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UK pastry team wins European Pastry Championship

The UK Pastry Team last night won the European Pastry Championship in Geneva, setting themselves up for the biennial World Pastry Cup in Lyon in 2015. Read more from Caterer & Hotelkeeper  

TV chef Jo’s restaurant is set for take-off

TV cook Jo Pratt, who grew up in Frisby, is teaming up with three other top female chefs to open a contemporary restaurant at Heathrow’s Terminal 2 this summer.  Gorgeous Kitchen will be a 120-cover restaurant serving global cuisine made with British-grown produce. Read more from Melton Times  

Gloucester could get Snoozebox portable hotel for Rugby World Cup 2015 to accommodate hordes of fans

IT started as the simple brainwave of an unwitting entrepreneur fed up of spending night after night in tents at major motorsport meetings.  And now the Snoozebox – a portable hotel that can be built and dismantled in two days – could hold the key to accommodating the droves of rugby fans coming to Gloucester for next year's World Cup. Read more from Gloucester Citizen  

'What's the weirdest restaurant you've ever visited?'

Tombs: this weird restaurant in Ahmedabad, India is famous for its milk tea and the tombs between the tables. The owner, who claims to have opened the restaurant 40 years ago, says he does not know who is buried there. Read more from The Independent    
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Editor 27th January 2014

Daily news update: our selection of food and chef news from the world's press