Restaurant Magazine

D&D London has said it is continuing to assess ‘the performance and viability’ of its estate after seeing turnover drop and losses rise significantly in its latest financial results

The general manager at recently-launched Edinburgh fine dining restaurant on Amor Per La Terra, the Canary Islands and a badly corked Albariño.

With new ventures from Gordon Ramsay, Richard Caring and Jeremy King, as well as the arrival of international brands likes of Carbone and Shanghai Me, 2025 is shaping up to be another banner year for new restaurant openings

The Groucho in London's Soho is to reopen after having its licence reinstated following a review by Westminster Council's licensing committee.

Fried chicken brand Wingstop is back in the black having reported a pre-tax profit of £3.5m in its latest financial results, up from a £2m loss the year before.

Hampshire’s Hambledon Wine Estate will launch a new restaurant and tasting room early next year. The 40-cover space will be led by former Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and The Samling chef Nick Edgar and James Osborn, who has held senior management roles at other English wineries including Squerryes Wine Estate in Kent.

This year was marked by plenty of big restaurant openings, as well as, sadly, many high-profile closures, as operators faced ongoing cost pressures and an increasingly tough trading landscape.

Ibérica being sold out of administration, Chotto Matte closing its Marylebone site and Isaac McHale's next venture lead this week's top news stories.

Kappo-style Japanese restaurant Sachi has returned to Belgravia as one of three new ventures within the former Pantechnicon site, which now trades as 19 Motcomb Street.

KFC is to launch a new spinoff concept in Orlando, Florida, next week that it says is ‘unlike anything else in the market' and has the potential for further rollout.