A new restaurant/deli is being launched on the Clerkenwell site previously occupied by Anna Hansen’s influential The Modern Pantry. Compton Restaurant opened this week for walk-ins as part of Clerkenwell Design Week, and opens fully on Thursday 16 June. Described as an “easy dining bistro”, the restaurant will serve a short modern menu with plenty […]
Chef Hylton Espey (pictured) and his wife Petronella will open their first restaurant, Culture, on Custom House Quay in Falmouth next month, with a hyper-seasonal menu focused on local ingredients sourced from people he knows. Hylton, a South African-born surfer, has made himself at home in Cornwall in his six years working at Rastella restaurant […]
Opera North is to open a destination restaurant at its new headquarters in Leeds city centre this summer. Kino will accommodate up to 100 covers on three floors, with an evolving line-up of local pop-ups and guest chef residencies. The restaurant is in the Howard Opera Centre in New Briggate and Harrison Street, which opened […]
Burnley FC may have been relegated from football’s Premier League this month, but the Lancashire mill town will soon have a premier league restaurant if a new “fine dining” venue lives up to its promise. Burnley Council has given a green light to plans to convert a disused Georgian pub, The Waterloo, into a 30-cover […]
Korean-American celebrity chef Akira Back is to make his European debut with a restaurant at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair hotel, which is scheduled to open in Hanover Square next winter. The chef made his name at the Yellowtail Japanese Restaurant & Lounge in Las Vegas, where his signature dish is tuna pizza, and also […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 22 May 2022. ***** The Observer “Every menu description conjures up an image of how happy you will be eating it. Not a single one lets you down.” Jay Rayner identified the “tribe” at Les […]
The Paris-based Experimental Group, owner of the Henrietta Hotel in Covent Garden, has acquired Cowley Manor spa-hotel in the Cotswolds – the group’s first UK property outside London. Local chef Dominic Hargreaves has been appointed with a brief to introduce an innovative menu for the restaurant and open-air cooking during the summer, while Experimental – which […]
A new motoring-themed restaurant opens in North Yorkshire today, with classic cars parked between the tables. The Arnage, named after a famous corner at the Le Mans racetrack, is part of The Motorist showroom and events space at Sherburn in Elmet, near Selby. The Motorist was founded by Simon Spinks, a fifth-generation bed and mattress […]
Highly rated chef Alex Dilling is set to open a first restaurant under his own name in London’s historic Café Royal this summer. The first-floor restaurant just off Piccadilly Circus is intimate, with just 34 covers, but grand in ambition. Making his announcement on Instagram, Alex said: “It is with great excitement and emotion I […]
Dishoom, the retro Bombay-themed all-day cafe group, has announced plans for an enormous new branch in the Wood Wharf development at Canary Wharf, expected to open by the end of the year. The 8,800 sq ft venue will seat 355 diners over two floors and a terrace, giving it an even bigger capacity than the […]
