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Stefan Chomka

Journalist — the UK restaurant industry: operators, economics, expansion and retrenchment, and the people running groups.

editor of Restaurant magazine (William Reed) since 2014, deputy editor from 2008, writing about food and drink for over twenty years. Restaurant runs the National Restaurant Awards.

No reviews or picks captured yet.

Nothing here yet where they gave a verdict of their own — anything below is coverage they wrote, not an endorsement.

Pieces they wrote about these places.

Reporting, openings and roundups. Kept for the trail, and not read as their endorsement — a writer relaying someone else's award is not recommending it.

• Restaurant (William Reed), 'Alex Hunter: We're going big on seaweed' ↗they interviewed · 2026-05-26
  • The Sea, The Sea (Hackney)Haggerston

    “The new Chelsea site is currently Hunter's only project having closed the Hackney site of The Sea, The Sea, which was a tasting menu restaurant overseen by chef Leandro Carreira before he departed, and the sale of The Sea, The Sea Wholesale to Reach Food Group in early 2025.”

• BigHospitality ↗opening coverage · 2020-07-02
  • Swift SohoSoho

    “The original Swift, located on Soho's Old Compton Street and set across two floors, launched in November 2016 by husband and wife team Mia Johansson and Bobby Hiddleston in partnership with another husband and wife team, Roisin Stimpson and Edmund Weil, owners of Nightjar and Oriole.”