Edinburgh chef Scott Smith (right in photo) is helping launch a new pub in Stockbridge next week – The Captain Darling – having made the difficult decision to close his highly rated fine-dining restaurant Fhior. Named after a character in classic TV comedy series Blackadder, the new pub is from John Howard (left)‘s Òir Group, […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18th May 2025 London Standard Josephine, Marylebone The first reviews have been published for Claude Bosi’s highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s smash hit Josephine Bouchon – and so far, it’s a split decision. David Ellis was unconvinced by […]
Leading Indian chef Vivek Singh opens his first restaurant in northern England next week – a branch of his Cinnamon Kitchen at the Queens Hotel in Leeds city centre. Facing Leeds station, the new venture takes its inspiration from the Himsagar Express, a weekly rail service that crosses India from north to south, a distance […]
Chef Chet Sharma has designed a new menu of snacks and small plates for the plush Artesian cocktail bar at the The Langham hotel in Portland Place, which will be unveiled next week. Chet, whose hit Mayfair restaurant BiBi offers what the 2025 Harden’s guide describes as ‘possibly the best sophisticated Indian dining in town‘, […]
A restaurant that aims to raise the profile of Ukrainian gastronomy is to launch in Notting Hill next week. The first UK project from entrepreneur Polina Sychova, Sino will showcase the cooking of chef Eugene Korolev, the president of Ukraine’s Bocuse D’Or team. The restaurant takes its name from the Ukrainian word for hay (pronounced […]
The team behind highly rated Italo-Japanese fusion specialist Angelina in Dalston is to open a bigger, more relaxed pasta and grill restaurant in Shoreditch next week. Called Osteria Angelina, the venue is in the new Norton Folgate development next to Shoreditch station. It follows in the footsteps of the original Angelina, which opened in 2019 […]
An ambitious new restaurant billed as the first open-kitchen chef’s table in Suffolk has opened in Bury St Edmunds, backed by Clove Club and Noble Rot investor Linda Keenan. Named Bellota – Spanish for acorn, key to the diet of Pata Negra pigs – the 20-cover venture is a collaboration with Spanish-born chef Ruben Aguilar […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 11th May 2025 London Standard The Lavery, South Kensington Stepping in as guest reviewer, fashion designer Jasper Conran welcomed the opening of this venue of “restrained glamour” in an area that has been a “gastronomic wasteland” since the demise […]
Two well-known London restaurants closed temporarily this week following fires in their kitchen extraction systems – Som Saa in Spitalfields and Straker’s in Notting Hill. Straker’s will reopen as soon as possible, initially as a cold bar, following a fire that damaged parts of both the kitchen and restaurant. No injuries were reported. “We’re still investigating […]
A new all-day bakery and restaurant pitched as an antidote to the austerity of recent years launches next week on the former site of Forza Win in Camberwell Church Street. Hello JoJo takes its name from Jo (JoJo) Lavender, co-founder with Rob Newlan. They say: “Hello JoJo is a true celebration of the very special […]
