Batali given two stars out of blue
23 Nov 2006
Mario Batali’s new Del Posto restaurant has come from nowhere to gain two-star status in the 2007 Michelin guide to New York. ...

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E&O’s Will Ricker opening fifth site
23 Nov 2006
Will Ricker is to open his fifth, restaurant, to be called XO, in Belsize Park in December. The Australian restaurateur has turned a pub in this part of north London into a modern Asian diner, seating 90. ...

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New Difford guide
23 Nov 2006
Edition number six of former Class editor Simon Difford’s cocktail books, known as the ‘diffordsguide’ has been launched. Sponsored by Beefeater gin, it comes in a hardback format to resist splashes on the backbar and runs to 2,000 mixes. Difford has...

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Pommery GILT range
23 Nov 2006
The new GILT Champagne Lounge at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in Knightsbridge, designed on a Champagne theme by Hirsch Bedner Associates and opened earlier this month, is to offer a full range of Pommery cuvées. Chandeliers and the walls of the...

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Top gong goes to Bell
23 Nov 2006
The Bell at Skenfrith on the Welsh borders has won Champagne Taittinger’s wine list award for small hotels, pipping Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham and The Crown at Whitebrook near Monmouth. According to judges the list was ‘a really good read’....

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Unknown chef wins Michael Nadell Pastry Trophy
23 Nov 2006
Chris Corbishley, who is training to become a pastry chef at Stoke-on-Trent College, has won the Michael Nadell Pastry Trophy, sponsored by Champagne Duval-Leroy. ...

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Massey joins Butcher & Grill
23 Nov 2006
David Massey has become head chef at Butcher & Grill, the Battersea meat restaurant with shop attached, after his brief stint at Sonny’s, in Barnes. Prior to Massey, the long-standing head chef was Helena Puolaka. She is now heading the kitchen...

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Gun owners open new venture
23 Nov 2006
Tom and Ed Martin, proprietors of The Gun gastropub in London’s Docklands, are to open a striking, colonial-themed pub in London’s east end. The former name of the establishment, The Empress of India, is to be restored in a return to...

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Edinburgh second-best city for eating out
23 Nov 2006
The best city to eat out in in the UK after London is Edinburgh, according to the Harden’s new restaurant guide. The vegetarian restaurant David Bann, as well as VinCaffe, part of Valvona & Crolla, were among more than 20 venues...

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Rogan buys new Henley site
23 Nov 2006
Simon Rogan is planning a less-pricey version of his Lake District restaurant L’Enclume, in a bid to subsidise his highly rated Cumbrian site at the fine dining level. ...

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