A female-led wine bar and bistro which celebrates wines made by women producers opens this weekend in the heritage Menier Chocolate Factory building opposite Borough Market. Launched by Parisienne wine expert Carole Bryon, Lady of the Grapes focuses on organic, biodynamic and natural wines on a 400-strong list. It follows the smaller wine bar of […]
A modern Moroccan venture called Tagine & Grill has this week taken up long-term residency at The Sun and 13 Cantons, the Soho pub well-known as a launch-pad for interesting new restaurants. Founder Yassir Chair grew up in Morocco and moved to London at the age of 20, initially to study. He is also the […]
Former Le Manoir and Clove Club sommelier Bert Blaize (left in photo) has opened his first restaurant – Chandlery, overlooking the harbour at Well-next-the-Sea in North Norfolk. Meanwhile, sisters Siobhan and Caitriona Peyton have taken over a 300-year-old pub just a mile away, the Three Horseshoes at Warham. Bert landed by the harbour in Wells two […]
New York’s Caffè Dante has become a permanent fixture in Claridge’s as Dante Mayfair, following a successful residency last summer which was extended to the end of the year. It serves an all-day Italian-American menu including grills, seafood and cocktails in what was latterly the more formal Claridge’s Restaurant, operated most famously in recent times […]
A chef has been forced to close his debut venture, an ambitious sandwich shop on the edge of Manchester, after a single day’s trading after being overwhelmed by the sheer number of guests. Kieran O’Reilly launched Ruger Fjord in Lees near Oldham on Saturday, pitching it variously as a “focaccia lounge” and a “really good butty […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 7th June 2026 The Guardian Bar Shrimp, Manchester Grace Dent nabbed “one of the best seats in Manchester right now, if not the entire north” at a new cocktails-and-seafood bar from the trio behind Higher Ground next door. And […]
Spencer Metzger (left in picture) opens his follow-up to the acclaimed Row on 5 next week – Chez Rose, a French bistro taking over the former premises of Little Social in Pollen Street, Mayfair. Like Row on 5, the new venue is part of Jason Atherton’s Social Restaurant Group. Jason (right in picture) shuttered Little Social […]
A bakery that morphs into a bistro and wine bar as day moves to night has opened in St John’s Wood High Street. No Forty Nine is from head chef Ella Williams (right – ex-Mountain and Crispin) and owner Jake Finn (left), who founded Cinder, a minute’s walk along the high street. Breakfast is served from […]
A rooftop food and entertainment venue featuring the largest retractable roof in UK hospitality and 12 independent kitchens opens in Newcastle city centre next week, on the upper storey of the former Debenham’s building in Eldon Square. Freight Island Newcastle – from the team behind Freight Island in Manchester – was due to launch last autumn but […]
Gary Maclean, Scotland’s National Chef, is to open a new restaurant called Kin in Edinburgh next week that celebrates the nation’s produce and culinary traditions. Seastoing 45 guests, Kin is part of The Roseate Edinburgh, a three-year-old boutique hotel converted from two Victorian townhouses on the capital’s West Side. Glasgow-born Gary made his name by […]
