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Retro loving diners at Lussmanns St Albans restaurant have helped save lives in Hertfordshire – simply by ordering dishes with Read more.
For years, I’ve joked that all a restaurateur has to do is ensure the food is hot and the beer’s Read more.
How many restaurants grow the herbs for their own gin? Yeah, we can’t think of many or any either. It’s Read more.
Daisy Cooper MP and Charlotte Jolly, Beauty Director of Hello! magazine, were two of the panellists at a popular breakfast Read more.
We only won! We are delighted and proud to announce that Lussmanns has won the Marie Claire Sustainability Award for Read more.
We like to see our restaurants as an integral part of the social and economic fabric of their communities. This Read more.
Lussmanns Sustainable Fish & Grill has been awarded the prestigious Menu of the Year for the second consecutive year at Read more.
With 80% of all UK hospitality staff now furloughed, there are empty pubs and boarded-up restaurants and cafes up and Read more.
This week saw the finale of the fund-raising efforts of Lussmanns Sustainable Fish & Grill for their Charity of the Read more.
Andrei Lussmann is delighted to announce that Lussmanns have been awarded the prestigious Menu of the Year at the UK’s Read more.
‘environmental degradation is pushing our oceans to the brink of collapse’ To coincide with World Ocean’s Day (8th June), we Read more.
– The only restaurant group in the UK – Andrei Lussmann, founder and MD of Lussmanns Fish & Grill Restaurants Read more.
Lussmanns & Rubies in the Rubble Dining with a Conscience Event The first in our 2019 series of Supper Clubs Read more.
Following the second annual Dream Team Dinner, which took place earlier this year, Andrei Lussmann can now confirm that £6440 Read more.
In 2018, we were runners-up for ‘Best Cheap Eats‘ representing readers’ favourite location for a meal under £15 at the Read more.
Not only has Lussmanns been handpicked to be part of the game-changing new guidebook conceived to identify and celebrate the Read more.
We are absolutely delighted that St Albans was shortlisted as a UK Top 12 semi-finalist in the 2018 Seafood Restaurant Read more.
Should wine trips be a tiresome journey where fun is replaced by apathy and bonding lost to exertion? I hope Read more.
Lussmanns Sustainable Fish & Grill lived up to its name on Monday 1st October, winning the Source Fish Responsibly award Read more.
Lussmanns has made Marina O’Loughlin and Giles Coren’s list of the 100 best places to eat in the UK as Read more.
LUSSMANNS – DREAM TEAM CHARITY DINNER RETURNS On Wednesday 3rd October, I will join forces with locally celebrated chefs, Nick Read more.
In true celebration of British produce, Lussmanns Fish & Grill, St Albans is delighted to announce a series of Summer Read more.
Oakland’s College opened the doors of its college restaurant on 10 February 2018 for a batch of young hopefuls to Read more.
Earlier this year, we received an unexpected invitation from Raymond Blanc, OBE, President of The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). Would Read more.
Lussmanns is one of three finalists in the ‘Serve More Veg & Better Meat’ category of the Food Made Good Read more.
Proud to be recommended by The Good Food Guide since 2010, the 2018 edition describes us as a brilliant local Read more.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new restaurant in the old bank on the High Street in Tring Read more.
We were honoured to be highly commended runners-up for the Sustainable Business Award at the 31st, 32nd, 34th and 36th annual Cateys, Read more.
My feeling is that eating out with children in a restaurant should be a continuation of what happens at the Read more.
Listing us since 2009, the guide describes Lussmanns as ‘A bright, modern restaurant just steps from the cathedral, Lussmanns serves Read more.
Huge thanks to everyone who so generously supported this special event which raised £10,483 for Youth Talk in one night. Read more.
Running an independent restaurant is a job and a half, and that’s just the hours. Throw in ever declining margins, Read more.
Lussmanns St Albans has featured in the Harden’s UK Restaurant Guide and online during 2014, 2016 and 2017. See our Read more.
The Waitrose Good Food Guide to gourmet youngsters recommends Lussmanns as a value-driven option for family dining, praising the ‘confidentally Read more.
Lussmanns Fish & Grill, the independent restaurant group based in Hertfordshire, has donated over £1,500 to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust Read more.
We are fortunate to enjoy the art of Jennifer Lussmann, which displays in our restaurants. Jennifer is a contemporary British Read more.
We have opened a new restaurant and diners’ bar at 25b-26 Sun Street, Hitchin. Situated just off Market Place in the Read more.
This prestigious award from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) was presented to Andrei Lussmann in recognition of his commitment to Read more.
As a restaurateur, what stands out most in the ongoing debate about tipping is the complexity of the issue and Read more.
Luke Johnson has invested in Lussmanns Fish & Grill, becoming a major shareholder and joining the Board of Directors of the Read more.
Lussmanns has been named ‘The People’s Favourite’ at the annual Food Made Good Awards 2016. We were also runners-up for Read more.
In 2016, we won Best Foodservice Operator at The National Fish & Chip Awards, organised by Seafish. To become the Read more.
The food scene in St Albans has matured greatly during the last decade. As it continues to grow, the city Read more.
Once again, I was fortunate enough to travel over to Provence with a view to buying some excellent rosé from Read more.
Winners of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) Awards 2015 were announced at Oval Space. I am delighted for the second Read more.
In 2014 and 2015, we were named Sustainable Small Restaurant Group of the Year at the national Sustainable Restaurant Association Read more.
You would be forgiven for thinking of English sparkling as a badly fashioned picture of fawn pleated gentlemen dithering with Read more.
Lussmanns in Harpenden was our fourth opening (the first being North Kensington, now sold) and my tenth restaurant opening at Read more.
Beer, an old fashioned and classless preserve of Britain in its multitude of colours is once again stirring the cockles Read more.
In November 2014, we became the first small restaurant group outside London to serve MSC certified sustainable fish and shellfish. Watch Read more.
In 2011 and 2012 we won the Independent Restaurant category of the RSPCA Good Business Awards, recognising the consideration we Read more.
Mr Raymond Blanc OBE opens Brasserie Blanc in St Albans and then retires to Lussmanns for dinner. Admittedly there were Read more.
A morning like most, but an afternoon like no other… Clearly we aren’t disciples of Michelin, or ambassadors of the Read more.
Eating fish sustainably is the only way, today and every day, and we ignore this at our peril. Mansion House Read more.
I spend part of my year scurrying around the country reviewing both ingredients and suppliers alike. This has always been Read more.
“…everything a modern local restaurant should be…” concludes Giles Coren in a very positive review of Lussmanns with an overall Read more.
In 2011, Andrei featured in The Caterer’s feature ‘Can restaurants afford not to be sustainable?’. His top tips were: ~ Read more.
View and download our previous years’ media coverage from 2018 to 2011 here. 2018 Nov – Observer Food Monthly Awards Read more.
View and download our previous years’ news releases from 2015 to 2010 here. 2015 Dec – The National Fish & Read more.

























































