Members’club Soho House is to open a new branch on the Brighton seafront this month. ‘Little Beach House Brighton’ will be the first venue on the British coast for the group founded in Greek Street, Soho, in 1995 which now has 28 branches around the world from North America to Hong Kong. Founder and chief […]
Soho House has secured £77.7m worth of equity investment to expand its portfolio and ramp up its digital growth. Raycliff Capital has led the funding charge, with an additional, significant stake arriving from Simon Property Group. The new round of investment means the business is now valued at £1.6bn. Soho House is expected to focus […]
A new neighbourhood haunt is to open in the heart of the Portobello Market, taking over the very characterful premises which for years have traded as amiable 1980s dive Portobello Gold: an ex-Hell’s Angel’s hang-out, whose past customers have included then-serving-president, Bill Clinton. Gold will be a modern European neighbourhood bar and restaurant in the […]
The Soho House group is to continue its creep into the mid-market with the launch of a new Cecconi’s restaurant in Shoreditch, East London. The company already has two Italian restaurants under the brand, and this latest opening marks an intent to take Cecconi’s out of its natural heartland and into the East End’s new restaurant […]
The team behind two popular West Country pubs have added a third to their portfolio. Dan Brod, Charlie Luxton, and Matt Greenlees, who have found past investment from Soho House chief executive Nick Jones, among others, have bought a third pub. The trio, who run the Beckford Arms near Tisbury, Wiltshire, and the Talbot Inn in […]
The Ned, a new hotel and membership club boasting no fewer than nine separate restaurants, has opened in a disused bank building plum in the middle of the City of London. Named after its architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, the grand building was opened in 1924 as the City headquarters of the Midland Bank. The £200m hotel conversion is […]
Manchester continues to vie for the position of the UK’s second city when it comes to dining out – and at the rate it is going, the birthplace of the industrial revolution may edge out Birmingham and Edinburgh to take that title. In the last year the Northern capital has seen the launch of the […]
New grill house, West Thirty Six, will open in Golborne Road later this month – the same west London street that already houses John Doe, the charcoal grill spot glowingly reviewed by the Observer’s Jay Rayner on Sunday (4 Jan). The three storey 100-cover restaurant with bar and cocktail lounge, on the former site of the […]
Soho House will launch a new restaurant at London’s latest ‘Midtown’ hotel, The Hoxton Holborn, this week – Brooklyn-style grill Hubbard & Bell. The 95-cover restaurant, cafeÌ and bar takes its name from Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, as the Grade II building was formerly BT headquarters. Head chef Tim Fuller, previously […]
Soho House group launch a combined Chicken Shop and Dirty Burger in the East End today (21 May). There has been very little fanfare surrounding this venture, which opened in Mile End Road, Whitechapel. The restaurants’ first joint outpost, it was supposed to open in late April, but Soho House decided to postpone the launch […]
