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Julia and Nick Nairn are opening a new restaurant with a focus on outdoor dining at the Cook School in Stirlingshire, Scotland. A new format at the cookery school will also launch later this year. The aestaurant will offer a daily changing, seasonal menu overseen by Nairn, with seafood from fishmonger Willie Little in nearby […]
The team behind The Hawk’s Nest in Shepherd’s Bush has announced its next venture, The Phoenix, at Westfield nearby. This is the second site from Frazer Timmerman and Wil Fuller, who have promised a “vibrant green English garden to the vast space providing the ideal area for all-day-dining and post-shopping pick-me-ups.” The Phoenix will have […]
July 1 will see the launch of Junsei, a Yakitori specialist restaurant in Marylebone, and the first venture from Chef Aman Lakhiani. Yakitori (meaning ‘grilled bird’) “pairs fine-tuned butchery skills and an intimate understanding of grilling techniques to deliver unparalleled umami flavour that honours every part of the animal”, the team chimed. Junsei (meaning ‘pure’ in […]
A new restaurant has been announced at the Randolph hotel by Graduate Hotels in Oxford. Chris Emery, the former executive sous chef at Jason Atherton’s Michelin-starred Pollen Street Social, has been appointed executive chef, where he will oversee a modern British restaurant centred on all-day dining. The opening summer menu at The Alice will be […]
Hawksmoor has announced a new restaurant. The group’s latest venture, in Canary Wharf, will reside on a floating island, but will serve the same steak and cocktails that has cemented it as one of Britain’s leading hospitality companies. The new restaurant, an eco-friendly floating pavilion in the docks of Wood Wharf, will be enormous, set […]
A new iteration of the cult deli and global-sandwich shop Bodega Rita’s has opened in Clerkenwell. The shop, from London restaurateurs Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce, is on Cowcross Street, and is a new home for the brand’s subs, sandwiches, and new dishes and drinks. The bodega, which first opened in King’s Cross in 2018 […]
Ruth Hansom has been named head chef at The Princess of Shoreditch, of the Noble Inns group. Taking on the role in between lockdowns, Hansom will be her “ambitious” tasting menus in the first floor mezzanine dining room and an “elevated menu” of modern British pub classics and bar snacks in the downstairs pub. Hansom, […]
Our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 20 June 2021. ***** The Guardian “I’ve done a lot of smiling graciously, but being relentlessly supportive of restaurants couldn’t last forever… For the first time since the pandemic, I am openly narked about a not-very-good restaurant. […]
The team behind Leroy has launched a Provençal-style restaurant at the East London Liquor Co. Royale, set among the canals, inspired in part by the legendary matriarch of Domaine Tempier, Lucie ‘Lulu’ Peyraud, and her ‘cuisine de bonne femme’. Lulu – who died last year at the age of 102 – was “a true force […]
The cult deli and sandwich shop Bodega Rita’s will open a new site at 91 Cowcross Street in Clerkenwell on June 22. Bodega Rita’s, from London restaurateurs Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce, opened in King’s Cross in 2018 but closed some years later. Now, it will bring its subs back to the capital alongside new […]
