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Voodoo Ray's finds a new owner after liquidation
A longtime staff member has taken over the Dalston pizzeria after its operator wound up this month, with a cocktail bar pop-up set to move into the basement.
Star Seafood closes sixth Hong Kong branch in two years
Star Palace's Fanling site has shut, the latest in a run of Hong Kong restaurant closures this year, as rents, labour costs and cheaper meals across the border in Shenzhen squeeze Cantonese dining halls.
Restaurant Chestnut to close in West Cork after nine seasons
Chefs Rob Krawczyk and Elaine Fleming serve their last dinner at the Michelin-starred Ballydehob restaurant on October 30, eight years after its first star.
Nonna Bakery opens second London site in Covent Garden
The Shanghai-born Italian bakery, founded by a Sicilian lawyer and a Holborn GP, follows its first London opening with a bigger bet on Drury Lane.
Bouillon A closes: Christophe Aribert shuts his Grenoble bouillon
The low-price restaurant opened on the Presqu'île in May 2022. Its management blames a struggling district and a hostile climate for restaurants; Maison Aribert in Uriage stays open.
Tom Sellers opens The Penn at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire
The 48-cover dining room is the first of five food and drink concepts on the estate to open to the public. The hotel and spa still have no reopening date.
Ente returns to Wiesbaden after a season in a monastery
The one-star kitchen of chef Michael Kammermeier leaves Kloster Eberbach for a stopgap Wiesbaden address, ahead of the Nassauer Hof's eventual reopening.
Kebapci Iskender opens its first restaurant outside Turkey
The Bursa institution that has served the original Iskender kebab since 1867 has crossed into Knightsbridge, with one dish, 50 covers and a bust of its founder at the door.
Liam Nichols opens The Northwic, his first solo restaurant
The Michelin-starred chef behind Store swaps a Georgian townhouse in Lower Goat Lane for an 18-seat counter, two tasting menus and a kitchen he finally controls alone.
Niko Romito's Reale scores a record 99 at Gambero Rosso
Gambero Rosso's new Ristoranti d'Italia guide gives the Abruzzo restaurant its highest score ever, ahead of Osteria Francescana and Piazza Duomo.
The Beefy Boys picks Cardiff for its first Welsh site
The Hereford burger group will open on Wharton Street in March 2027, its first site outside England, built on competition-winning Hereford beef cheeseburgers.
18th Floor restaurant opens above Stratford's Gantry hotel
East Coast Concepts and D3 Collective open a steak-and-seafood dining room eighteen storeys above east London, with a wine list that runs from Argentina to Champagne.
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