A new chain of steak and lobster restaurants has opened its £1 million flagship… in Southend-on-Sea. Why sunny Southend? Bourgee – sold as a luxury yet affordable dining experience – is headed up by chef and restaurateur Mark Baumann, of leading local restaurant Baumann’s Brasserie. Coggeshall. Southend’s regeneration was apparently also a major attraction. The wincemakingly-described ‘Steak-Lobster-Luxe Lounge’, opened […]
You’ve read our picks for the best Vietnamese restaurants in London, now here’s your chance to try one first hand. Harden’s has teamed up with Pho to offer you the chance to win dinner for two and a bottle of wine at their new restaurant in St Paul’s One New Change Centre. Enjoy moreish Vietnamese […]
This October Caravan will open a temporary 130-cover restaurant, with 40-seater bar and private outdoor terrace, at the Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park. Sounds a little less makeshift than your average pop-up! The restaurant will serve many of the much-loved dishes from Caravan’s Exmouth Market (pictured) and King’s Cross sites, but with a new ‘Caravan To […]
A new River Cottage Canteen will open, in Winchester city centre, on 24 September. The restaurant, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s fourth outpost, will occupy a Grade II listed building, Abbey Mill, just off the Broadway. In addition to the dining room, the site will also have a separate bar area offering a selection of local cider, beer, cocktails, coffees, cakes and […]
D&D London – the former Conran Restaurants group – seem to be doing the rounds in sprucing up its restaurant empire. First Avenue, then Quaglino’s and now Almeida. The Islington restaurant will re-open on 30 September with a brand new ‘pared back’ look, seasonal menu and 80-bin wine wall. Almeida’s ‘sunken’ dining room will remain, alongside its […]
Borough Market fixture Brindisa will celebrate a decade of serving tapas this year. To mark the occasion the restaurant group, which now has four sites, is to offer customers a week of Spanish feasting at the prices of 10 years ago. From 13-19 October, Brindisa’s top 10 tapas dishes – padron peppers, chorizo, garlic chilli prawns, tortillas, […]
A new Hawaiian restaurant in Dalston has seemingly done the impossible. It has managed to open its doors without a single pineapple burger or pizza on the menu. The Pond, brought to us by the chaps behind Beavertown Brewery and Duke’s Brew & Que, is housed within an old warehouse. The menu, which – attention […]
Vietnamese restaurant group Pho is growing apace with the addition of another City site – the One New Change shopping centre near St Paul’s, also home to Jamie’s Barbecoa and Gordo’s Bread Street Kitchen. Opening on the former site of a Caffe Concerto, it will be the company’s twelfth outlet and the largest to date, with 110-covers and […]
Morgans Hotel Group – named after the New York boutique hotel established by the legendary Ian (Studio 54) Schrager 30 years ago – has launched its first Mondrian hotel outside the US. Where? London, of course. The Mondrian London arrived at Sea Containers House on the South Bank in August, with its restaurant opening on 30 September. The […]
