The chic restaurant, which opened to much fanfare in November 2022, cost almost S$1 million to set up. The bulk of the cost was spent on renovations and outfitting the detached house – around S$800,000. “If we had spent less, we would probably still be operating. It’s the start-up investment that killed us,” he told … Read more
Modern Mexican restaurant Tamayo will start a two-month renovation in January to its longtime Larimer Square location. The two-story restaurant, 1400 Larimer St., will close its doors on New Year’s Day and reopen on March 4. “When I first opened Tamayo on Larimer Square in 2001, I wanted to introduce modern Mexican cuisine to Denver,” … Read more
During the 2010s, I worked as the dining editor of a luxury lifestyle publication that held an annual best restaurants awards night, and my colleagues and I had a non-negotiable post-event ritual. After every awards ceremony – often held in one of Hong Kong’s fanciest new restaurants or shiniest hotel ballrooms – and once all … Read more
Dave’s Hot Chicken, a popular American fast-food chain, opened in the UK this weekend and requires customers to sign a waiver to try its famously spicy ‘Reaper’ burger. The burger, made from Carolina Reaper peppers, averages 1,800,000 Scoville heat units, making it up to 650 times hotter than Tabasco sauce and 300 times hotter than … Read more
Inside The Ivy Liverpool Brasserie in Liverpool city centre (Image: undefined) Entering Liverpool’s new Ivy restaurant from a crisp winter evening is a delight. For a decade, I’ve strolled past the former bank on Castle Street, now home to The Ivy. It was thrilling and gratifying to finally discover what lay behind those grand doors, … Read more
The death of a Russian defector: Who failed Maxim Kuzminov? Ukraine’s most celebrated deserter was gunned down in a Spanish beach town. By CLAUDIA CHIAPPA, EVA HARTOG, and VERONIKA MELKOZEROVAin Villajoyosa, Spain Illustration by Brian Stauffer for POLITICO The first person to spot the body was an elderly Spanish man who mistook it for a … Read more
Christian Le Squer is something of a legend in fine-dining circles. For 22 years, the chef at Le Cinq, at Paris’ Four Seasons George V Hotel, has maintained the restaurant’s vaunted three-Michelin-star status. During that time, lesser chefs have turned themselves into global brands, but the unassuming Le Squer has mostly stayed kitchen-bound. That is … Read more
This summer, Hideaki Sato closed his fine-dining restaurant Ta Vie in Hong Kong, which received its third Michelin star in 2023, for several weeks, reopening it only at the beginning of September. While done primarily for renovations and redecoration following nine years of almost non-stop operation, another reason for the pause was for the chef … Read more
A waitress claims she was fired from GLO restaurant on 2nd Avenue in Bloemfontein for asking for her tips. BLOEMFONTEIN WAITRESS: ‘SIX MONTHS WITHOUT A SALARY’ The Bloemfontein waitress @reekymakae8 reveals on TikTok that she worked at GLO restaurant for six months without a salary. “This club opened in May this year [2024]. When the … Read more
Todd Graves’ idea to open a restaurant in Louisiana with his partner Craig Silvey got them the lowest grade in Silvey’s undergraduate business class because they planned to sell only chicken fingers. Their business concept was also rejected by banks when they applied for loans. However, the rejections didn’t deter Graves from bringing his fast-food … Read more
