The New World Trading Company(NWTC), the Living Ventures and Hill Capital backed business, has firmed up its plans to accelerate its launches and more than double the number of operating units during the current year. Created in 2011, NWTC currently has 4 sites: 2 Botanists in Alderley Edge and Leeds (pictured above), an Oast House in Manchester and the most recent opening, … [Read more...]
PizzaExpress plays cupid with Valentine’s Day pizza making parties
PizzaExpress is teaming up with MySingleFriend to play cupid on Valentine’s Day by creating a series of single events, to help the 17.8 million singletons currently in Britain find the partner of their dreams! PizzaExpress will be opening its doors exclusively to mysinglefriend.com members for a series of romantic Pizza Making Parties on 14 February. The events will see 10 … [Read more...]
Grain Store’s Winter Feast
Each season, Bruno Loubet invites a different collaborator to host a one-off feast at Grain Store which explores and celebrates that season. This Winter, Bruno is focusing on some very special food producers. First up is the Butter Viking, Patrik Johansson, joining Bruno from Sweden. Those lucky enough to hear him speak at Mad Camp were enthralled and entertained by his mad … [Read more...]
Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner closes after outbreak of sickness bug
Heston Blumenthal has decided to close his two Michelin star London restaurant, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. The restaurant will be closed from Sunday 2 February 2014 for one week after an outbreak of norovirus. The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park website home page simply published this notice – ‘Dinner by Heston Blumenthal will be closed from Sunday 2 February 2014 for one … [Read more...]
High demand: Newcastle Restaurant Week becomes Two Weeks
Only two days into NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant Week (Tuesday 28 January) and NE1’s getintonewcastle website has recorded its largest number of visitors ever with over 100,000 logging on so far this month to take advantage of the restaurant offers, a staggering 68% increase on the same period last year. The 100k visitors would suggest that over a 1/3 of all Geordies are taking … [Read more...]