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. 

Corbin & King

New scores for 2020 to be published in May

Corbin and King’s Bellanger to close

Restaurant mavericks Chris Corbin and Jeremy King are to close their Alsace-inspired venue Bellanger in Islington, marking the first closure for the pair since 2009.

WLC Eats: Bellanger

Lauren Eads heads to Corbin & King’s Alsatian enterprise in Islington for gooey pomme aligote, platefuls of Coq au Riesling and lashings of rosé.