Celebrity chefs
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Spanish chef Ferran Adrià and his El Bulli business partner Juli Soler are to appear in court over allegations that they unethically bought out a former shareholder. The heirs of Miquel Horta, a former investor and shareholder in the iconic restaurant on the Costa Brava...
Posted: 09 May 2012 | 09:55
England footballer Steven Gerrard has teamed up with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to call on the Government to tackle the obesity crisis through cookery education in schools. The school meals champion and the Liverpool midfielder have joined forces with leading figures in health and education as signatories to a letter to the prime minister.
Posted: 08 May 2012 | 11:04
Celebrity chef Nick Nairn is set to open his new cookery school in Aberdeen next week. Nairn, who already has a school in Port of Menteith, Stirling, will launch the new school in Back Wynd in the heart of the city on 12 May...
Posted: 04 May 2012 | 09:55
Heston Blumenthal has reaped a significant financial reward from his growing restaurant empire, after his company paid out a big dividend to its directors for the first time. SL6 released a £750,000 dividend, according to its latest annual accounts.
Posted: 01 May 2012 | 13:28
Cucina managing director Steve Quinn has hit back at Jamie Oliver's latest attack on Michael Gove's attitude to school food standards, arguing that it may fool the public into thinking that not much has been achieved in raising nutritional standards in academies...
Posted: 01 May 2012 | 11:47
Six top chefs have made a film to promote British food as part of VisitBritain's Great Britain campaign. The film, made in association with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA), features Raymond Blanc, Brett Graham, Ruth Rogers, Atul Kochhar, Angela Hartnett and Fergus Henderson.
Posted: 30 April 2012 | 14:24
Michelin-starred chef Brett Graham is to cater for more than 150 top British chefs, restaurateurs and food producers at a reception at Number 10 Downing Street today. The event will launch VisitBritain's Food is Great, a key element of its GREAT Britain campaign, in partnership with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).
Posted: 30 April 2012 | 11:46
Gregg's Table - the new restaurant from MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace, which has received a barrage of negative reviews since opening at the end of February - has appointed a new head chef. Spanish-born chef Jordi Vila, 34, has joined the restaurant in the four-AA-star, 80-bedroom Bermondsey Square hotel, London.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 14:32
René Redzepi, from the world-famous Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, is to run a two-week pop-up at London's Claridge's hotel this summer. The two-Michelin-starred chef, whose restaurant has twice been named the best in the world, will run A Taste of Noma at Claridge's from 28 July to 6 August.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 10:36
Celebrity chef James Martin is to launch his new range of in-flight meals for Thomas Cook Airlines on 1 May. The BBC1 Saturday Kitchen host has developed a menu for the airline featuring traditional dishes such as bacon and eggs for breakfast, and slow-braised British beef with baby onions and herb dumplings for dinner .
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 17:40
Celebrated Indian restaurateurs Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala, owners of London restaurant Café Spice Namasté, have teamed up with events caterer Moving Venue. The new partnership will see the two companies cater for private and corporate events at more than 50 locations served by Moving Venues.
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 11:11
Gordon Ramsay is set to expand to the Middle East, with the launch of two new restaurants at the St Regis hotel in Doha, Qatar. The celebrity chef will launch Gordon Ramsay Doha and Opal by Gordon Ramsay in May. The openings will mark Ramsay's return to the Middle East...
Posted: 18 April 2012 | 16:57
Jamie Oliver is to open a Union Jacks restaurant in London's Covent Garden after taking over a site in the historic Market Building. Set to open in July, the new restaurant will occupy 3,500 sq ft, over two floors in the North Hall of the Market Building...
Posted: 18 April 2012 | 14:22
Gidleigh Park executive chef Michael Caines has called on restaurants throughout England to back a new fundraising scheme for industry charity Hospitality Action (HA), of which he is a patron. The charity is looking for a wide network of restaurants to encourage diners to add a discretionary £1 to their bill.
Posted: 17 April 2012 | 13:01
Fifteen Cornwall has appointed Matthew Thomson as its new chief executive. Thomson, who takes up the position today, joins the Jamie Oliver-inspired initiative from the London Community Resource Network, where he was chief executive. He replaces Dave Meneer, who left after more than four years.
Posted: 16 April 2012 | 07:00
Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) has raised nearly £50,000 for restaurant charity StreetSmart in its 2011 Christmas campaign. StreetSmart and its sister charity SleepSmart raise money for the homeless by asking diners and hotel guests to add £1 to their bill.
Posted: 12 April 2012 | 14:30
Three-Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud is suing a Buffalo-based music club and restaurant over the use of the DBGB name. The French US-based celebrity chef has filed a case against the owners of Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar in New York over their use of the initials DBGB, which Boulud trademarked in 2009 for his DBGB Kitchen & Bar in New York.
Posted: 12 April 2012 | 09:42
When Angela Hartnett cooked at an all-female event in Brazil, she decided to hold a similar festival in London, with the help of food and wine writer Fiona Sims and in partnership with American Express. Joanna Wood reports
Posted: 05 April 2012 | 17:19
Celebrity chef Aldo Zilli has sold his two remaining London restaurants to Bill's Produce. The chef, who formerly ran seven outlets, has decided to bow out of the London restaurant scene after selling Zilli Fish and its adjacent Zilli Café on Brewer Street in Soho. He still has four sites at Center Parcs.
Posted: 05 April 2012 | 11:22
Alyn Williams, Ben Spalding, Jose Pizarro, Russell Brown, Phil Thompson, Mickael Weiss and Mark Poynton are among the big-name chefs that will cook at a fundraising dinner for mental health charity CALM, it has been revealed. The event will be held at Floridita in London's Soho at the end of the month.
Posted: 04 April 2012 | 18:01
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