This week's celebrity restaurant opening news -
@usainbolt
is opening a place in Spitalfields and the downstairs bar is planning to get a LOT of Jamaican rum in
@TomSeymour
@axelk
Fascinated by this. Went to look at what the Smithsonian was paying by comparison and they've got a writer/editor job starting at £78k
I don’t think we’ve ever done a personal post on Instagram but we’re breaking the habit to honour our mum who died yesterday after a long illness with Alzheimer’s.
What we’re trying to do is remember all the good stuff. The way she always used to blag u…
And finally...
#NewThisWeekend
- the happy union of
@HRWright
and
@ruddofcumbria
. Massive congratulations on today's wedding and here's wishing a lifetime of happiness for the pair of you.
She may be
@michelrouxjr
's daughter but Emily Roux's plans for her first London restaurant are for something 'accessible' and not 'quite fine dining' - story here (via
@BigHospitality
)
Big news:
@tomoldroyd_
is getting ready to open a second restaurant in Hackney. We've got the scoop on The Duke of Richmond Public House & Dining Room right here
A hot new opening coming up for Holloway Road as
@SambalShiok
get ready to open their first restaurant. Best of all this laksa bar takes bookings, has a
@bittenwritten
wine list & is planning an epic weekend brunch
@CaitNoone
@tomdoorley
We recently found this menu from our parents’ wedding breakfast in 1961 - at the Great Southern in Galway (now the Meyrick). The focus on provenance back then surprised us.
We've rounded up all the London restaurants we could find offering free children's meals and packed lunches for half term for
@MarcusRashford
's
#endchildfoodpoverty
campaign - each one links to the offer with details on how to get it. Please reshare.
My flat overlooks the outside space of a refugee hostel and the kids there are going absolutely crazy in the snow right now. It is quite something. ❄️☃️
I tell you what you want, what you really really want (sorry) - Victoria Beckham headlines the designers in the Autumn/Winter collection of
@TheBerkeley
's Pret a Portea
Enjoying this by
@Sathnam
in the Times today. Trying to be be the person who pays the bill at any gathering of our Irish relatives is EXACTLY the same. Glorious to be the victor.
Of course you could join the rest of London heading home in the snow, or you could seize the opportunity to see if any of London's hardest to get into restaurants have a table tonight. Just a suggestion....
Genuinely terrifying landing at Gatwick tonight. Major props to the BA pilot who got us (eventually) down on the ground safely. Which prompted the only justified clapping on the landing of a plane.
#StormIsha
A relationship lived out in London's restaurants and bars - something personal about what's been happening with me outside of Hot Dinners starting with Dionysus Kebabs and taking in Claridges, the River Cafe and more...