A new restaurant relying entirely on Scottish ingredients and British wines opens next week in Edinburgh from chef Henry Dobson and his Japanese wife Akiko. Moss, in Stockbridge, marks a debut for Henry, a former sound engineer who trained as a chef at Ballymaloe House in Cork and Noma in Copenhagen. He built much of […]
A historic East End pub will reopen at the end of February after a three-decade break – lovingly refurbished, and with a stand-alone restaurant upstairs. The Grade II-listed Knave of Clubs, in Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, dates back to 1880 and served traders from the adjacent Club Row bird and pet market. After closing as a […]
Rick Stein is offering a menu at 1975 prices to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. The menu features starters and desserts priced in pence, with shellfish soup at 50p, ragout de coquilles St Jacques et turbot a la crème de basilic at 65p and raspberry bavarois for 30p, while the […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 19th January 2025 London Standard Regency Café, Westminster David Ellis followed up on the news that the iconic Regency Café is for sale by revisiting what he called the “archetypal ideal of a Propa Caff”, whose good looks […]
Veteran kosher restaurateur Tony Page has transferred his flagship Island Grill at the Royal Lancaster hotel overlooking Hyde Park to Marylebone, where it has taken over the former Chotto Matte site on the corner of Paddington and Chiltern Streets. After almost five decades in the industry, Tony (left in picture) is described as “the gold […]
Highly praised chef Carlo Scotto will make his comeback this spring after an 18-month break with a new, ingredient-led restaurant at the Crazy Bear hotel in Beaconsfield – and he promises it will be a “completely different beast” from the two ambitious London restaurants where he wowed critics and diners, Amethyst in Mayfair and Xier in […]
Dynamic Glasgow restaurateur Nico Simeone has closed his fish specialist Sole Club to make way for a new pan-Asian concept, Extra_Ordinary, headed by Australian-born chef Tobias ‘Toby’ Fiegel (pictured). Sole Club, which combined experimental seafood cuisine with classic fish ‘n’ chip shop fare, opened in February last year in the Finnieston premises where Simeone founded […]
Café Britaly, the hybrid British caff/Italian comfort food restaurant that opened to critical acclaim in Packham last year, has closed down after just eight months. Co-owners Richard Crampton-Platt (left in picture) and Alex Purdie (right) say they were unable to build enough momentum to generate sustainable revenue in the face of “challenging trading conditions, which were […]
Top pizza independent Santa Maria has opened a new branch in Kew, taking over the premises long occupied by Bruce Poole’s The Glasshouse. Santa Maria has expanded very slowly since its launch by Neapolitan-born founders in Ealing in 2010, with branches opening in Fulham, Fitzrovia and most recently Islington. Combining “top-quality ingredients and fabulous bases”, […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 12th January 2025 London Standard Nipotina, Mayfair David Ellis found a lot to like about the latest opening from Mayfair powerhouse Samyukta Nair – an all-day Italian that “exists to assuage stresses that exist only outside its door”. What he meant […]
