Vietnamese restaurant group Pho is growing apace with the addition of another site in the City, this time in the One New Change shopping centre near St Paul’s, also home to Jamie’s Barbecoa and Gordo’s Bread Street Kitchen. Opening on the former site of a Caffe Concerto, it will be the company’s twelfth premises and […]
With more pedigree than a Crufts champion, Yoann Chevet – who has worked for Le Meurice, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, The Connaught and Galvin at the Windows (to name but a few) – has struck out on his own. The impressively-credentialed chef has launched a new 28-cover restaurant, Sinbaro, in Battersea Rise. Although his background […]
Jamie Barber, the man behind Brazilian BBQ group Cabana and Hush Brasseries (pictured), has secured a £5 million cash injection to help expand both businesses. Cabana, which already has five London sites, will get the lion’s share (£3m) to help it grow nationally, with three further openings by the end of the year, including a site […]
The people behind Zoilo and Casa Malevo have launched what they call ‘London’s first Argentine butcher and wine merchant’. Abasto, nestled in the cosy area estate agents call Connaught Village, also includes a dining room for 16 people and an events space for masterclasses. Abasto follows several other recent restaurant openings which have a decidedly multi-purpose feel. There’s […]
Handily located near Piccadilly Circus, a characterful and upbeat dining bar/restaurant bringing refreshing modern Israeli cuisine to the heart of the West End. Serving ‘the food of modern day Jerusalem’ – in Chinatown – this quirky spot is clearly not your typical newcomer. And it’s not just the mismatch between the culinary style and the […]
A grand old theatre pub that had fallen on hard times has been rescued and revived by the Renaissance Pub group. The Latchmere in Battersea has now reopened after extensive refurbishment to the bar, dining room, garden and upstairs theatre. It is the seventh site purchased by Renaissance Pubs, who seem to be doing their […]
Cardiff is the new place to be. At least that’s according to the founder of Wahaca, Thomasina Miers, who has announced plans to open an outpost in the Welsh capital this autumn. The city, congenial as it is, has always been a bit of a restaurant desert, a fact implicitly acknowledged by Miers in her […]
A new Portuguese piri piri chicken restaurant, Fire and Feathers, has opened today on Fulham Road. Founded by first-time restaurateur Harry Deighton, Fire and Feathers is London’s latest pop-up-goes-perm (following a temporary residency last year at the Earl of Portobello, Westbourne Park). The restaurant, which will has an interior designed by 44th Hill (who also decked out […]
A crowd-funded start-up hoping to bring oysters back to the masses has taken its unique proposition on the road in a double decker bus. The Bloody Oyster – fresh from a shuck-cessful run of pop-up events around town – will be found parked beside the River Thames this summer, as part of the Southbank’s Festival […]
Another slice of Americana is set to hit our shores in the form of US pizza chain, Project Pie. And where has this company chosen to plant its first European restaurant? Why Dundee of course! But Project Pie isn’t stopping there, Scottish domination is on the agenda with five more sites planned over the next […]
