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Tom Aikens’ 25-seater fine dining destination, Muse, reopened to guests yesterday. The restaurant – housed in a converted Georgian townhouse in old Belgravia – opened in January 2020. “The ethos remains the same, but the menus are refreshed, changing in tandem with the seasons,” said an announcement. Aikens offers “experiential-led dining” (7 or 10-course tasting […]
Chef Tom Aikens has opened his latest restaurant, Muse, in Chelsea. Already his ten-course tasting menu has been called everything from terribly “pretentious twaddle” to “pure genius“. It has, it’s safe to say, caused a stir. It remains to be seen whether the controversial chef will win over the public. But it’s where people will […]
Tom Aikens is opening a new 25-cover restaurant in Belgravia this December. The chef, the youngest Brit to have ever won two Michelin stars, will launch Muse with a menu inspired by the chef’s “fondest food stories and memories”. Muse will be split over two floors and will sit inside the renovated mews house previously […]
Tom Aikens has relaunched the flagship site for his Tom’s Kitchen group of casual brasseries. The restaurant on Chelsea’s Cale Street has undergone an extensive refurbishment, as well as the introduction of a new menu offering seasonal British small plates. Tom’s Kitchen Chelsea first opened in 2006 serving comfort food classics, now 12 years on […]
Husband and wife chef duo Jake and Cassie White will swap London’s dining scene for the wilds of Cumbria with the launch of Pentonbridge Inn, a pub with rooms, located 17 miles north of Carlisle. The pair are hot-footing it from Marcus Wareing’s Marcus at The Berkeley in London – incidentally now run by another husband and […]
Pembrokeshire-born chef Tom Simmons, who appeared on MasterChef – The Professionals, has opened his first restaurant in London at Bermondsey’s One Tower Bridge development. Known as ‘cwtch’ in the planning stages (which, as anyone who has seen Gavin & Stacey will know, is Welsh for hug) Restaurant Tom Simmons focuses on both British and French cuisine, […]
Pembrokeshire-born chef Tom Simmons is opening his first restaurant in London this spring, with a focus on the best Welsh ingredients. Simmons, 28, appeared on MasterChef – The Professionals in 2011 and has worked with Tom Aikens and Mark Sargeant. His new self-named venue, with partner Lois Thomas running the front of house, is in the […]
⦿ September 27 will see the opening of Phil Howard’s new venture, Elystan Street, in the backstreets of Chelsea. The site will be remembered by some as Tom Aikens – another chef who had a Michelin 2-star pedigree and struck out on his own in this quiet backwater, a short stroll from The Conran Shop […]
Just can’t wait for the opening of Phil Howard’s new restaurant, Elystan Street in Chelsea, at the end of this month? Well, you can have a sneak pre-taste (and at a significantly lower price) next Saturday, September 17, at Barnes Food Fair. Howard founded Mayfair thoroughbred The Square and ran its “brilliantly focused” (Harden’s Survey) kitchen for […]
The London outposts of Tom Aikens’s casual bistro chain, Tom’s Kitchen, haven’t had the easiest ride from our reporters who feel the offering is “all a bit ordinary”. But the brand appears to be going from strength-to-strength with a an international deli launching in Dubai in October, followed by a site in Birmingham’s Mailbox shopping centre […]
