Veteran Japanese restaurant Yoshino is to reopen following a three-year search for new premises after losing its long-term perch in an alleyway off Piccadilly Circus. It will move to St James’s, a few minutes walk away, taking over the premises until recently occupied by Al Duca in Duke of York Street. The family-run Italian restaurant […]
Italian-inspired supper club-turned-restaurant Forza Win is to close next week, with founders Bash Redford and Michael Lavery planning to expand their successful spinoff Forza Wine. The pair started out on a casual basis at the Truman Brewery in Whitechapel in 2012, before switching to a permanent base in a Peckham warehouse. That closed during the […]
A high-end Chinese restaurant featuring the cuisines of Canton and Hubei with a signature luxury set menu at £388 a head is launching this month in Fitzrovia. 3 Gorges has taken over the former Trattoria Mondello in Goodge Street, across the road from founder Li Zhang’s Sichuan-inspired restaurant Sanxia Renjia, which also has branches in […]
Ealing’s Santa Maria pizza is to take over the restaurant space at the Frontline Club near Paddington station this month as the brand gears up for a major expansion. Founders Pasquale Chionchio and Angelo Ambrosio opened their first pizzeria in 2010 and have expanded slowly since then, taking 15 years to reach five branches – but […]
Edinburgh-based special events chef Barry Bryson today opens his debut seafood restaurant, Barry Fish, on the historic Leith waterfront. In more than a decade cooking for events, Barry has worked for high-end clients including Jupiter Artland, Glenmorangie, Louis Vuitton, Aston Martin and the British Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. His pop-ups have included a sold-out season […]
Our weekly roundup of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 9th February 2025 London Standard The French House, Soho Theming his review around Valentine’s Day, David Ellis declared his passion for a restaurant he loves – upstairs at a veteran Soho watering-hole, where Scottish chef Neil Borthwick (“primary influences Michel Bras and […]
Highly rated Norwich chef Roger Hickman is to close his self-named restaurant after 15 years, blaming economic conditions and changes in the industry for his decision. It will serve its last meals on March 30. Roger worked at Adlards restaurant on the same site before taking it over himself in 2010. Since then, it has […]
Shaun Moffat is to open his debut restaurant as chef patron in Manchester city centre this spring, combining ‘thoughtful British cooking’ and ‘Northern hospitality’ at Winsome, in the glass atrium of the Whitworth Locke Hotel on Princess Street. Shaun (pictured centre) made his name locally at the Edinburgh Castle in Ascots – highly praised for its […]
Two heavyweight French restaurants are pulling out of London, with the closure of La Dame de Pic in the City and Café Lapérouse in the Old War Office (OWO) building in Whitehall. La Dame de Pic, the UK outpost of highly decorated French chef Anne-Sophie Pic (pictured), will serve its final meals next Saturday, 15 […]
Leytonstone’s wildly popular Thai canteen Singburi is to be reborn in Shoreditch under a new guise this spring. Run for many years as a family-operated, cash-only BYO that was packed out for every service, the Leytonstone venue announced its closure in November for an open-ended “sabbatical”. Now chef Sirichai Kularbwong (left in photo), the son […]
