All articles by Stefan Chomka – Page 3
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OpinionFive stars of 2015
The market is awash with casual-dining brands, large and small, old and new. Here’s a pick of the five you really need to keep an eye on this year
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NewsLobster formats on a roll as competition rises
Lobster will become much more commonplace, and be available at a lower price in 2015 as the premium seafood becomes increasingly popular
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NewsShake Shack plans UK expansion
Shake Shack is opening its second UK site next year as it finally begins its long-awaited rollout over here
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Le Chateaubriand team to open Le Chabanais in London
The team behind Paris restaurant Le Chateaubriand, currently ranked 27th in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, is to open a new restaurant in London
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NewsGoodman to open seafood restaurant
Goodman Restaurant Group will open Rex & Mariano, a new seafood restaurant located on the former Vodka Revolution site in Soho in late November
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OpinionBodean’s breaks out
After a five-year hiatus and a shrinking estate, barbecue brand Bodean’s is back on the expansion trail. Founder Andre Blais discusses why he won’t be getting his fingers burnt this time round. Stefan Chomka reports
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Analysis & InsightThe king of convenience
When Julian Metcalfe launched Pret a Manger in 1986 he changed the way people lunched and built one of the UK’s most successful fast-casual food chains in the process. Now the legendary restaurateur hopes to emulate that success with the national – and international – rollout of Itsu
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Analysis & InsightNorthern exposure
A few years ago, if you’d asked a successful London restaurateur about their plans to move up north you would have probably received a response bordering on surprise and indignation. Today things couldn’t be more different
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Analysis & InsightNew world order
Forget the recent influx of US restaurant brands planting their flags on UK soil – the Brits are leading a global invasion all of their own
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Analysis & InsightCaution: Cafe-bakeries are hot
Coffee shop and cafe brands are encroaching into restaurant and pub territory in a bid to steal market share. Are they the new face of all-day dining?
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Analysis & Insight
The bacaro boys
Polpo co-founders Russell Norman and Richard Beatty have left a trail of bare-bricked copycats and no-reservation restaurants in their wake. Now recently publicans, is there anything this driven duo won’t try their hand at?
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Analysis & InsightFine dining isn’t dead, it’s just had a facelift
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum, bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.’ In case you hadn’t heard, fine-dining restaurants have died. They had been on life support for a while now, apparently, but then suddenly the switch was flipped. That’s at least the story that sections of the press have been peddling in recent weeks
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OpinionThe odd couple
Hawksmoor founders Will Beckett and Huw Gott’s unconventional approach has resulted in one of the industry’s big success stories – but things weren’t always so rosy
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OpinionI predict a…
Stefan Chomka looks ahead to what 2014 has in store, with 10 predictions, some “dead-certs” like Alan Yau’s opening of ‘Asian gastropub’ Duck & Rice rekindling publicans’ desires to return to the heady days of the mid 1990s where a Thai restaurant was the pub accessory du jour; and some more avant-garde, including the possible opening of bread and butter concept called B&B
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Analysis & InsightUndervalued and unloved
With Wagamama gearing up to open its first site in the US, and only its fourth in total, since it made its debut in the States in 2007, Stefan Chomka asks why haven’t more UK chains broken America?
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Analysis & InsightThe world’s their lobster
Goodman Restaurants broke the mould with the launch of Burger & Lobster in 2011, but there’s plenty more unconventional concepts still in the pipeline, as directors George Bukhov and David Strauss reveal
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NewsGoodman plans B&L roll out
Goodman Restaurants plans to roll out its Burger & Lobster concept across the UK, as well as internationally, in the next couple of years, with a focus on both major and minor cities
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OpinionGiraffe finds every little helps
Tesco’s purchase of Giraffe earlier this year moved both the family-friendly restaurant and the grocery giant into new territory. Has it created a blueprint for a new approach for the mid-market sector? Russel and Juliette Joffe talk about life under their new owners.
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OpinionEastern edge
A new breed of fun, imaginative player is moving Japanese and east Asian food away from its highly stylised or deeply traditional roots in the UK. The day of the swashbuckling samurai chef is nigh
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Analysis & InsightI have a dream. Or is it just deja-vu?
Why do so many American restaurants choose to open up over here? And why are many UK restaurateurs so preoccupied with the New York dining scene? These are questions I’m often asked by people who mistake me for someone who knows more about Anglo-American dining relations than the next man
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