Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 24 July 2022. ***** The Guardian “Life is odd right now, but it throws up real surprises.” Grace Dent visited Brighton’s old-but-new Shelter Hall, housed in a “rather beautiful seafront building, built in 1888”, which […]
A Californian-style taco outfit based in southeast London opens its first permanent venue today, after four years of pop-ups, residencies and market stalls. Taca Tacos, from founder Thorne Addyman, is in Arch 12 at Deptford Market Yard. Thorne launched the venture in 2018 following a research trip to the US West Coast and Mexico, initially […]
A tiny, 10-seater Japanese restaurant where husband and wife chefs serve a no-choice “omakase” menu opens in Mayfair tomorrow. Roji is the first venture from the couple, Tomoko Hasegawa and Tamas Naszai, who met while working at another Japanese restaurant, Tokemiete. Roji means alley, appropriately for a restaurant that is tucked away in a courtyard […]
Frieze art fair co-founder Matthew Slotover will open an art-themed boutique hotel and restaurant next month a few minutes’ walk from the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. Fort Road Hotel launches on Monday 1 August after a four-year rebuild, which included adding an additional top floor. There are 14 guest bedrooms, and the ground floor […]
A museum and library dedicated to the late chef Michel Roux is to be opened next to The Waterside Inn, the classic French restaurant he founded 50 years ago in the village of Bray, on the River Thames west of London. Michel and his older brother Albert became dominant figures in British gastronomy with the […]
The Hart Brothers will open a fifth branch of their flagship Barrafina tapas bar next Saturday in Borough Yards, the extension of the Borough Market food hub developed under the redbrick Victorian railway arches. The new Barrafina, which glories in the address of “2 Dirty Lane”, constitutes the final link in the Harts’ Borough Yards […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 17 July 2022. ***** The Guardian “You can’t just “move” a restaurant. The magic is in a plethora of small things other than food: the acoustics, the convergence of tables, traffic noises, the location of […]
Richmond will see two new riverside restaurants opening in the coming months, as central London-based hospitality brands target the city’s wealthier suburbs for expansion. Aussie brunch specialist Daisy Green is the first out of the traps, launching Peggy Jean (pictured) in a restored barge on 27 July, followed by Mayfair celebrity-magnet fish specialist Scott’s in […]
A new restaurant focused on family recipes from Goa in southwest India opened this week on the south side of the currently pedestrian-only Hammersmith Bridge in Barnes. Postbox is the first restaurant from Leo Noronha, who leads the front-of-house team, with his cousin Lorenzo heading up the three-man kitchen. The menu features unusual takes on […]
Jeremy Clarkson has opened a restaurant at his Diddly Squat farm in the Cotswolds, having located a “cunning little loophole” to circumvent the local council’s refusal to grant him planning permission. Almost all the restaurant’s 40 seats are outdoors, the toilets are a long walk (or tractor/quad-bike ride) away, there are no vegetarian options and […]
