Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, the tiny West End restaurant founded by a refugee from war-torn Damascus, is expanding into bigger premises to offer a wider range of dishes. Imad Alarnab fled his home in 2015, leaving a flourishing restaurant business behind, and cooked for fellow refugees before rebuilding his career as a restaurateur in London. His […]
High-flying Nottingham restaurant Alchemilla has cut its staff, reduced its menu and issued a plea for customers to return as it struggles for survival in tough trading conditions. “We need you,” the restaurant said in an email. “The current economic crisis has taken a severe toll on our ability to stay afloat and continue creating […]
Chef Josh Overington and his wife Victoria are to open a new restaurant with rooms in North Yorkshire this summer, less than a year after closing their highly rated Le Cochon Aveugle in York. Mýse (which rhymes with cheese) is scheduled to open in June in the village of Hovingham, almost 20 miles north of […]
Here’s a quick, bank-holiday round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 9 April 2023 and over the Easter weekend. ***** The Observer “It’s all delightful.” Jay Rayner was in Salford and paid a visit to Sakura; be warned, there’s another restaurant with the same name in the […]
Kudu Collective, the South African-flavoured restaurant group based in southeast London, kicks off a reshuffle next week with the transfer of its Smokey Kudu cocktail bar to Chelsea – its first venture into west London. The 30-cover bar opens on Tuesday 12 April inside the RIXO vintage-inspired fashion store in the King’s Road, having vacated its […]
Jason Atherton and Tom Kerridge, two of the most successful British chefs of the past decade, are planning to open new restaurants in London. Jason’s Row on 5 is described as a “flagship” restaurant over two floors in a new building on Savile Row in Mayfair – just a short walk from Pollen Street Social, his […]
A team from Fenn, the Fulham restaurant that closes for good at the end of this month, will this summer open an intriguing combination of chef’s table and cocktail bar, championing lesser-known British ingredients and whiskeys from the American South. The project, close to Old Street station in Shoreditch, has been put together by chef […]
Former Typing Room chef Lee Westcott will next week unveil the first of his two restaurants at a new luxury hotel and rewilding scheme at Selsdon on the southern outskirts of London. Vervain, billed as an all-day dining room, opens next Thursday (13 April) at Birch, which has replaced the former Selsdon Park Hotel and […]
A former Co-op shop in a village near Balmoral rescued by King Charles is to reopen this month as an upmarket fishmonger/restaurant, part of Swiss art dealers Manuela and Iwan Wirth’s growing Artfarm hospitality group. Fish Shop at Ballater, in Royal Deeside on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, will serve fish ethically sourced […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 2 April 2023. ***** The Observer “Wave after wave of sweet and fiery and sour crashes on the wilder shores of your tongue.” Jay Rayner dived into the “neon-bright Bangkok flavours” at Speedboat Bar, on the Chinatown-fringe […]
