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Hospitality entrepreneur Melanie Brown is to open The Laundry in Brixton, a “new modern neighbourhood bistro and wine shop” on Coldharbour Lane. Located just outside Brixton Village, The Laundry will be open all day, everyday and will “focus on simple, quality ingredients and diligent care and attention paid to provenance”. But of course. The Laundry […]
Boxpark has appointed financial firm KPMG to help it find further investment to develop its portfolio and expand out of London. The pop-up mall group currently counts Shoreditch, Wembley, and Croydon on its roster, but plans are afoot to cast a wider net. Back in London, Harden’s understands the company was also investigating a location […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 11 August 2019. Pilgrim, Liverpool Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times had very little time for the marketing “tripe” surrounding the new Duke Street Market flagship restaurant she visited in Liverpool – one of the many new additions to the UK’s food scene, […]
Chef Patrick Williams and Amy Corbin, of Corbin & King fame (daughter of the former), plan to open two more sites in Peckham, where their debut restaurant Kudu launched in 2018. The pair announced their plans on Instagram. One fixture will be a tapas restaurant called Little Kudu, and a second will be a cocktail […]
LA hype restaurant Eggslut (yes, that’s what it’s called), has opened in London. At a launch on Tuesday evening, half of West London’s Instagram influencers turned up to photograph egg, bacon and cheese buns, egg salad in brioche, and the ‘Slut’ (again, yes), which is potato puree bedded beneath a coddled egg and chives. In […]
D&D London is heading to Bristol to launch a restaurant and events venue in the city’s Cabot Circus shopping centre. The 13,000sq ft space will feature a restaurant, bars, private dining areas, and an outdoor terrace, all set within an 18th century friary building. The development again sees D&D team up with Hammerson, which the […]
Romy Gill MBE has called time on her Thornbury restaurant Romy’s Kitchen in Thornbury, Gloucestershire. The chef’s Indian restaurant had been going for six years, to wide acclaim and rave reviews, but, Gill said, it was simply no longer sustainable. “It’s been ten years since I had the building, and six years running the restaurant,” […]
Kevin Tickle has decided to leave his head chef role at The Forest Side to embark on new projects. The chef opened the Lake District restaurant, in Grasmere, in February 2017, and within he and his team had scooped up a multitude of awards. For the past three years, Michelin-starred The Forest Side has wowed […]
Steak restaurant Flank has announced a summer residency at The Print House in Stratford. The nose-to-tail concept, from chef Tom Griffiths, will feature an entirely new menu focused on BBQ cooking, and will launch on August 12. It will be Griffiths’ third site, adding to his existing two in Market Halls Victoria, and Old Spitalfields. […]
Harden’s weekly round-up of the restaurant critics’ reviews, from the week ending 4 August 2019. Little French, Bristol Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times was in Bristol checking out the brand-new (and first solo) venture from Freddy Bird (formerly of the city’s Lido restaurant) – with a challenge, no less: “there are four of us […]
