Like Beyoncé, restaurants move in formation, and the new openings in 2024 are no different.
When the Rouxs taught England that food was more than just meat and two veg in the Sixties with Le Gavroche, Michelin started to pay attention. When the late and great Russell Norman started serving small plates, everyone scrapped three-course menus and followed suit, not to everyone’s taste, mind you. When some of the biggest restaurant groups started to collapse only to renovate, rebrand and rise from the ashes, retired restaurateurs started plotting.
