It follows the parent Walnut Club restaurant in Hathersage and the Walnut Club champagne bar which opened on Ecclesall Road before Christmas.

This will be known as the Walnut Club at Crystal.

But Richard has lost his head chef Nick Wilson, who has returned to his family in Cambridge.

His place has been taken by Lee Vintin, previously head chef for Jamie Bosworth at his short-lived Sheffield United restaurant.

He has lately been running a cake-making company.

Crystal opened in 2005 with Christian Szurko as head chef in the upstairs restaurant, one of Sheffield's most attractive dining rooms, with a sloping floor.

But the combination of disco and upmarket eaterie didn't gell.

Richard says: "It's pretty soon after the champagne bar opening but you've got to take the opportunity when it comes."



LOCAL boy made good Barry Vera, the lad from Stocksbridge who became a big chef in Australia with his own TV series, has published a new cookbook.

His show - seen in 60 countries around the world and on Discovery here in Britain - is called Feast.

The book is Feast Bazaar, which takes in recipes from his series in India, Morocco and Syria.

Barry, who runs a restaurant back home in Melbourne, trained at what was then Granville College but never worked in Sheffield.

He says of the book: "As a chef, I have often wondered about the food I cook and how each recipe I use became a recipe."

Barry adds: "I delved deeply into the culinary history of each country and explored the rituals that surround the preparation, cooking and eating of regional foods as I went."

He spent much of his young life in the working men's clubs of Sheffield run by his parents, including the Peggy Tub.

Feast Bazaar is published by Murdoch Books at £17.99.



IF customers do a double-take when they pop in for a coffee at Liz Austin's Cello coffee shop in Greenhill, Sheffield, it's because they think they have seen her before.

They have. "I'm often in the background of the Woolpack or a shop in Emmerdale," says Liz, who runs the business on Bocking Lane with husband Ian.

It's Cello as in the Italian drink Limoncello and Liz has a musical background. She used to be a singer and saxophonist in a dance band some years back.

Cello is noted for its latte art - they draw pictures in the froth of your coffee.