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Alimentum, the respected but troubled Cambridge restaurant with “undoubtedly good” food but very little else, has closed. Head chef Samira Effa announced the news on social media. Financial difficulties were labelled as the cause on social media, though we cannot confirm that. A statement from the Alimentum account on Twitter said: “The restaurant and kitchen […]
Chef Simon Whiteside has announced a new solo enterprise – Roe, in London’s Pop Brixton. Whiteside co-founded fish and seafood restaurant Hook in Camden last year. The chef will open a new 32-cover restaurant south of the river on November 7. At Roe, the chef will again focus on sustainable seafood from the British and Irish […]
Richard Falk, formerly head chef at Robin Gill’s consistently strong The Dairy in Clapham, has revealed plans for his own venture. Falk will launch London bar and restaurant Lino on November 9. The site, a former linoleum – hence the name – and carpet warehouse will open in the City. Lino, however, will aim not to […]
A new Vapianos will open at Tower Bridge on October 26. The restaurant will be housed within the One Tower Bridge development. Not everyone has found the location fruitful. We reported previously that the casual Italian (Hamburg-based) restaurant chain would be doubling its London presence; this Vapianos branch is just the beginning. Next up will be […]
BaoziInn Romilly Street, the Chinese restaurant that serves northern Chinese street food and colourful Cantonese ‘fusion’ dim sum, is to open a second site in November. The Soho restaurant will launch a stall at Victoria’s revamped Market Halls. Since 1909, Terminus Place has been home to an Edwardian shopping arcade, a traditional restaurant, and a […]
Harden’s invites you to an exclusive celebration of British Isles cuisine with Richard Corrigan to mark his 10th Year at Corrigans Restaurant Tickets are now on sale for this exclusive one-off event at Corrigan’s in Mayfair to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. On Monday 19 November, Richard Corrigan is marking his flagship Mayfair restaurant’s 10th anniversary […]
Harden’s has five copies of Daniel Clifford’s new book ‘Out of my Tree – Midsummer House‘ to give away to readers. Published on Midsummer’s Day this year, Out of my Tree is part autobiography, part cookbook; a warts-and-all account of the pressures and triumphs of Daniel’s 20 years in the hospitality industry. From a broken home to working […]
Five stars for Andrew Wong’s new City restaurant in The Evening Standard from Fay Maschler. She admits to feeling “proprietorial” about the chef, having been the first to review his reincarnation of his parents Pimlico restaurant in 2012, delighting in the ” skill, wit, inventiveness, subversion and astonishment” of the dim sum (and, yes, she squeezes […]
