Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 21 January 2024 ***** The Evening Standard Jimi Famurewa reviewed Kebhouze, the new Oxford Street kebab joint from Italian businessman and “internet personality” Gianluca Vacchi which claims to be the UK’s biggest “despite the fact 220-cover Green […]
Chef Claude Bosi is to open a new restaurant on Chelsea’s Fulham Road at the end of this month dedicated to the food of his native Lyons – and named in memory of his grandmother, Josephine. Serving French bistro classics alongside tradition Lyonnais specialities, Josephine is also Claude’s first joint business venture with his wife, Lucy. […]
Harden’s co-founder Peter Harden was a key contributor to a Radio 4 programme broadcast last weekend that examined the failure of Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain Jamie’s Italian. Quoting from the annual Harden’s surveys, Peter said that the apparently successful group was failing to deliver the goods several years before it went bust. The first Jamie’s […]
St John restaurant is decamping to Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly next month while its base near Smithfield Market is refurbished. The residency – the first in Fortnums’ long history – brings together two icons of British gastronomy: the victualler to royalty, most famous now for its afternoon teas, was founded as long ago as 1707, […]
A group of chefs and food-writers including Sami Tamimi, founding partner in Ottolenghi deli-restaurants, and Ravinder Bhogal of Jikoni are hosting a Souk el Salam or peace market in London next Sunday, 28 January, to raise funds for aid to Gaza. The souk is to be hosted by Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, whose owner, Imad Alarnab, […]
One of London’s last remaining traditional pie and mash shops, Manze’s in Deptford, is expected to close down next year when its owner George Mascall retires to Norfolk. George is the grandson of Michele Manze, an Italian who settled in London and founded a pie-shop dynasty. The Deptford shop opened in 1914 and is now […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 14th January 2024. ***** The Evening Standard David Ellis grumbled about the travel time to the new permanent Clapton location of chef Abby Lee’s Mambow, but even with a “bad beginning” (“queuing has not been planned for” and there was […]
Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is planning to bring celebrated Bristol restaurant Casamia back to life – 18 months after closing it down permanently as ‘financially unviable’. Posting on Instagram, he announced: “Casamia will reopen again. Unfinished business.” The restaurant was originally launched in 1997 by Peter’s parents as a relatively modest suburban trattoria, before being transformed by […]
Michael Sager of Hackney wine bar Sager + Wilde is opening a new venue near Victoria Park this month. Bar Bruno is set in a cute Victorian stable, and will serve natural wines alongside small plates with a focus on Swiss-style filled pretzels. The venture will operate as a shop by day, with everything on […]
An Italian steakhouse from Lecce in Puglia has opened a London branch in Chelsea – with little in the way of introduction or promotion. Tabisca has taken over a site near Sloane Square long occupied by Como Lario, and more recently by short-lived restaurants Liv and 1771. Tabisca’s menu showcases a selection of Italian raw and […]
