Amuse-bouches: The latest restaurant news bites

In restaurant news this week: Dining out in the UK is predicted to fall by over a third in September, London wine bar Top Cuvée gets ready to open a shop, and a MasterChef: The Professionals finalist prepares to open a West African restaurant in October. 

Cannabis

New scores for 2020 to be published in May

America gets its first cannabis restaurant

America’s first cannabis restaurant will open in West Hollywood next month and will feature on-hand “budtenders” offering food and pot pairings.

Maine investigates restaurant that gives lobsters pre-boil marijuana

Following news last week about a restaurant giving cannabis to crustaceans, officials in the state of Maine are now investigating the procedure with the restaurant reportedly halting production of its ‘smoked lobster’.