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. 

Rioja

New scores for 2020 to be published in May

Rioja’s 10×10 tasting returns to London

Wines from Rioja is celebrating the diversity of the Rioja category with a showcase of 100 of the region’s top wines in October.

X Factor winner Ben Haenow is a Beaujolais drinker

X Factor winner Ben Haenow is a Beaujolais drinker – something the 33 year-old British singer revealed to WLC this week at the launch of a brand that ‘breaks from wine convention’.