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What is your favourite UK restaurant? We asked and you answered. A couple of weeks ago, as the UK enjoyed an unusually sunny bank holiday weekend, there was a mini Twitter storm - a swirling social media eddy, if you like - over one of the most recent...
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17 May 2013
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Filed under: Restaurants, Michelin, Chefs, Michelin-starred restaurants, Marcus Wareing, Food Critics, Philip Howard, thesquare, Good Food Guide, Michelin-starred chefs, Brett Graham, Andrew Fairlie, Sat Bains, Tom Kerridge, michaelwignall, lenclume, handandflowers, restaurantandrewfairlie, ledbury, matthewnorman, marcuswareingattheberkeley, thesportsman, restaurantsatbains, midsummerhouse, thelatymer
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Oh, yet another story about the beleaguered stately pile in Hampshire, that is Heckfield Place. As many of you will know, & are probably beyond caring by now to be honest. Heckfield place has had its opening date pushed back more times than you, me...
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Every man loves a list, and the catering world is no different. There is the ritual award season for about 6 weeks in September & early October where AA, Good Food guide & Michelin release their annual guides of movers & shakers domestically...
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Chef Hermes
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27 Apr 2013
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Filed under: Culinary life observations, Michelin, PR, Fat Duck, Rumours and Gossip, Header Image, Gordon Ramsay, Noma, 50 Best restaurants, Rene Redzepi, Can roca, Bo Innovatin, Mugaritz
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Teen chef Luke Thomas has been on everybody’s radar in the culinary world now for about 12months, but on Wednesday night his PR machine reached new limits of promoting the latest stove monkey that thinks he deserves a Michelin star. During the hour long...
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After my period away from Twitter and sometime to reflect, I’ve arrived at the conclusion that a) You, the readers like it when I publish the latest rumours or news first & b) I’m tired of trying to play the PR game. It’s dull &...
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They say a week is a long time in politics, maybe somebody should ask the owners of Noma how a week feels, after being on the end of such an amount of negative publicity about their Norovirus outbreak. Let me introduce the main players: Noma Noma &...
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Earlier this week I posted on the social media about the terrible menu writing that chefs seem to impose on their customers. Whilst there are various ways to describe your dishes chefs, maybe you should just leave the actual writing of them to somebody...
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Chef Hermes
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10 Mar 2013
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Filed under: Culinary life observations, Michelin, Twitter, el Bulli, Fat Duck, Marco Pierre White, Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons, Gidleigh Park, Header Image, Pierre Koffmann, Menus, Le Champignon Sauvage
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This morning there was a pleasant surprise in my email waiting for me. It was an internal document on what to expect from Hartnett Holder & Co, and at four pages long it’s an interesting read. Firstly the name, “Hartnett Holder & Co”...
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As you may have gathered by now, I spend an inordinate amount of time on twitter. And as I sat there watching my twitter feed constantly refreshing, I was thinking ‘what ever happened to the FT & Times lunch offers in January?’. Having...
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I remember (back in the day) when my best mate, who works for a multi-national IT company, said to me “get involved with this, it’s the next big thing”. Being a bit of geek, although this has now increased as time has gone on, I took...
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14 Jan 2013
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Filed under: Culinary life observations, Michelin, Twitter, Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons, Gidleigh Park, Header Image, Marina O'Loughlin, Restaurant critic, Tim Hayward, Jay Rayner, The Caterer, Social Networks, Blogging, Social Media
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Earlier this week I took to the social networks asking: Looking for recommendations. Books for Foodies & chefs for Christmas that have been released this year please. Loads of you responded, for which I’m very gratefully. For chefs there is a far...
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9 Dec 2012
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Filed under: Books, Michelin, Facebook, Twitter, Social Networking, Great British Menu, Header Image, Sat Bains, Martijn Kajuiter, Alan Murchison, Marc Wilkinson, Phil Howard, Sergio Herman
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Over the past couple of months I’ve been following the infamous chef James Stocks. Many of you will remember his ill-fated tenure at the fabulous Balbirnie House in Fife, where he was labelled ‘Walter Mitty’ after Marco Pierre White described him as such...
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Earlier this week I caught up with former two Michelin star chef Richard Neat. There was a rumour circulating, certainly in London, that Richard was going to be around this weekend and doing an impromptu pop up after the Pierre Koffmann tribute dinner...
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Yet another week goes by and some more juicy gossip arrives at my inbox, and as I haven’t posted any for a while it seemed about time. It concerns the beleaguered Heckfield Place near Hook. The Hampshire country pile has suffered a number of set...
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Michelin has released its 2013 guide to Germany and has handed out a host of new stars, announcing one new three- and seven new two-star restaurants. La Belle Epoque in Lübeck-Travermünde has been awarded the top accolade of three stars.... Read More...