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for the inconvenience.” Trade union Unite Hospitality said it was supporting workers after the restaurant closed “with immediate effect” in the last week of February. Bryan Simpson, lead organiser


of Unite Hospitality, said: “The way in which workers at Hard Rock Café in Glasgow have been treated is morally reprehensible and almost certainly unlawful. “We will be doing everything in


our power to support our members at Hard Rock to ensure they are paid everything they are entitled to.”


CROOKED HOUSE OWNERS ORDERED TO REBUILD WONKY PUB


after Giles Coren gave 16-cover Jöro a positive review in The Times last week. French and Sherwood-French


wrote on Facebook: “As mentioned in the review in The Times by Giles Coren, alongside our already announced bar, terrace and barbecue kitchen – we will also be moving Jöro to be a part of our project at Oughtibridge Mill later this year.”


ROBERTA HALL-MCCARRON TO OPEN THIRD EDINBURGH RESTAURANT Chef Roberta Hall-McCarron is to open a new café, bar and bottle shop in Edinburgh in May. Ardfern will be the chef’s third


venture in the city, joining the Little Chartroom and Eleanore, both of which are recommended in the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland. The new site is billed as a


The owners of the Crooked House pub in Himley have been ordered to rebuild the site “to what it was prior to the fire” by South Staffordshire Council. The pub, once known as


“Britain’s wonkiest inn”, was destroyed in a blaze and subsequently demolished in August last year, just two weeks after it was sold by Marston’s brewery. It provoked outrage in the local


Matt Abé and Russell Bateman have been appointed chairs of judges for the National Chef of the Year (NCOTY) and Young National Chef of the Year (YNCOTY) competitions. Abé, chef patron of the three- Michelin-starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London’s Chelsea, will lead the judges for the NCOTY, while Bateman, former NCOTY winner and head chef at the Falcon hotel in Northampton, will chair the judging for YNCOTY. David Mulcahy, competition


director and food innovation and sustainability director at Sodexo UK and Ireland, has been collaborating with Abé to devise a brief for this year’s entrants. Mulcahy said: “The Craft Guild of


Chefs prides itself on the rigorous judging process we have in the NCOTY competition, and this is


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always strengthened by us selecting some of the most influential chefs in the UK to chair it.”


STAFF LEFT UNCERTAIN AFTER APPARENT CLOSURE OF HARD ROCK CAFÉ GLASGOW


community and led to a police investigation. Five men and one woman arrested in connection with the fire, which is being treated as arson, remain on conditional bail. South Staffordshire Council has


served an enforcement notice on the owners of the Crooked House for the unlawful demolition of the building, which breached planning controls.


The Hard Rock Café in Glasgow appears to have closed suddenly, leaving staff uncertain about the future of their jobs. A statement on the music- themed restaurant’s website read: “Hard Rock Café Glasgow will not be operating today. We apologise


LUKE FRENCH AND STACEY SHERWOOD-FRENCH TO RELOCATE JÖRO Luke French and Stacey Sherwood- French are to relocate their fine-dining restaurant Jöro to the Oughtibridge Mill development on the outskirts of Sheffield this year. It comes after the pair revealed plans to open a grocery store and restaurant called Shöp in the former paper mill in 2022. Oughtibridge Mill is located


roughly five miles from Sheffield city centre, where Jöro is based. The pair made the announcement


relaxed all-day restaurant that will serve brunch, bar snacks and heartier dinners alongside cocktails, draught beer and wine from the on-site bottle shop. A mixture of counter and table seating will be available, allowing guests to sit at the bar or book a table in advance.


LUCKNAM PARK TO LAUNCH NEW RESTAURANT AND GUEST COTTAGES


The five-red-AA-star Lucknam Park hotel in Wiltshire is to open a new restaurant and two guest cottages in spring. The brasserie will be relaunched as the Walled Garden restaurant, offering a selection of seasonal produce from the hotel’s surrounding estate and kitchen garden. Head chef Alex Greene will serve sharing plates such as free-range pork chop with crab apple verjus, spring greens and roasted turnip during the day and à la carte dishes such as flat iron steak with béarnaise sauce and skinny fries in the evenings. Lucknam Park will also


add two more cottages to its accommodation offering. The Apple Tree and Pear Tree cottages will feature two bedrooms, log-burning fireplaces and private gardens.


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