Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times is already working on a revision of her top favourite restaurants, after irate readers disagreed with her Top 50 list a few weeks ago. First to make the cut is this Birmingham spot: “almost austere in a kind of Scandi-Brum way ” which deserves nothing but ” joy and […]
Just a week after Alimentum announced its closure amid financial difficulties, head chef Samira Effa has taken up the same position at The Box Tree in Ilkley. Chef patron Simon Gueller revealed the news on Thursday and it appears Effa has been brought in to help the restaurant win back its Michelin star, which it […]
London’s latest restaurant and shopping ‘quarter’ opens today. Coal Drops Yard is the superb new addition to King’s Cross, just around the corner from Granary Square. It is a beautiful restoration of Victorian brick sheds built in the 1850s to transfer coal from rail to road. On Wednesday of this week we dropped in for […]
Mexican chef Pedro Evia is collaborating with Santo Remedio this November to bring a five-course tasting menu with the aim of showcasing the best of traditional Yucatan cuisine in London. Evia is flying from Mexico to host the dinner, which will take place on November 5 in celebration of Mexico’s Day of the Dead, also […]
Gourmet Burger Kitchen owner Famous Brands has announced it will seek a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), with a possible 17 restaurants sighted for closure. The brand has been struggling for some time and appointed accountants Grant Thornton to pursue the CVA towards the end of a year in which dozens of other groups opted for the […]
Chef Neil Borthwick has taken over the historic dining room at The French House in Soho, stepping down as head chef at the Merchants Tavern in Shoreditch. Borthwick opened the Merchants Tavern in 2013 in collaboration with wife Angela Hartnett and Canteen owners Dominic Lake and Patrick Clayton-Malone. Since then, visitors have appreciated its “value […]
Tamarind Mayfair will reopen this November after an eight-month rebuild and rethink. Since 2001, the Indian restaurant has been impressing diners with its “subtle and fully flavoured” modern cuisine. The new opening will see two newly appointed executive chefs take charge – Karunesh Khanna, formerly head chef of Amaya in Belgravia, and Manav Tuli, past head […]
In the same week that one in five GBKs are to close, another street food pop-up has revealed plans to open its first bricks and mortar restaurant. Burger & Beyond (what else?) will open in Shoreditch (where else?) next month. The 75-cover restaurant will feature an expanded menu, working in new dishes to bolster the […]
‘A mere fourteen months’ after originally planned Bob Bob Cité is set to open. The restaurant, a City sibling to Soho’s “dazzling” but “expensive” Bob Bob Ricard, will launch on Monday March 25 next year in the Leadenhall Building (the ‘Cheesegrater’ if you prefer). Suspended above the 30-meter high open-air atrium will be two dining […]
Marina O’Loughlin visited Andrew Wong’s City newcomer Kym’s for The Sunday Times, “an opening… hotly anticipated by restaurant lovers” (and what she calls his “potentially difficult second album”). Could he pull off his Pimlico triumph (the “electrifying” A Wong) in the “expensive banality” surroundings of the Bloomberg arcade? Despite being “mildly devastated” that there’s no […]
