Oro At Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice Announces New Head Chef Vania Ghedini With Creative Culinary Inspiration By Massimo Bottura

28th March 2024 - Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, is proud to announce the arrival of Chef Vania Ghedini who will return to Italy to join the Michelin-starred Oro as Head Chef after a five-year hiatus with the Alajmo brothers at Sesamo in Marrakesh. She will be joined by internationally acclaimed visionary Chef Massimo Bottura as Culinary Creative Director.

 Vania will relaunch Oro for the season 2024, introducing exciting new menus that celebrate all the local produce that the area surrounding the hotel and wider region has to offer. The two will work together on the development of the menu, mixing creativity and international influences with the traditions of the cuisine from the Venetian lagoon.

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The Cocochine, Bruton Place, Mayfair opens March 25th 2024

Mayfair’s Hamiltons Gallery owner Tim Jefferies and Chef Larry Jayasekara open The Cocochine, restoring, renovating and reimagining the historic property in Bruton Place. Located in a former mews house at 27 Bruton Place off London’s Berkeley Square, Tim and Larry have approached the property as custodians, preserving and enhancing the 4-story building to house their new restaurant, The Cocochine.

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INTRODUCING FYSH at EDITION by CHEF JOSH NILAND

The Singapore EDITION introduces its signature restaurant FYSH at EDITION and the Lobby Bar by the multi-award-winning chef, restaurateur and author Josh Niland, his first venues outside Sydney, Australia.

More than just a fish restaurant, FYSH is chef Niland’s reimagining of the steakhouse, and his menu showcases a thoughtful balance of innovative fish, seafood, and meat dishes, much of it cooked over the charcoal Josper grill. Whilst the menu is fish-focused, land-based protein and vegetables are treated with equal reverence and respect.

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Conosh Presents: Locale Firenze x Mugaritz

Florence, Thursday 7th March: Chef Simone Caponnetto, executive chef of Locale Firenze, is set to welcome Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz and the team of Mugaritz ** for one exclusive evening, melding the finest Italian produce with vanguard techniques, creativity, art, gastronomy and science from two of Europe’s most experiential chefs. 

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The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant in Scotland receives coveted Second Michelin Star

5 February 2024 - The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant in Crieff has been awarded a second Michelin star in the 2024 edition of the prestigious Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland during the award ceremony that took place at the Midland Hotel in Manchester. 

Scottish Chef Mark Donald arrived at The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant in 2021, and the first Michelin star was awarded just seven months later. It was the first restaurant inside a distillery to achieve Michelin recognition. Other awards and recognition followed for Mark and his team, and now, with two Michelin stars, they join a small and celebrated selection of establishments in the UK and Ireland. 

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Josh Niland Opens with Edition Hotel in Singapore

SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2023 - EDITION Hotels has partnered with one of the leading sustainable chefs in the world, acclaimed Australian restaurateur and multi-award-winning chef and author Josh Niland, to helm the signature restaurant at The Singapore EDITION. The ethically sourced seafood concept will be Niland’s first restaurant outside of Australia, an elegant home for what a sustainable, modern-age, seafood-focused steakhouse is today, with the edition of sensational meat and vegetable dishes.

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October welcomes the opening of The Cocochine, Bruton Place, Mayfair

October welcomes the opening of The Cocochine, Bruton Place, Mayfair

Mayfair’s Hamiltons Gallery owner Tim Jefferies and Chef Larry Jayasekara open The Cocochine, restoring, renovating and reimagining the historic property in Bruton Place. 

Located in a former mews house at 27 Bruton Place off London’s Berkeley Square, Tim and Larry have approached the property as custodians, preserving and enhancing the 4-story building to house their new restaurant, The Cocochine.  

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August Update

Hello, 

The inaugural The World’s 50 Best Hotel Awards will be held in London on September 19th, and we would like to take this opportunity to introduce - or reintroduce - our UK-based clients to anyone visiting the city, the UK and to update those closer to home. 

We look forward to hearing from you, discussing your forthcoming plans and collaborating on any features you are developing.

Thanks, and speak soon, 

Team Lotus 

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GALLADA AND TOPSIDE BAR OPENS IN ISTANBUL

GALLADA AND TOPSIDE BAR OPENS IN ISTANBUL


The Peninsula Istanbul and Chef Fatih Tutak are delighted to announce the 7 July 2023 opening of GALLADA and Topside Bar, Istanbul’s new Turk-Asian dining and drinking experience. Located near the city’s landmark Galata Tower on the stunning rooftop of The Peninsula Istanbul, GALLADA and Topside Bar will lead guests on a contemporary gastronomic journey based on the historic tastes, flavours and traditions of the Silk Road’s Eurasian trade routes and their connection to this ancient city. 

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Andrew Wong welcomes Albert Adrià to London for dim sum collaboration

This summer and for the first time, Chef Andrew Wong welcomes Chef Albert Adrià to his restaurant for an exciting, creative collaboration exploring the culture, history and art of Chinese dim sum.

Spread over two exclusive evenings, the dinners will take place on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th of July at two Michelin starred A.Wong in London’s Victoria.

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