The team behind ‘tongue-tingling’ Thai restaurant Som Saa in Shoreditch are to open a new venture in Borough Market later this year. Kolae, which will accommodate 80 guests on three floors of an old coach house, will focus on grilled dishes including whole fish and marinated half chickens, cooked in the style of southern Thailand. […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18 June 2023. ***** The Guardian Grace Dent reviewed Lilienblum, the “most recent opening” from Israeli chef Eyal Shani that had Jimi Famurewa at The Evening Standard impressed but perplexed last week; did Grace feel the same? […]
Amsterdam-based vegan ramen outfit Ramen Impossible makes its UK debut today, 16 June, in a summer-long pop-up at Mercato Metropolitano in London’s Elephant & Castle. Ramen is famously made with a meat-based broth, but Ramen Impossible’s founder, Japanese chef Atsushi Ishida, has developed an alternative using miso, cashew nuts and nutritional yeast. The brand only […]
An idyllic village inn in southwest Scotland has been brought back to life as a gastropub on the strength of a £1million donation from the renewable energy company behind a local wind farm. The Kenmuir Arms near Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway closed down five years ago, before being taken over and refurbished by the […]
Amethyst in Mayfair, which had seemed to be one of the most successful launches of the past year, has closed following a falling out between chef Carlo Scotto (pictured, above) and his backers. The restaurant, with its distinctive jagged communal dining table, won high praise from critics, with the Guardian’s Grace Dent drawing attention to […]
The first of three new beer palaces scheduled for London’s West End opens this month. The Munich-style beer hall Bierschenke Bierkeller spent a decade in the City near Liverpool Street until its lease came to an end, and has now taken over the former Belgo site in Covent Garden. Bierschenke serves six types of sausage […]
Aynhoe Park, a Grade I listed Palladian mansion with a 73-acre park by Capability Brown near Banbury on the Oxfordshire-Northants border, has opened to the public for the first time, in the guise of a grandiose home-furnishing emporium complete with five restaurants and bars. Built in 1615 and later redesigned by Sir John Soane, Aynhoe […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association has just launched the new and improved Food Made Good accreditation tool, making it possible for sustainability in the hospitality sector to be standardised across the globe. After 15 years of operating in the UK, The Sustainable Restaurant Association (The SRA) has created a new globally accessible platform to allow hospitality […]
June is a special time of year. Yes, the mercury rises and the hours of sunshine are longer. And yes, there is asparagus. But June is also Pride month and across the UK, people come together to recognise and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. There are however fears of tokenism, of businesses not doing enough and […]
Evelyn’s Table has been a Harden’s favourite since opening and is currently ranked as the third best restaurant in the UK. But with former chef Luke Selby departing the hobs (returning to Le Manoir, another Harden’s favourite) we spoke to the new captain of the ship, chef James Goodyear, to find out a little more […]
