BOCA recently announced Patricia Roig as its new executive chef. Roig, will oversee both BOCA and La Taperia by BOCA. The chef has more than two decades of experience working in kitchens around the world. These include ROKA London, Lima Floral London, Central Restaurante in Lima, Peru and Newman Street Tavern, also in London. Roig […]

Alma sees the high-end greengrocer teaming up with James Beard finalist Graison Gill who was behind the award-winning Bellegarde Bakery in New Orleans. Together they have a mission that they state is all about reinstating “the integrity of wheat by freshly milling on site and baking flavour-first, whole-grain loaves at a scale that will have […]

Jason Atherton is planning to open a ‘flagship restaurant’ in Mayfair. The restaurateur, who’s currently behind six restaurants in London,  Row on 5 will take over two floors of a new building on Savile Row. The concept is “a culinary voyage” involving a multi-course dining experience. On the ground floor, there’s a mix of counter […]

Chef Sam Moody has revealed further details of plans to open his own restaurant in County Laois. Posting on Instagram, the chef revealed he had taken on and is refurbishing the Bramley building in the town of Abbeyleix. “We’re going to do our best to be open at the end of the month,” he said. […]

Following on from the huge success of their Dior Cafe and Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama pop-up, Harrods are at it again. They’ve just unveiled their latest designer collaboration – the Prada Caffè. Open all day, serving everything from breakfast through to cocktails and bites for aperitivo, the cafe will be on the ground floor […]

Jeremy Chan was born in northwest England but spent his childhood traveling across Europe, the United States and Hong Kong. Self-taught to speak six languages fluently as a teenager, Chan is majoring in Philosophy and Language Theory at Princeton University. Adding Persian to the languages he speaks here, the chief starts his master’s degree in […]