Vinoteca, the St John Street wine bar and kitchen is to open a second site in a former launderette in Marylebone, London.
The opening was revealed in a licensing application to City of Westminster dated 10th April 2010 but only recently granted by the council. Vinoteca will be opening a "high quality restaurant featuring seasonal British and European Cuisine" in mid October 2010 at 15 Seymour Place, close to London's Marble Arch. There will be space for 60 covers on the ground floor and 30 downstairs in the private room which will open in 2011.
Known for their extensive by-the-glass wine list and wine shop in Farringdon near Smithfield Market, the two-storey premises occupies the ground and basement levels and proposes a 30-cover private function room in the basement along with the same mix as at the St John Street restaurant. The ground level includes a wine shop, bar area and semi-open plan kitchen alongside restaurant space.
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Tuesday 10 August 2010
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Spanish Rioja and Tapas for MSN Food and Drink
"Spain's Rioja wine has long been associated with British wine-lovers and today we consume a third of all the wine they produce. If you're not familiar with the region, its wine and accompanying tapas, now's a great time to get acquainted."
I am now the food and drink editor for the MSN Food and Drink website, part of Microsoft, one of the world's biggest software companies and website producers. The new website, in association with Sainsbury's supermarket, has features, recipes, tips and practical advice for a wide variety of food and drink areas.
This Spanish Rioja wine and tapas feature is my first feature for the MSN Food channel.
To read the article in full, go to the Spanish Rioja and tapas feature on the MSN Food and Drink channel.
Tuesday 29 June 2010
'A Family of Friends - Restaurant renaissance in the Near East' for Fire and Knives
"If you'd invented an entirely new way of dining out, revived the very notion of British cuisine, inadvertently coined the phrase 'gastropub' and received accolades by the truck-load, then in our increasingly food-obsessed nation, you would probably be pretty famous, wouldn't you?
David Eyre and Mike Belben, the founders of The Eagle in Clerkenwell, achieved all this -- and more -- but they're hardly household names. They're certainly no Heston, Gordon, Marco or Delia. But then they never engaged a public relations agency, never fronted a supermarket campaign and never had their own television show. They simply had a great idea and worked tirelessly in the kitchen to convince diners that theirs was the way forward."
The feature looking at the emergence of the gastropub in Clerkenwell during the 1990s looks at the central role of The Eagle, of its founders David Eyre and Mike Belben, and interviews Tom Norrington Davies, formerly head chef at The Eagle and now of 32 Great Queen Street.
It appears in print in Fire and Knives, No. 3, a quarterly paperback book produced by Tim Hayward, a key contributor to The Guardian's online food content and also includes features from Tom Parker-Bowles, Tilly Culme-Seymour of The Spectator Scoff and Felicity Cloake of The Guardian Online, Metro and MSN Food. Go to the Fire and Knives food quarterly website to learn more about it.
To read more about Craig Butcher, freelance food, drink and travel journalist, visit the Craig Butcher website
Catering the World Cup, for Channel 4 Food
"Find entertaining a challenge? Pity those feeding hundreds of thousands of hungry football fans at the World Cup in South Africa. Craig Butcher talks to Peter Csanadi of MATCH Hospitality.
Hosting this summer’s barbecue with family or friends will be a proverbial walk in the park compared with entertaining fans at the World Cup. Peter Csanadi works for the company catering every stadium at every game, dealing with a world’s-worth of religious considerations and dietary requirements."
To read the full article "Catering the World Cup" to accompany the football World Cup 2010, by freelance journalist Craig Butcher for the Channel 4 Food website, the UK's biggest food website, click here.
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World Cup features on Weightwatchers.co.uk
I've put together a four-part series of features for Weightwatchers.co.uk, the website of the UK's best-known slimming organisation, to accompany the football World Cup this year. The series groups cuisines by style and offers healthy eating recipes from some of the best known countries taking part, including England, Brazil, Italy and Germany.
The series started on 11th June, the first day of the football World Cup and Part 3 was released on Friday 25th June. To read the full article online at Weightwatchers.co.uk, click here.
The fourth and final part of the World Cup recipes feature for Weightwatchers.co.uk will go live on Friday 2nd July.
Click here to read more about Craig Butcher, freelance food, drink and travel journalist.
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