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Ruth Hansom has been named head chef at The Princess of Shoreditch, of the Noble Inns group. Taking on the role in between lockdowns, Hansom will be her “ambitious” tasting menus in the first floor mezzanine dining room and an “elevated menu” of modern British pub classics and bar snacks in the downstairs pub. Hansom, […]
Our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 20 June 2021. ***** The Guardian “I’ve done a lot of smiling graciously, but being relentlessly supportive of restaurants couldn’t last forever… For the first time since the pandemic, I am openly narked about a not-very-good restaurant. […]
The team behind Leroy has launched a Provençal-style restaurant at the East London Liquor Co. Royale, set among the canals, inspired in part by the legendary matriarch of Domaine Tempier, Lucie ‘Lulu’ Peyraud, and her ‘cuisine de bonne femme’. Lulu – who died last year at the age of 102 – was “a true force […]
The cult deli and sandwich shop Bodega Rita’s will open a new site at 91 Cowcross Street in Clerkenwell on June 22. Bodega Rita’s, from London restaurateurs Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce, opened in King’s Cross in 2018 but closed some years later. Now, it will bring its subs back to the capital alongside new […]
The acclaimed US chef Nancy Silverton will open Pizzeria Mozza as part of Treehouse Hotel London in July. It will be the first UK restaurant from internationally recognised Nancy Silverton, who is the co-owner of Pizzeria Mozza, Osteria Mozza, SPACCA, and La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles. Pizzeria Mozza will be the latest addition to […]
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 […]
