The Craft Guild of Chefs must be so chuffed with themselves after a fantastic 20th Anniversary Awards Dinner last night. They put on a show to rival The Cateys – it was like the who’s who of the cheffing world, with over 825 guests in the glittering Great Room at The Grosvenor House and HRH [...]
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We gathered over a hundred industry leaders at 100VE this week to hear from Unilever Food Solutions, Rosie Boycott, WRAP, The Sustainable Restaurant Association and food activist Tom Hunt on why more needs to be done to tackle the issues of avoidable food waste. As research from WRAP revealed that almost one quarter of consumers [...]
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In 2011, Mayfair was taken off the Monopoly board and replaced by Kensington Palace Gardens by the game’s makers, Hasbro. As you may have seen in our recent blogs, Flemings Hotel has launched a campaign to restore Mayfair to its rightful place. The campaign reached new heights this week as a London MP has backed [...]
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It’s been a busy month here at William Murray attending industry events across London. We let our CEO Karen and Anita loose at the preview event of Jason Atherton’s new restaurant, the Social Eating House. It was a great event with a delicious five course menu, including curried halibut and for dessert salted caramel ice-cream. [...]
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Our CEO Karen, along with Mark Linehan and Ed Franklin from the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) and Tracey Rogers from Unilever, went to visit The Newman Street Tavern in London. This restaurant has been open for four months under chef Peter Weedon, of The Boundary in Shoreditch, Coq d’Argent and Quaglino’s fame. Peter’s main inspiration [...]
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The word on the street is that Mayfair is missing. Yes that’s right, in 2011 Mayfair was taken off the Monopoly board and replaced by usurper Kensington Palace Gardens in a move made by the game’s makers, Hasbro. But, Flemings Hotel wants to right this wrong and reinstate Mayfair to its rightful place next to [...]
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Karen and Donna went to the Royal Automobile Club in London for the Academy of Culinary Arts’ fundraising dinner to help raise money for the Chefs’ Adopt a School Trust – a UK initiative that teaches children about food provenance. They were served some delicious canapés by a group of children from different London primary [...]
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We attended the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) Conference at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwickshire last week. The eminent speakers were interesting, insightful and entertaining. Edward Perry presented a very endearing and refreshing portrayal of his often fraught and rocky journey as a co-founder of Cook – now a highly successful family business with a [...]
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We love our coffee in the office and last week two of the team jumped at the chance to learn basic barista skills on United Coffee’s Licence to Work in Coffee Service training. The Academy of Food and Wine Service backed course, the first accredited barista training in the UK, covered all the essential skills [...]
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We went to the Sustainable Restaurant Awards, held at the OXO Tower in London on 4 February, and were brushing shoulders with the crème de la crème of the hospitality world. Sat next to Antonio Carluccio, shaking hands with Raymond Blanc and mingling with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, it really was a chef-tastic affair! A beachside cafe that [...]
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