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Two pedestrian-friendly plazas will transform Oxford Circus under plans unveiled by Westminster City Council and the Crown Estate on Wednesday. The proposals will include “significant improvements” to public spaces, with additional planting and seating areas designed to maximise dwell time and encourage visitors, as well as improved access to the Tube. There are thoughts the […]
UKHospitality has “unreservedly welcomed” the Government announcement of new rules to ring-fence Covid-19 commercial rent arrears and the extension of measures to protect commercial tenants from evictions to March next year. The extensions to moratoria on commercial evictions and to debt recovery actions, and the introduction of an arbitration process to guide settlements between landlords […]
The third generation sushi chef Taiji Maruyama opened Maru in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, on June 15. Maru is the second restaurant from the team who opened Taka on Marylebone High Street in autumn 2020, and Maruyama will present diners with a “unique, immersive experience, placing a focus on British ingredients prepared through a classical Japanese […]
Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 13 June 2021. ***** The Observer “The Caribbean cookery here deserves to become the pride of Northamptonshire.” Standing in for Jay Rayner this was Rev. Richard Coles, who introduced us to June Plum, a Jamaican […]
A South London chef has launched Dusty’s Deli, a New York-inspired food concept based at Mercato Metropoltano in Elephant & Castle. The Jewish-style bagel shop focuses on the classics and includes delicate low salt cured beef brisket in bread sourced from London’s famous Beigel Bake on Brick Lane, and a traditional Reuben sandwich with salt […]
The de Visscher family will open a branch of The Seafood Bar in Soho, their first international outpost. The 190-cover restaurant will be in a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse at 77 Dean Street in Soho and follows four sites in The Netherlands which are based in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The menu will include ‘fruits de […]
This September, the multi-award winning chef Niklas Ekstedt will open his first restaurant outside of Stockholm, launching Ekstedt at The Yard, part of Great Scotland Yard Hotel in Westminster. Set within the five star hotel, which was once the site of the Metropolitan police, its new flagship restaurant will bring Ekstedt’s signature style of wood […]
The Greyhound pub and restaurant in Beaconsfield Old Town has appointed Chris Hurter as its new pastry chef. It is a statement on intent from the pub. Hurter joins The Greyhound from the Michelin-starred Bybrook restaurant, part of the Manor House Hotel in Castle Combe, where he worked as head pastry chef. Prior to that, Hurter was head […]
BOXPARK has confirmed its first site outside of London with the launch of sibling concept BoxHall in Bristol scheduled for summer 2022. The group has just agreed a lease for the historic harbourside location at Welsh Back Bristol’s O&M’s sheds, which will house its first BoxHall site. Opening in June 2022, BoxHall Bristol will be a modern food hall structure with […]
Gordon Ramsay will open his biggest Street Burger restaurant yet, a 175-cover site at the O2. The site, launching in July, will be set across two floors and will offer a deal comprising a burger, fries, and unlimited soft drinks for £15. It is the latest opening in a major expansion drive for Gordon Ramsay […]
