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 […]
Corbin & King will close its Islington restaurant Bellanger on August 11. In an announcement sent via email, group co-founder Jeremy King said the Alsatian brasserie, which traded for three years, simply didn’t work out financially. He wrote: “It is with great sadness I must inform you that, after over three years trading, we have […]
Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, the chef and manager team best known for New York’s three Michelin-star Eleven Madison Park, have ended their working relationship. This might ring alarm bells in anyone looking forward to Claridge’s new restaurant, Davies and Brook, which Humm and Guidara were set to open. Don’t worry – it will still […]
Wiltons Holdings, which owns London institution Wiltons, as well as the swanky Italian Franco’s, in St James, is to open its third restaurant. Locket’s, a cafe and wine bar, will become the group’s first site to open since 2005, and will launch in October on Bury Street. Wiltons Group has been run by the same […]
Terra Terra, an all-day Italian restaurant concept, will launch in Islington this September, as London’s love of pasta continues with aplomb. Set over two floors, Terra Terra will be multi-faceted. The restaurant will focus on the food of Tuscany, inspired by its markets and classic produce. By day, pasta will chime. But it will also […]
Celebrated chef James Cochran, who currently runs his casual fine dining restaurant 1251 in Islington, is to launch a street food concept called Goat. The Great British Menu winner is opening a site at Boxpark Croydon, with a view to set up there permanently. On the BBC2 show, Cochran wowed judges with his goat meat […]
Crowdfunding chef Gary Usher, the man behind the north west’s Elite Bistros group, has made a documentary. The show charts his journey from his first site, Sticky Walnut in Chester, to Pinion, his opening in Prescot, and the first restaurant to open in the town in 30 years. The programme, which is set to air […]
Piedmontese DinnerBarolo and Barbaresco side by side with guest speaker Michael Palij, BA, MW October 8 2019, 7pm£230 per person Tickets are now on sale for this exclusive Celebration of Piedmont’s Finest Wines on October 8 at Enoteca Turi in Pimlico – proud curators of London’s foremost Italian cellar. Join Peter Harden, Giuseppe Turi and Michael Palij […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 28 July 2019. Heritage, London W1 Jay Rayner for The Observer made some sweeping generalisations about Switzerland to start his review (“it’s expensive, tooth-achingly polite, efficient and profoundly committed to dairy fats”) but only to point out that Heritage manages just three out […]
Chef Marcus Rohlen, formerly of Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social and Richard Corrigan’s eponymous Mayfair restaurant and bar, has been appointed head chef at Frenchie. Rohlen, originally from Sweden, will lead the team at Gregory Marchand’s heavily French Covent Garden restaurant, which could do with a boost. Where in previous years reporters urged others to […]
