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Portuguese restaurant and wine bar Bar Douro will open a second location in the City later this year. The first branch opened in London Bridge’s Flat Iron Square three years ago and since then has impressed diners. Reporters have praised Bar Douro’s “authentic Portuguese small plates” and “fab list of Portuguese wines”, and also marvelled […]
Reubens, the West End’s only fully kosher restaurant, has closed after 46 years. A statement issued on Tuesday said the Baker Street restaurant would be closing due to a family bereavement. “With a heavy heart, unexpectedly we have had to close due to a family bereavement,” said the message. “We are proud of the 46 […]
Mortimer House, a private members’ club in Fitzrovia, is to open its doors for an “intimate” guest chef series. Launching on May 2, the events will debut with Elizabeth Haigh, who has been undertaking residencies as Kaizen House since departing Pidgin in 2016, where she won plaudits abound and a Michelin star. Haigh will pitch […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 5 May 2019. Bross Bagels, Edinburgh Grace Dent for The Guardian has nothing but love for the “Canadian-Jewish bagel bakery owner Larah Bross” and the Montreal-style bagels served at the three Edinburgh branches of Bross Bagels: “a whirlwind of perfectly judged brashness and thoughtful, […]
After more than three decades, The Three Chimneys, the Isle of Skye’s most famous culinary outpost and one of Scotland’s culinary crown jewels, is to change hands. Owners Shirley and Eddie Spear have run their restaurant with rooms for some 34 years, but have confirmed to The Scotsman newspaper that they have now handed over […]
Just months after launching Gloria in Shoreditch, the Big Mamma group will open Circolo, another large, frenetic and imposing Italian restaurant, this time in Fitzrovia. The “vibrant and sunny” 280-cover restaurant will feature more than 20,000 bottles of spirits along the walls, thousands of festoon lights, an outdoor terrace, and an “over the top” menu. […]
The owners of Primeaur, Westerns Laundry, and Jolene, David Gingell and Jeremie Cometto, are opening a restaurant in Cornwall. Fitzroy will launch in the cute harbour town of Fowey in June and will, apparently, make use of the finest Cornish seafood, with “a cooking style in keeping with their [Gingell and Cometto] ethos, led by […]
PizzaExpress has reported an earnings decline of 15.3 per cent in 2018. The company saw group turnover up 1.6 per cent to £543 million overall, but the fall in sales will worry bosses. The slip was, in part, at least, down to the challenges in establishing itself in international markets, the foremost being China, where […]
Gary Usher broke a crowdfunding record to open Kala, his latest restaurant in Manchester. After seeing £100,000 flood in in less than 24 hours, Usher said: “I am honestly struggling to get my head around last night”. Is it all worth it? His effort and thousands of people’s hard-earned cash? An early impression of Kala […]
Corbin & King’s latest restaurant, Soutine, will launch on or after April 29. The industry is watching closely. As we reported earlier this year, the St John’s Wood restaurant (which occupies a site snapped up from Carluccio’s) will be in the vein of “Colbert meets Fischer’s”, and – in keeping with C&K’s general philosophy – […]
