Chef William Drabble this week unveils a new restaurant inspired by his 19th-century predecessor at the St James’s Hotel & Club near Green Park. Francatelli replaces Seven Park Place, the highly rated restaurant he has run since 2009 – but which lost its Michelin star last year. Charles Elmé Francatelli, London-born of Italian extraction, trained under […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 25 February 2024 ***** The Evening Standard Tashas, Battersea Jimi Famurewa confessed that it took a trip to Sydney in January to convince him of the attractions of the Antipodean brunch. “And now I have fallen pretty hard for Tashas — […]
Bar du Champagne, a new bar and bistro that promises fizz at accessible prices backed up by a menu of nibbles to share and comfort food, has opened in Covent Garden. The new venue is from Liana Kazaryan, who ran the former Avobar on the same Henrietta Street premises, and is designed with a retro […]
The self-styled ‘underground guerrilla pop-up’ chef known as Whyte Rushen is to open his first permanent restaurant in Hackney this month. With a CV that includes Brat, Kerridge’s and Scully of St James’s to his name, Whyte fuses classical and pop elements in creations such as oysters topped with Monster Munch. He also takes in […]
Make this Christmas more magical by celebrating at The Milestone Hotel & Residences in Kensington. Whether it’s a family celebration or a corporate party, The Milestone Hotel has something to suit your festive occasion. Private Dining menus are available together with Cocktail Reception packages. Each of the private dining venues has a story to tell […]
Gastronomic stars from Greece, Italy and Portugal will line up alongside a roster of Britain’s top chefs for the 2024 edition of Obsession, the annual festival of chefs hosted by Northcote fine-dining hotel near Blackburn in Lancashire. Michel Roux Jr will cook with his daughter Emily at the grand finale on Sunday 4 February in […]
Changes are afoot in the culinary offerings available on Piccadilly, with historic brasserie Richoux moving out and contemporary wellness café Volonté moving in this week. Century-old Richoux was bought out of administration two years ago and relaunched by chefs Jamie Butler and Lewis Spencer, who now plan to move it to Soho next year. They […]
The team behind London restaurant Fallow is launching an upmarket low-waste ethical chicken shop called Fowl next week in St James’s Market. Occupying the former Cubitt House pub the Beau Brummell, Fowl opens with a guest collaboration from the great and semi-retired French chef Pierre Koffmann, who has created a Chicken Leg Corn Dog with Aleppo Pepper (pictured) […]
Chef Merlin Labron-Johnson has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds so his high-achieving but tiny Somerset restaurant, Osip, can move into new, much larger premises. The new Osip will be a “country auberge” offering accommodation as well as meals, set in a restored historical building in the countryside a few miles from the current […]
Chef-entrepreneur Gary Usher, who has used record-breaking Kickstarter campaigns to fund the expansion of his northwestern group Elite Bistros, has turned to crowdsourcing in a new direction – this time to find a new name for his Liverpool restaurant, Wreckfish. In a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), Gary has appealed for suggestions to […]