Grace Dent for The Guardian visits The French House in Soho with some reluctance: it’s a “hollow task to review a restaurant that has tottered on already… for more than 100 years”. But with Neil Borthwick freshly installed at the reigns, she felt obliged to check that he was respecting this last bastion of Soho’s […]
Head chef and oyakata (sushi master) of The Araki – the highest-rated restaurant in the Harden’s 100, and London’s only three Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant – is to leave in March 2019. Mitsuhiro Araki has been in London since 2014, having moved to Britain from Tokyo, where he had a Michelin three-star restaurant previously. Harden’s was the […]
Tonkotsu isn’t the only restaurant about to open in Ealing. Dicken’s Yard is hot property, and while it might not be a Market Halls in Victoria or a Bloomberg Arcade, it’s still attracting names. Simone Remoli, chef and founder of Pasta Remoli, will be opening a new restaurant in Ealing on November 23, bringing his […]
Tonkotsu is to open its tenth restaurant – just six years after launching its first site in Soho. The new branch, in Ealing, is to be located in the new Dickens Yard development and will be a 50-cover restaurant spanning two floors. From November 30, diners will find Tonkotsu’s signature homemade noodle ramens, gyozas and […]
Eyal Jagermann, of The Barbary fame, has teamed up with supper club chefs Billy & Jack and food writer Alexandra Dudley to put on a one-off night to raise money for homeless charity StreetSmart. The event will be held on Friday December 7 from 7pm at Spitalfields co-working space Benk & Bo. Guests will be […]
Thai chain Giggling Squid is continuing to expand at quite a pace. It’s one of the few brands continuing to grow at the moment – with 29 branches to date, six since March, and at least one more to come this year. The restaurant group, which sells simple, crowd-pleasing Thai dishes designed to cater for […]
Thai restaurant som saa has announced it will now be taking reservations, and is also launched a new tasting menu. The menu, which features dishes known as ‘Tem Toh’ (translates to ‘full table’), will act as a tour of Thailand, encompassing many of the country’s regions. An announcement said there will be an emphasis on […]
A major development in Manchester will house a new dining destination from restaurateurs Pablo Flack and David Waddington. London Warehouse will launch in spring 2019 in the city’s Northern Quarter. It’s one of many renovations of former industrial buildings. Let’s not forget a huge Ivy is on the way, too. The project as a whole […]
For The Observer, Jay Rayner recommends that you “find something worth celebrating” in order to eat at Liverpool’s “note perfect” Roski, from former (joint) MasterChef: The Professionals winner, Anton Piotrowski, who Jay remembers judging in 2012. He tried cooking in rural Devon and Plymouth before settling here – all Jay can say is “Lucky Liverpool”. “Care […]
Chef Andrew Fairlie is stepping down from his his restaurant at Gleneagles, the only in Scotland to hold two Michelin stars. Fairlie was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, and since then has undergone chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, but doctors have confirmed the brain tumour is now terminal. As a result, the chef announced he will […]
