Internet chef Thomas Straker has opened a deli and casual restaurant called Acre, a few doors from his flagship Straker’s on Golborne Road in Notting Hill. Straker’s is temporarily closed following a fire in its ventilation system, but is popping up for three weeks at nearby Brasseria on Westbourne Grove. Thomas is pitching Acre as […]
Belfast-based chef Lottie Noren has opened her first restaurant as founder, a European small-plates specialist called Beau in the city’s Cathedral Quarter, following her success as head chef at Edo. Lottie represented Northern Ireland in TV’s Great British Menu last year. Originally from the Lake District, she was inspired to become a chef by a […]
Bellamy’s in Bruton Place, Mayfair, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Harden’s sat down with its founder, Gavin Rankin, to find out what makes it tick Tucked away in a mews off Berkeley Square, Bellamy’s is famous for its ‘club with no sub’ atmosphere. It’s a calm and welcoming place, “civilised” is the word its founder […]
Paco Tapas in Bristol and the Angel in Dartmouth are among the prominent restaurants to announce their closure this week, with Tom Kerridge’s Butcher’s Tap & Grill in Chelsea and the two Chick’n’Sours sites in London also shutting up shop. The loss of Paco Tapas means Peter Sanchez-Iglesias (pictured) and his family no longer have […]
Graeme Cheevers of Glasgow’s highly rated Unalome this week launched his second restaurant – Loma, at Cameron House resort hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond. The move marks Graeme’s return to a venue he knows well from his stint as head chef when the restaurant was run by Martin Wishart more than 10 years […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th May 2025 London Standard Town, Covent Garden David Ellis was first critic into Town, Stevie Parle’s expensively put-together new restaurant in Covent Garden – and gave his thumbs-up to “a Wolseley, reimagined for the modern age”. “True, no […]
Two new Parisian-inspired restaurants opened in London this week, confirming that our longest-lasting gastronomic love affair is also this year’s hottest hospitality trend. First out of the blocks on Tuesday was 74 Duke in Mayfair, from the team behind Supernova, with a brasserie menu including the likes of Terrine de foie gras à la Chartreuse; […]
The 14th-century Three Tuns pub on Henley’s Market Place is to reopen next week – under two friends who first joked about taking it over 25 years ago. The new landlords are Barry Wagner – owner of Gabriel Machin, the butchers next door – and Nigel Sutcliffe, his long-time customer who also owns The Oarsman in […]
Former Pied à Terre head chef Asimakis Chaniotis has opened his first solo London restaurant – Myrtos, on the former site of Aubaine in Old Brompton Road, South Kensington. The latest upmarket Greek restaurant to open in London, Myrtos is named after a famous white marble beach on the island of Kefalonia, where Asimakis passed his […]
The owners of Palé Hall luxury hotel on the edge of Snowdonia national park have opened a gastropub with rooms at the end of their drive, following a £1 million makeover of a village inn dating back to 1695. The Bryntirion Inn, near Bala in north Wales, is decorated throughout with classic car and motorsport […]
