For the Ultimate Spa Experiences and Spa Gift Packages Following a year of collaboration with leading luxury restaurant and hotel site – Design Restaurants announces the launch of Design Spas, its luxury online spa guide featuring the finest spa packages from around the world. Perfect for spa enthusiasts and gift buyers looking for the ultimate…
Read MoreSunday Times Top 100 Restaurants in Britain 2011
View the full Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants in Britain 2012 here. The Sunday Times published its bi-annual guide to the top 200 restaurants in Britain in its 30th October 2011 edition. The list represents the view of the food loving general public instead of the usual anonymous inspectors in guides such as Michelin or…
Read MoreDesign Restaurants free iPhone App has arrived
YOUR NEW FREE PERSONAL RESTAURANT CONCIERGE – TAKES THE GUESS WORK OUT OF FINDING IMPRESSIVE DINING LOCATIONS Design Restaurants launches its eagerly awaited fine dining finder App service for iPhones The App lets you quickly and easily view all accredited inspiring and original restaurants in your area or desired location, research their suitability with pricing…
Read MoreWhat makes a successful restaurant – by 5 design houses
A recipe for successful dining Food and service are usually the ingredients focused on but here we show the other element of where design is used to aid atmosphere and create an environment that you are inspired to dine within. For an article for FX Magazine, 5 leading designers were asked what goes into making…
Read MoreMichelin Guide 2012 announcements are out
Michelin has released its 2012 guide for Great Britain and Ireland today bringing a record number of 151 accredited establishments to the directory. The Michelin star is an indication for restaurants with excellent cuisine and service standards. A limited number of the best restaurants achieve the status indicated by one, two or three stars. There…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Le Caprice – The Most Sought-After Dinner Ticket This Week
Tomorrow sees Le Caprice mark 30 years as one of the capital’s most enduring after dining hot spots. Made famous as the celebrity and a royal favourite long before being eclipsed on the celebrity circuit by the Ivy came along in the nineties, it is apt that eleven of the biggest names in music have…
Read MoreAA Restaurant and Hotel Awards 2011-2012 announced
The UK’s hospitality industry came together yesterday to recognise the best of the best at the AA Hospitality Awards 2011. With a guest list that read like a who’s who of the hospitality world, the awards ceremony saw some of the top hoteliers in the country mingle with the best pub landlords, hospitality gurus and…
Read MoreMost expensive bottle of Scotch sells for £125,000
An anonymous Chinese businessman has spent £125,000 on a bottle of 62-year-old Dalmore which had been languishing in a glass case in Singapore’s Changi airport for 6 months. It’s thought the buyer will most likely be an investor rather than a sipper with the owner of the distillery firm behind Whyte and Mackay, Mr Mallaya…
Read MoreOur Free Luxury Dining App Coming Soon
Look out for Design Restaurants exciting iPhone app ready for download mid October 2011. With this app you will never be stuck for ideas on great dining locations where ever you are in the UK. We have developed the app over several months as a simple reference and booking tool that is free for all…
Read MoreTop 50 Places to Dine in the UK – Good Food Guide 2012 is out
The eagerly awaited annual publication of ‘The Good Food Guide 2012’ has issued its pre-emptive list of the top 50 restaurants in the UK ahead of the guide’s publication date on 08th Sep 11. It reveals an emerging market of the new elite, popular Chef mentors and many Gordon Ramsay protégés scoring high such Jason…
Read MoreLunch dining is all the rage
Interesting statistics from Allegra Strategies’ Eating Out Report in the UK 2011 Report showing 2.8% growth in the dining out market as reported by Big Hospitality this week with the strongest growth in the lunch trade. According to the report: One in nine meals eaten out of home compared with one in ten…
Read MoreSee the video – Coworth Park’s John Campbell talks to Design Restaurants
John Campbell is one of the country’s finest and most celebrated chefs. After achieving a first Michelin star at Lords of the Manor in the Cotswolds and a second at The Vineyard at Stockcross, much excitement was created when he joined the Dorchester Collection’s stunning country house hotel, Coworth Park. Here he talks to our…
Read MoreTrader Vics closed after Hilton Park Lane fire drama
Trader Vics, the Polynesian styled restaurant in the basement of the Hilton Park Lane, remains closed for service after a fire broke out in the kitchens on Friday evening shortly after the hotel hosted the Silver Clef music awards ceremony. More than 1,500 guests were evacuated, including Will-i-am from the Black Eyed Peas, from the…
Read MoreAlain Ducasse cooks for Monaco’s Royal Wedding
The veteran three Michelin starred cook, Alain Ducasse was Prince Albert’s chef of choice to cater for his 500 A-list guests at his multi course gala dinner for his wedding to Miss Charlene Wittstock. An impressive 350-strong team were on hand for the July 2nd event held in the gilded splendour of the Salle Garnier…
Read More“The best young chef you have never heard of” – Jay Rayner on Tuddenham Mill
The Observers renowned food critic, Jay Rayner, places high praise indeed on Tuddenham Mill’s Paul Foster, extolling the virtues of chef’s whom you may never have heard of who can compete on the same platform as the ‘Super Chef’s’. Design Restaurants has long been a fan of Tuddenham Mill and we highly recommend a detour…
Read MoreMichael Winner’s impartiality questioned in the von Essen scandal
The media are circulating the remains of the fallen empire of tycoon Andrew Davis and his von Essen Hotels. His hotel portfolio fell into liquidation in April 2011, but as further details emerge questions are asked on how many people, including Britain’s biggest Restaurant critic Michael Winner were taken in by the hype. In an article…
Read MoreThe Sunday Times Rich List 2011 for the Restaurant and Hotel Industry
Richard Caring who owns Caprice Holdings tops the list of restaurant industry entrants in the Sunday Times List with an amassed fortune of £700m, up £100m from last year. Ranking 101 on the list, the 62 yr old Caring’s empire includes The Ivy, J Sheekey and Le Caprice also owns International Clothing Designs (Holdings), a…
Read MoreThe S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2011
Now in their 10th year, the much-anticipated S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants have been announced in a ceremony at the historic Guildhall in London this week. Noma has retained the title of S.Pellegrino Best Restaurant in the World award for the second year running. A lifetime achievement award was given to Juan Mari Arzak, the…
Read MoreUK Tea Guild make its ‘Michelin Star’ of Tea World announcements
The Tea Guild, the prestigious organisation promoting establishments meeting the high standards required by the United Kingdom Tea Council for brewing and serving tea, announces its 2011 annual award winners. Long considered the “Michelin stars” or “Oscars” of the tea world, you can be guaranteed the quality of a delicious cup of tea or afternoon…
Read MoreEditors Feature: Apsleys, a Heinz Beck Restaurant
Opened in September 2009, in London’s iconic hotel The Lanesborough, Apsleys, A Heinz Beck Restaurant is the first restaurant outside Italy created by internationally renowned chef, Heinz Beck. Holder of three Michelin stars at La Pergola in Rome, Beck soon earned the restaurant its own Michelin Star, when in February 2010 it became the fastest…
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