The new vegan restaurant from Great British Menu 2024 winner Kirk Haworth, Plates in Shoreditch, has already proved a smash hit – months ahead of its July launch. When advance bookings opened this week, its computer crashed under the weight of 70,000 applicants. Kirk trained initially with his father, Nigel Haworth, former chef-patron of Northcote in […]
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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 31st March 2024 The Evening Standard Yuki Bar, Hackney Bored of London’s small-plates scene and bewildered by the “ruinous” prices of London’s Japanese-inspired restaurants, Jimi Famurewa had the highest hopes of master sommelier Yukiyasu Kaneko’s tiny Hackney spot, anticipating […]
The Emory, a new luxury hotel overlooking Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, opens next week, with a signature restaurant from New York celeb chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Billed as London’s first all-suite hotel, the nine-storey Emory was designed by the late architect Richard Rogers and is clad in his trademark glass panels. It is the fourth London […]
An ambitious restaurant devoted to risotto is to open in Fitzrovia this spring. All’Onda, meaning ‘on the wave’, is from first-time restaurateur Cordula Schulz, who has recruited chef Andrea Granzarolo and general manager Marco Montalbano (respectively from Hélène Darroze and Muse by Tom Aikens) for the project. Hailing from Lombardy, the birthplace of risotto, Andrea […]
‘Farm to fork’ is a major dining trend of recent years, but Simon Rogan of L’Enclume – rated the UK’s no 1 restaurant in the 2024 Harden’s guide – takes it a step further with a series of events this summer that could be described as ‘folk to farm’. On selected Mondays and Tuesdays from June to […]
UBA, a vibey new Pan Asian restaurant taking most of its food cues from Japan, opens at the Hart Shoreditch hotel in Great Eastern Street on Tuesday next week. Globetrotting chef Paul Greening (ex-Aqua Kyoto and Novikov) is said to be inspired by his travels to Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore. The restaurant’s interior […]
Raymond Blanc is to be honoured next month at a dinner to mark the 40th anniversary of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, cooked by prominent chefs who have passed through its kitchen. The six-course dinner, on 16 April, will be hosted by Robin Gill at Darby’s, his restaurant near the new American Embassy in Vauxhall, with […]
Jason Atherton is to close his Mayfair flagship, Pollen Street Social, this summer after 13 years. The last service will be on July 31. The restaurant was a huge hit when it opened in 2011 and propelled Jason, a former right-hand man to Gordon Ramsay, into the limelight as one of London’s foremost chef-restaurateurs. He […]
A queue of young Asian students crowds around a new brightly lit canteen just off Hammersmith Broadway. It looks pretty slick – those neon Chinese characters sure are bright! – but the usual news sites are empty of details? A quick Google of “YGF Malatang” throws up a new February 2024 opening… in the East […]
