Pop-up-goes-permanent – it’s a familiar story these days. But what about ‘permanent-restaurant-not-opening-on-schedule-launches-pop-up-to-keep-its-dream-alive’? Granted, it’s not quite as catchy, but it transpires that that is indeed why chef Scott Hallsworth decided to open a temporary version of his Japanese izakaya (pub), Kurobuta, in October last year. It turns out that before Kurobuta’s arrival last week at its […]
Coeliac disease, an auto-immune disorder caused by a reaction to gluten, is much more common than you might think. One in every hundred people in the UK is affected and as a result can’t eat dietary staples like wheat, barley, rye and other grains. This can make choosing a restaurant a bit of a nightmare, […]
The Editors’ review of Bird We ‘get’ bird in Shoreditch Grace Dent reviews Blanchette The woman who loves a good bistro, but doesn’t like to share City Social opens at Tower 42 Jason Atherton’s new restaurant has star quality (in the form of Benedict Cumberbatch) The Standard’s Fay Maschler has a busy week First […]
A new Greek street food restaurant, 21 Bateman Street, has just opened in the heart of Soho. The menu heavily features souvlaki – skewered lamb, chicken pork or veg – cooked over charcoal, as well as other Greek classics like tzatziki, pitta, olives and baked feta. The tiny, 22-cover restaurant, which offers take-away as well as […]
It may be a London classic, but Odette’s has gone and got a bold new look. Out with the white table linens and mirrors, and in with the leather banquettes and whitewashed brick. The Primrose Hill stalwart, which opened in 1978, has also added a chef’s kitchen table (as is de rigueur nowadays), and there is […]
In the heart of Shoreditch, a surprisingly straight-down-the-line chicken shop, offering a good range of glazes and dips, without affectation. Given the street-credible location – actually under a railway bridge – what’s remarkable about this Shoreditch newcomer is how it’s really not trying that hard to be hip. Remarkably, no one has bothered trying to […]
In a rare ‘exchange’ match, Cornwall’s Nathan Outlaw and Soho’s Pitt Cue Co. have organised two reciprocal one-night pop-ups. London goes to Rock (18 May) Chefs Tom Adams and Tom Swanny will leave their Newburgh Street home and head to the Cornish town of Rock, for a one-off BBQ. There are only 40 places at the ticketed […]
Rather seems long-term ‘serious’ restaurateur David Moore may have hit upon a vulgarly successful mass-market concept. The man behind Pied-Ã -Terre and L’Autre Pied is on the cusp of announcing two further sites for his US-style smokehouse, One Sixty, reports Caterer & Hotelkeeper. Since its opening in West Hampstead in April, Moore says that One Sixty has […]
The chef who can seemingly do no wrong (and is an old friend of Benedict Cumberbatch), Jason Atherton, opens his new restaurant, set inside the dizzying heights of Tower 42, today (1 May). Formerly in the hands of Gary Rhodes, the new dining spot City Social (we see a pattern emerging here) occupies the 24th […]
Ahead of the launch of her American diner, Stax Carnaby, Bea (Bea’s of Bloomsbury) Vo will hold a four day Louisiana-style Crawfish Boil at the restaurant’s new Soho premises. There will be mountains of spicy, cajun food – but be warned – no plates or cutlery. The pop-up will take place from 7-10 June at […]
