When one of Britain’s best loved family holiday brands decided it was time to re-invent it’s food offer with an exciting new family restaurant concept that could work as easily on the high street as it would within one of their resorts, they turned to Mystery for inspiration. Mystery helped Butlin’s hatch ‘Firehouse’, a seriously […]
A new tinned seafood restaurant in London’s Soho is opening this week, with designs by AL_A which take ‘the tin as the hero’. The temporary space, named Tincan, will be operating for six months. AL_A created all interior and graphic designs, inspired by its work designing a new Lisbon-based cultural centre, where it found a […]
The Japanese are known for their quirky products, and a restaurant in Tokyo, Zenyaren, has come up with a bizarre dish—meat skewers frozen in blocks of gelatin collagen. Diners have to lick the frozen collagen to get at the meat—this dish is served as the Japanese believe that eating collagen will reverse the effects of […]
That’s Vapore is opening its first site in London at Marylebone’s Baker Street this week. The expression itself tells the story, ‘Vapore’ after all means steam in Italian and this is exactly how the delicious menu is prepared. Brand design agency Caulder Moore has created new branding and packaging, with a positioning of ‘steamy goodness’ […]
Gordon Ramsay will be taking his London restaurants to Asia with the announcement that Bread Street Kitchen will be opening in central Hong Kong in September followed by further restaurants in the area and across the region later in the year and in 2015. Operating as a consultancy and licensing arrangement, the Gordon Ramsay Group […]
Benihana celebrated its 50th anniversary. Starting as a small, four-table restaurant on New York’s West 56th Street in 1964, Benihana quickly paved the way for mainstream Japanese food in America. Today, Benihana Inc., the nation’s leading operator of Japanese theme and sushi restaurants, operates 78 restaurants in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Fifty […]
Steak ‘n Shake is inviting America to a birthday party for the record books on Saturday, June 7, when it will celebrate its 80th birthday by attempting the Guinness World Records title for the “Largest Birthday Sing-Along.” Steak ‘n Shake expects more than 20,000 customers to sing “Happy Birthday” simultaneously across its 529 U.S. locations. As they […]
Brand design agency Caulder Moore have created a new brand identity and environment for popular Italian deli-caffe La Bottega, to be rolled out across six London sites, launching from mid May 2014. This licensed, upmarket deli-caffe chain was initially set up by an Italian family and keeps the sourcing of products, coffee and menu very […]
Some chefs would find leaving the bright lights of London and a high flying career a tricky proposition. 35 year old Christopher Lawrie the Head Chef of the new £1.5M Clubhouse site on Sheffield’s Ecclesall Road had no such qualms. Christopher has moved his family and his career back to Sheffield to head the kitchens […]
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site, today announced the highest-rated restaurants and top U.S. states for barbecue, according to TripAdvisor’s community of millions of travelers. From sweet and saucy to simple and smoky, these spots serve up low-and-slow cooked meats that are sure to satisfy any travelers’ tastes. “Nothing says American summer like barbecue, and […]