Simon Rogan
This Is How You Build a Pub Entirely from Scratch
Four pubs close every day in Britain but in Manchester, people are taking matters into their own hands—literally—and building a boozer from scratch. Everything from the bar tiles to the dart boards is being handmade by volunteers.
Inside the Hotel Restaurant That Could Win Back Manchester’s Michelin Star
London has 80 Michelin-starred restaurants, Birmingham five, but Manchester? Zero. Chef Simon Rogan aims to change all that by winning hotel restaurant The French back the star it was stripped of in 2007 with a new kind of fine dining.
How I Started One of London's First Pop-Up Restaurants
I never liked the word “pop-up” or used it, we just thought everything in the food world was so prissy. We were all old ravers and wanted to bring what we had in the clubs into the restaurant environment.
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