Barnes

• Rick Stein celebrates 50 years as a restaurateur with 1975 menu prices

  

  In today's febrile restaurant scene, most restaurateurs would be congratulating themselves for having successfully reached the end of one year. So it's properly impressive for anyone to reach the half-century mark. That's the anniversary that chef, restaurateur and TV personality Rick Stein is celebrating this year, having opened his first seafood restaurant in Padstow back in 1975.

  As part of those celebrations,

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• Test Driving The Waterman's Arms - excellent riverside dining in Barnes

  

  The Waterman's Arms is a riverside pub in Barnes with an excellent team behind it. We went for a lunch overlooking the Thames to try it out.  

• The Watermans Arms is reopening in Barnes with a dream team behind it

  

  Every once in a while we hear about an opening with a dream team that really makes us sit up and pay attention. That's definitely the case with The Watermans Arms in Barnes which is reopening next month. The waterside pub had been closed for a year, but when it flings opens its doors once more it will be with the former head chef of the Camberwell Arms running the kitchen.

  Head chef Sam Andrews is being joined by manager

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• The Great Sausage Roll-off is back for 2023 - see who's taking part

  

  It’s one of our favourite dates in the culinary year, a feverish time when scrutiny falls to the puff of pastry and mince of meat; that’s right, the Great Sausage Roll-Off finally returns after a hiatus of three years.

  If you’re new to Britain’s search for the best sausage roll in the land, it’s a competition that launched in 2013, thanks to Claire Morgan and Angus McKean,

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• Phil Howard's Elystan Street, Kitchen W8, and Church Road combine for a delivery service

  

  Phil Howard and Rebecca Mascarenhas co-own three very popular restaurants across west and south London - Elystan Street, Kitchen W8, and Church Road. Rather than open each restaurant, for the moment they're all uniting under one roof at Elystan Street and are delivering to the areas surrounding the three restaurants.

  Phil Howard is cooking and Kitchen W8's Mark Kempson is

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• The Great Sausage Roll Off announce the 2020 competitors list

  

  There are a few key food competitions in the London calendar that we always pay attention to - namely the Scotch Egg Challenge, the Croqueta Challenge and the Great Sausage Roll Off. 

  It's the last of those that we turn our attention to today. This competitive sausage roll competition, held at The Red Lion pub in Barnes, has been going since 2013. Described (by themselves) as "a bit like the X-Factor meets Masterchef," they pitch it as "an

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• Church Road in Barnes sees Sonny's taken over by an ex-Elystan Street team

  Rebecca Mascarenhas and Phil Howard's Sonny's gets a new name, look and team. And the menu at this neighbourhood Barnes spot sounds very good indeed.

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