Esti, a Greek restaurant cooking over a wood fire with Australian ingredients and influences, is to open this Sunday, 12 March, in a former Victorian police station in Shoreditch. Founded by Kostas Vais of the 3 Little Pigs souvlaki food truck, Esti has secured a six-month residency at TT Liquor in Kingsland Road ahead of […]
A new Danish steakhouse called KöD – meat in Danish – has opened in the City of London, serving beef from Britain, Uruguay and the US along with Japanese wagyu – all with a signature swoosh of “velvet carrot purée”. Founded in Ã…rhus in 2014, KöD now has branches in Copenhagen as well as Oslo and Stavanger […]
Fenn, one of the most acclaimed restaurant openings of recent times in Fulham, is to close down at the end of next month after just two years in operation. In a message to customers on their mailing list, its management said “the staffing shortages plaguing the industry since the pandemic [mean that] keeping the restaurant […]
A couple of long-term senior staff at Newcastle’s House of Tides have quit their jobs to launch their own ambitious restaurant in Durham – with the blessing of their mentor, House of Tides founder Kenny Atkinson (middle in photo). Jake and Laura Siddle will open Faru on Durham’s Silver Street this spring, offering a seasonal tasting […]
Our summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 5 March 2023. ***** The Observer Jay Rayner dropped in on 10 Tib Lane during his recent visit to Manchester (see below for a link to his interview with Manchester Live). The “trio of Manchester hospitality veterans behind […]
Newcastle Quayside wine-bar and restaurant St Vincent will re-open next week – three years after closing down when the Covid pandemic struck. Owner Terry Laybourne (pictured centre, with Martin Malinowski, left, and Matt Clarkson), has already reopened the other venues in his 21 Hospitality Group. He said: “It feels wonderful to be finally re-opening St Vincent […]
A new wine bar specialising in pasta cooked by a former River Café chef opens in Battersea today. Archway occupies a railway arch opposite the entrance to Battersea Park and close to the new Battersea Power Station development. The two women behind Archway are Emily Few Brown, who launched the catering company Spook almost ten […]
Chef Andrew Sheridan is moving his highly rated tasting-menu restaurant 8 from Birmingham to Liverpool, in a move he describes as a “homecoming” to the city of his birth. The new venue will be close to The Cavern, where The Beatles started out. He said: “Liverpool is my home and when the opportunity arose, we […]
A chef and a sommelier with impressive pedigrees have teamed up to open an ambitious ‘chef’s table’ restaurant in Edinburgh this spring. Eòrna – barley in Gaelic – will have no staff, with the founding pair providing a “pared-back, intimate, yet sophisticated dining experience”. Chef Brian Grigor (left in photo) ran the kitchen of Number One at […]
The Wolseley is to be rolled out as a “brand” in the Far East alongside a more relaxed Café Wolseley sub-brand with branches in Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford, under the ownership of Thai-based Minor International, which took control almost a year ago. Dillip Rajakarier, Minor’s chief executive, outlined plans to open Wolseley restaurants in Hong […]
