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The GFG Briefing | 16 February 2018
News this week including a new venture for former Walnut Tree head chef Roger Brook and a second opening for Mexican brand El Pastor
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News this week including a new venture for former Walnut Tree head chef Roger Brook and a second opening for Mexican brand El Pastor
It came as a complete surprise when, post-lockdown, Frances Atkins, the former owner and chef of the Yorke Arms at Ramsgill in Nidderdale, moved from her sophisticated restaurant with rooms to a café run from a silver Airstream caravan in the grounds of a garden centre near Harrogate.
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Michel Bourdin, who has sadly died at the age of 80, arrived at The Connaught in 1975 and spent 26 years in charge of the kitchens. He did a remarkable job reworking classic principles and maintaining a grandeur in the cuisine to match the hotel’s Edwardian splendour. Here you could eat the spectacular chartreuse de gibiers à l’ancienne made in the old manner, as well as steak and kidney pie and perhaps the best bread and butter pudding in London. A rigidly enforced dress code occasionally made the headlines, too. An ‘exceptional’ restaurant in its day.
The pandemic shook up the world as we knew it, but two years later many people and projects are settling happily into their new places. One such example is chef Frances Atkins who has just opened the doors to her new venture, Paradise. We sent Chloë Hamilton to investigate.