The trio behind Highbury restaurant Lupa – restaurateur Ed Templeton, chef Naz Hassan and actor Theo James – have followed it up just nine months later by opening Ornella in Hackney’s Wilton Way. While the menu at Lupa is inspired by Rome, Ornella takes its culinary cues from Milan – where Naz grew up – and its name […]
High-profile chef Monica Galetti has launched a restaurant in Primrose Hill with a social purpose – to provide career training to homeless people and recovering addicts. 130 Primrose, which opened this week, takes its name from the area and also from the ‘prima rosa’ flower, representing new beginnings. For Monica, best known as a judge on […]
Legendary Philadelphia pizzaiolo Joe Beddia has joined forces with Ed McElroy of Four Legs – the team behind north London pub The Plimsoll pub and fish bar Tollingtons – to open Bar Etna in Newington Green. The founders say Bar Etna “will blend the spirit of New York and Philadelphia pizza culture with the ease of an […]
High-flying Indian restaurant brand Trèsind opens its first UK branch in Mayfair today (8 May), offering a take on the cuisine that earned chef Himanshu Saini (pictured) three Michelin stars in four years at its Dubai flagship. The launch follows hot on the heels of Oudh 1722 from Birmingham’s Aktar Islam in Borough and shortly […]
Highly rated Bath restaurant the Olive Tree has reduced its prices to attract more covers, as hospitality venues grapple with continuing tight market conditions. Executive head chef Chris Cleghorn’s new à la carte menu offers a choice of two dishes at each of its three courses for £95, with snacks, bread and sweet treats thrown […]
Birmingham-based chef Aktar Islam, whose stellar flagship Opheem has taken Indian cuisine to new heights in recent years, opens his first London venue today (May 1) – with another restaurant following later this month in Bristol. Oudh 1722, his London debut, has taken over the former site of Lupins in a listed Victorian building on the […]
Longstanding Brighton restaurant Gingerman heads a list of notable restaurants around the country that have announced their closure this week – most of them citing financial headwinds for the decision. The other venues which have called time include rooftop restaurant Climat in Manchester, ultra-local Chapters in Hay-on-Wye, fried chicken specialist Mollis in Nottingham and 104 in […]
A successful London supper club is to open its first permanent venue next week with the May 6 launch of All Roads in Brixton. Chefs Malika Green and Paschelle Brown have tested All Roads in a series of sold-out evenings over the past three years, assembling a distinctive menu which draws on their Caribbean heritage and British, European and […]
A restaurant which mixes fast-food classics with high-end luxury ingredients opened this week within the Lowndes hotel in Belgravia. Billed as a ‘Bistrot Américain’, Avi is from the team behind The Prince Arthur nearby, a traditional pub now serving upmarket Basque seafood. Chef Joshua Conte, a former soldier who has worked at Heston Blumenthal’s pub […]
Restaurants the length and breadth of Britain raised £1.17 million last winter to help tackle homelessness through inviting diners to add a voluntary £1 per table to their bill. With rough sleeping reaching its highest recorded level – 4,793 people were recorded sleeping rough on a single night in 2025 – more than 650 restaurants joined the […]
