The first insect restaurant in the UK opened last week – in case you missed it – on the St Davids Peninsular in Wales. The British media descended in force once they learned the menu boasts starters such as bug blinis with wild garlic humus and toasted cumin mealworms and organic salad topped crunchy insect... Continue reading
Category Archives: News
Do it like Nuno Mendes and crowd-fund your own kitchen
Suppose you have have a lifelong dream to start your own restaurant. How do you raise the money? Time was, you had to go to a bank. These days you start a crowd funding campaign. The chef behind one of London’s most popular celeb hangouts is looking to crowdfund a new restaurant with a £1.75... Continue reading
Chris Maccormick launches the Duck Doughnut at Zebranos
For Executive chef Chris Mccormick it has been a long journey from the Directors kitchen at Lehman Brothers bank to a new bar restaurant to a new bar restaurant in Liverpool Street. Zebrano in the City offers fine dining and rave-style DJs, but al they were talking about at the opening last week was... Continue reading
Instant Gourmet meals – just add water
Gastronomic meals used to necessitate an early-morning trip to the market followed by hours of painstaking labour in the kitchen. No longer. France’s top female chef is promoting a machine that turns vacuum-packed capsules into gourmet dishes at the press of a button. Anne-Sophie Pic, the only French woman to boast three Michelin stars, says... Continue reading
Interview with Chef John Topham
Lives? Harrogate, North Yorkshire Age? 52 Career in brief… After school I went to The Sportsmans Arms in Wath near Pateley Bridge to do a proper apprenticeship – as part of that, I also completed seven years of college. Then I made my way to the US for a year travelling. After I’d finished travelling, I moved... Continue reading
Young chefs grow in Kent
With the widespread industry worry about the shortage of chef talent across the UK, entries are being encouraged for the seventh Kent Young Chef Awards. The age range for entries is for school children 11 to 15 years. An extra ingredient is a panel of new guest judges, with a foodie, a former rock musician, two Michelin stars, numerous awards, lots of AA... Continue reading
Nominees for Brighton Food and Drink Awards
Mayve it is a Full English Breakfast that is needed to feed a raging hangover. Or perhaps it is the most family friendly dining or the punchiest cocktail that is urgently required. Whatever the first world dilemma, this year’s food award nominations have all avenues covered. The shortlist for this year’s Brighton and Hove Food... Continue reading
Top chef Luke Tipping supports school cooking competition
A top Birmingham chef has thrown his weight behind a competition aimed at inspiring a new generation of top cooks. Luke Tipping, an award-winning chef at the Michelin-starred Simpsons restaurant in Edgbaston, has signed up to be a judge on the ‘Greens to Gourmet’ cookery challenge. It will see Year 11 pupils from secondary schools across... Continue reading
Meet the Yummy Brummies
Time was when Birmingham’s most celebrated association with food was Spaghetti Junction. It was not a place for gourmets. Indeed, many of its residents could hardly afford to eat out. “In the late 1970s Birmingham collapsed,” said Sir Albert Bore, the leader of Birmingham city council. “We lost 200,000 jobs. Unemployment was at 25% in... Continue reading
Selin Kiazim opens her own restaurant
Selin Kiazim is a chef who is not short of ambition. At 20, she promised herself she would open a restaurant before she was 30; at 25, she made it her aim to revolutionise Turkish cuisine in Britain; now, at 29, she wants her restaurant, Oklava, which opens later this month, to be one of... Continue reading