaurant in a Coventry monastery, Magpie in Mayfair closes, Galvin brothers make way for Mark Greenaway in Edinburgh and Rowley Leigh appointed culinary director of new West London opening
From chief potato-scraper for his mum to ruler of The Ritz’s famous kitchen, a life in food has made this chef ‘the luckiest man on earth’
