Michelin-starred chefs Chris and Jeff Galvin have been named as new executive chefs of Glyndebourne’s fine dining Middle & Over Wallop restaurant, where they will hold tenancy for the next three years.
The Galvin brothers will initially be joining Glyndebourne for Festival 2021, where they will be recreating dishes from their Galvin La Chapelle restaurant at the fine dining venue.
They have designed three seasonally changing menus, featuring some of their signature dishes. This will include starters of cured Loch Duart salmon with fennel salad, avocado and pink grapefruit; mains of fillet and slow cooked rib of beef, truffle mash and rainbow chard; crab lasagne with beurre nantais; and desserts including hot Valrhona chocolate fondant with raspberry coulis; and apple tarte tatin with crème normande, which has been a signature dish at Galvin restaurants for more than 15 years.
Former Asia de Cuba executive chef Michael Hanbury is opening his debut restaurant in Waterloo in June.
Called Antillean, the Caribbean restaurant will be located in an 18
th century coachbuilding works, which for the past 20 years has been home to Baltic restaurant.
The food will reflect the global influences on Jamaican cuisine with Antillean serving Saturday brunch, Sunday roasts and Caribbean tapas dishes alongside dishes such as flying fish and rolled oxtail curry.
The cricket fan chef is also giving his rum cocktail list a subtle cricket theme, with one called Whispering Death in honour of the nickname given to West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding.
Steve Groves appointed executive chef at Glyndebourne Former Roux at Parliament Square head chef Steve Groves is to oversee the kitchens at East Sussex opera house Glyndebourne as executive chef.
The role sees the highly respected chef take responsibility for all F&B at the venue, including the Middle & Over Wallop fine-dining restaurant, Mildmay restaurant and Nether Wallop restaurant.
The catering at Glyndebourne - which is located just outside Lewes and is set to reopen this May - is run by RA Venues, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, which also operated Roux at Parliament Square before it
A popular destination for politicians and business people, Roux at Parliament Square was
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One of the London restaurant world’s most formative figures, Albert Roux, died aged 85 on 4 January, the Caterer reports. With the opening of Le Gavroche in Mayfair in 1967, Roux alongside his late brother Michel and son Michel Roux Jr laid the foundations for a tradition of French fine dining that holds sway over the capital to this day.
In a short statement announcing his death, Roux Jr said:
He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.
Le Gavroche was the first London restaurant to win one, two, and then three Michelin stars the latter in 1982. It has held two since 1993. The family opened further restaurants in the city, including Roux at the Landau, which closed temporarily in 2020, and Roux at Parliament Square, which closed permanently in 2020, but Le Gavroche remained the clearest, most important, and by far the most famous, expression of the Rouxs’ approach to cooking. Steering away