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Pandemic causes record closures and churn amongst London restaurants • The price of meals out continues to rise above inflation, with the emergence of the £200+ per head restaurant • Core by Clare Smyth in West London and Da Terra in the East End identified as the best London restaurants • African- and Caribbean-based cuisine […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 15 November 2021. Now we are nearing the end of the year, who’s going to be the first critic to publish their “best meals of 2021”? ***** The Sunday Times Is fine-dining dead? Marina O’Loughlin […]
Qavali, a glamorous Indo-Persian restaurant, opened this month in Birmingham’s Brindley Place, inspired by the ecstatic Sufi singing tradition (also known as qawwali) whose adherents stretch from Turkey across Iran and Afghanistan into India and Pakistan. With a menu that takes “the best dishes from each cuisine” in this region, the 250-seat venue features a […]
Mowgli, the Indian street food chain that has found extraordinary success since its launch in Liverpool seven years ago, opens its first branch in London next week, in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia. Dubbed “Liverpool’s answer to Dishoom”, Mowgli was founded by former barrister Nisha Katona to showcase the sort of food that Indian people eat at […]
The Gantry, a new design-led hotel, opened in Stratford, east London, yesterday complete with an eye-catching restaurant and a ground-floor artisanal food market with deli and cafe. Union Social, its first-floor restaurant, has a cocktail bar and open kitchen to one side and floor-to-ceiling windows and a wraparound terrace to the other. The decor is […]
Nico Simeone, the chef behind the fast-growing bargain tasting-menu chain Six by Nico, is opening a new restaurant in his native Glasgow next week and donating all its profits to charity. Beat 6 in Whitehall Street, Dennistoun, has been set up to provide funds for Glasgow’s Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, which treated Nico’s […]
Manteca, the Italian nose-to-tail restaurant that came to prominence in the past three years with short-term residencies in Heddon Street, Mayfair, and Great Marlborough Street, Soho, opens at its first permanent site in Shoreditch next week. Chefs Chris Leach and David Carter do their own butchery and have a glass salumeria on-site where they dry-cure […]
Here’s a quick summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about over the past few weeks; apologies for our absence, the editorial team are busy working on Harden’s UK Restaurants 2022. ***** The Evening Standard Jimi Famurewa visited the new Dalston home of Supa Ya Ramen. “Though it may put […]
Highly regarded chef Tim Allen opens his first restaurant as owner this today, after repeated successes working for other people – a point he emphasises with the name of his new venture, So-lo, in Lancashire. “I’ve done it in everyone else’s restaurants in every place I’ve been, but it’s never actually been properly mine. So this […]
The Pig’s Head, billed as a “pro-planet pub” with sustainability at the top of its mission statement, opens next Wednesday, 8th November, in Clapham Old Town. Produce will come from regenerative farmers, with butchery performed on-site, while wine, spirits and beers will be sourced from sustainable production. The refurb has used up-cycled or recycled fixtures […]
