Possibly London’s smallest restaurant opens in Notting Hill next week – an omakase with just six seats per sitting called Juno, upstairs at Markus Thesleff’s Mexican-Japanese mashup Los Mochis. Juno will serve a 15-course meal costing £180 in two evening sittings – at 6 and 8.30pm, Tuesday to Saturday – overseen by Los Mochis’ executive chef […]
A team who met at Larry’s in Peckham have taken over the former Nest site in Hackney’s Morning Lane to launch Big Night – billed as a ‘British izakaya’ drinking den with meals cooked over a charcoal grill. Jack O’Connor and Joshua Ralphs have between them worked at some of London’s hippest spots, including Flor, Lasdun […]
Happy New Year! Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the fortnight over Christmas 2023. ***** The Evening Standard In a departure from the usual ‘best meals’ lists from our favourite critics, The Standard has produced a list of the worst meals of the year, compiled from the […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18th December 2023. ***** The Evening Standard A “knack for deftly articulated pleasure and willingness to try things”. Jimi Famurewa reviewed The Corner, a “louche long-term kitchen residency” from Jackson Boxer that’s “wedged in between luxury womenswear […]
High-profile Bristol chef Freddy Bird and his wife Nessa are to open a new restaurant in the city’s Georgian enclave of Clifton tomorrow. 1 York Place is named after its address, and takes over the premises occupied by Italian restaurant Rosemarino for 13 years until its closure in July. The Birds also run Little French, […]
A swish, design-led and Japanese-inspired Middle Eastern restaurant opens on Monday (18 December) near Harrods, under the far from glamorous name of Clap. Clap takes over three storeys of a building in Knightsbridge’s Basil Street, and incorporates a main dining room with open kitchen, a street-level café and a rooftop bar. The brand made its […]
A kebab house claiming to be the biggest in Britain opens in Oxford Street next Thursday (21 December) – just in time to feed last-minute Christmas shoppers. Kebhouze is from an Italian-based chain which also has an outlet in Ibiza, and promises “premium ingredients at a low cost [that] prioritise variety“. The menu includes chicken, beef, veal […]
Bar du Champagne, a new bar and bistro that promises fizz at accessible prices backed up by a menu of nibbles to share and comfort food, has opened in Covent Garden. The new venue is from Liana Kazaryan, who ran the former Avobar on the same Henrietta Street premises, and is designed with a retro […]
• L’Enclume in Cartmel voted to number 1 spot in Harden’s Top 100 Best UK Restaurants, followed by Outlaw’s New Road in Port Isaac, and Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland. • Edinburgh and Cambridge are the cities with most Top 100 listings outside of London. • The capital’s dominance of the Top 100 list […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 10th December 2023. ***** The Evening Standard No review from Jimi Famurewa this week, but there were articles about the best restaurants to try in 2024, restaurants open on Christmas Day – from Bob Bob Ricard to […]
