Merseyside fine dining pioneer Paul Askew (left in picture) opens his latest venture next week, an “intimate Scouse brasserie” called Barnacle in memory of his seagoing father. He has teamed up for the project with Harry Marquart (right) of Bone and Block, along with chefs Kieran Gill and Jake Lewis. Paul, chef-patron of the city’s […]
Shutters, a new all-day restaurant and bar in Canary Wharf improbably combining Cornish produce with Mexican-inspired cocktails, opens its shutters for the first time next Wednesday, 1 December. The menu will be led with fish from the far southwest, supported by meat and vegetables also delivered from Cornwall – even the coffee served alongside pastries […]
The famous Star at Harome in North Yorkshire was “reduced to ashes” after flames swept through its thatched roof on Wednesday night. The fire broke out soon after 10pm in the fourteenth-century building and was attended by nine fire engines, but there was little firefighters could do to prevent the flames spreading through much of […]
Former Apprentice contestant April Jackson has closed down her six-year-old Brixton café and rum bar Three Little Birds, replacing it with Wood & Water, which opens this evening (25 November) offering a more sophisticated menu of “British food with Jamaican soul”. This translates as modern British dishes punctuated with Jamaican touches – jerk glaze on […]
Former Ottolenghi head chef Esra Muslu opens her first London restaurant next week, based on Istanbulite home cooking including recipes and traditional methods handed down by her mother. Zahter, named after a wild herb in the thyme family that grows in southern Turkey, is conceived as Esra’s “love letter” to her native country. It occupies […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 21 November 2021. ***** The Evening Standard Catalyst Cafe in Holborn has “no hype-stoking publicist or obvious Hellenic signifiers”, but is “serving some of the best Greek food in London” thanks to “the considerable gifts […]
The most ambitious new museum restaurant in Britain opens next week at the World of Wedgwood, a visitor attraction and ceramics collection in the Staffordshire village of Barlaston. Lunar is directed by Niall Keating (above right), executive chef at Dorset’s Whatley Manor and a former Michelin Young European Chef of the Year and Great British […]
A prominent Chelsea pub formerly owned by father-and-son football legends Frank Lampard and Frank Lampard senior was relaunched last week as the first hospitality venture from furniture designer Timothy Oulton. The Chelsea Pig, formerly the Pig’s Ear, on the corner of Old Church Street and Poulton Street, is believed to be the oldest pub in […]
Global celebrity chef Daniel Humm is quitting his restaurant at Claridge’s in Mayfair at the end of the year after the hotel blocked his desired move to a plant-based menu. The Swiss chef, whose Eleven Madison Park headquarters in New York topped the World’s Best 50 Restaurants list in 2017, has undergone a Damascene conversion […]
Chef Josh Katz (above), his brother Paul and business partner Matt Bianchi are to open their third restaurant on Thursday next week. Carmel, in Queen’s Park, will continue along the Eastern Mediterranean trail they have blazed successfully at Berber & Q in Haggerston and Shawarma Bar in Exmouth Market. The new restaurant features an open […]
