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Top 100 restaurants in the world revealed – as Heston Blumenthal is named Chef of the Year

The best 100 restaurants in the world have been named, according to a survey of paying customers, with British chef Heston Blumenthal sensationally securing two places on the list. The top spot went to Grant Achatz’s three-Michelin-star Alinea, in Chicago – for the third year in a row. Read more from The Independent  

Success for Tuddenham Mill's new head chef Lee Bye

Tuddenham Mill, boutique hotel and restaurant set in 12 acres of rural Suffolk countryside between Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds, has been enjoying a run of success in the past month with the majority of this success coming from their new head chef Lee Bye and his re-launched
menu. Read more from The Staff Canteen  

Meet the Burberry model and the former Le Gavroche chef behind new Hoxton restaurant The Pearl

George Craig and Terry Edwards must be the best turned out chefs in London. Both are kitted out in head-to-toe Burberry as they emerge from behind a towering pile of pans in the tiny kitchen of their first permanent restaurant, The Pearl at Hoxton’s Dolls House. Read more from London Evening Standard  

Hollywood's Hotel Pooch where your pet's every whim is catered for

Palatial suites, swimming pool, plasma TVs, spa treatments, even bedtime stories... Welcome to the Hotel Pooch, a premium lodging house for dogs that you might think could only exist in Los Angeles. Read more from The Mirror
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Editor 4th April 2014

Daily news update: our selection of food and chef news from the worlds press