Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 30 January 2022. ***** The Observer “The sort of cookery that makes you pause, mid-conversation, and study the plate.” Jay Rayner was in Sheffield, debating whether it’s better to eat out at lunch or dinner. […]
The Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge is replacing pimped-up New York-style burgers with a hyper-trendy oriental import with today’s opening of The Aubrey in the space formerly occupied by Bar Boulud. Named after the decadent fin de siècle artist Aubrey Beardsley, the Aubrey pitches itself as an “eccentric Japanese izakaya experience”, offering upmarket food and cocktails […]
Gordon Ramsay is set to open his third outlet in London’s Savoy hotel next month when Restaurant 1890 – his tribute to the great French chef Georges Auguste Escoffier, who joined The Savoy in that year – launches on 23 February alongside the Savoy Grill, which Ramsay has run since 2003, and last year’s River Restaurant […]
Corbin & King, owners of nine London restaurants including the Wolseley, the Delaunay and Brasserie Zédel, were forced into administration this week when its majority shareholder, Thai-based hospitality investment fund Minor International, claimed that it was “unable to meet its financial obligations”. Jeremy King (right in picture) condemned the move as a “power play” for […]
The venerable Gallic establishment Richoux will be relaunched at 173 Piccadilly next month under two chefs with immaculate CVs who promise to offer a taste of “luxury at affordable prices”. Richoux was opened by two French exiles in 1909 and became a prominent destination at various salubrious London addresses, before falling into administration last year. […]
Gino D’Acampo is planning to launch a string of Italian restaurants under his Luciano brand this year, with venues in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Sheffield all in the pipeline. The celebrity chef, pictured with Cheshire reality TV star Christine McGuiness at the opening this week of Luciano – named after his first-born son – in Alderley […]
Here’s our regular summary of the places national and local restaurant critics have been visiting in the week ending 23 January 2022. ***** The Sunday Times Marina O’Loughlin thinks found her restaurant of the year on a visit to Pine, in an old cow barn deep in Northumberland near Hadrians Wall. It’s part of Vallum […]
Veteran Leeds restaurateur Joe McDermott has opened a paella and tapas specialist, Bomba, at Saw Mill Yard in Holbeck Urban Village, on the city’s South Bank. Named after a variety of rice from eastern Spain, Bomba started off as a paella delivery service during lockdown, operating from Kirkgate Market. Joe originally made his mark on […]
Flat Iron Square, the street-food venue that looks like an overspill from nearby Borough Market, has moved home, reopening this week on the site of its stablemate St Felix Place, 200 yards along Southwark Street. Founded in 2016 by Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons, Flat Iron Square was forced to move by redevelopment work […]
The rise of the meat-free burger continues apace, with two hitherto red-blooded burger operations opening specialist vegan outlets in London since the New Year. Honest Burgers, now a sizeable chain with about 40 branches across England, has unveiled V Honest in Garrick Street, Covent Garden, to showcase the popular vegan options it has already developed, […]
