Tom Kerridge has reshuffled his central London offer at the grand Corinthia Hotel in Northumberland Avenue off Trafalgar Square, with the opening tomorrow of a new bar called Georgie’s. It is named after the chef’s beloved boxer dog, whose paw print was preserved in cement during building at his Marlow flagship the Hand and Flowers […]
Chef Elliott Kaye will next week launch Marrion’s Bar in Hackney, his follow-up to Norman’s Cafe in Archway, which he ran for five years with Richie Hayes until it closed last summer. The new venue on Morning Lane is Elliott’s first solo project, and he says: “I wanted Marrion’s to be somewhere I’d actually want […]
A new pub opens two minutes’ walk from Bank station in the City next week offering £6 pints of Guinness and lobsters fresh from the display tank. The Albatross has taken an ex-Brown’s – originally the Commonwealth Bank of Australia – on Old Jewry, and is the first pub from Wild Group founders George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya […]
Former Raby Hunt chef James Close opens a purpose-built restaurant called Atlas at Rockliffe Hall near Darlington next week, with the declared ambition to establish it as “one of the world’s best restaurants“. Atlas is one of six dining and bar options at Rockliffe Hall, a luxury resort hotel which has undergone a multi-million-pound transformation […]
The team behind west London restaurant Dorian is to open a new Japanese venture near Notting Hill Gate station next week that combines two separate hit residencies, Urchin and Robin’s Ramen. Nakimushi – which means ‘cry-baby’ in Japanese – has taken over a three-storey townhouse in Kensington Mall, providing a permanent home for two residencies that made […]
Gordon Ramsay is to open a self-named venue in a prominent site on London’s South Bank next Tuesday (1 September), having taken over the restaurant in Sea Containers luxury hotel. It is his first new launch since the widely publicised opening of his 100th restaurant earlier this summer – but has attracted surprisingly little attention. Sea […]
A new boutique hotel opens in Mayfair next week called The Shepherd, with a modern all-day brasserie called Fayre. The 82-room hotel replaces the former Park Lane Mews Hotel, in a refurbished block of townhouses above a ‘secret wartime bunker’ from the 1940s, near cute Shepherd Market. Fayre offers a menu of classic European dishes using […]
Former Mangal II chef Sertaç Dirik is opening a new restaurant in Soho next week called Kid, in partnership with David Carter, the restaurateur behind a string of hits from Smokestak and Manteca in Shoreditch to Oma and Agora in Borough Market. Sertaç started out in the kitchen at his family’s Turkish grill in Dalston […]
Chef Dom Chapman (left in photo) and restaurateur Nigel Sutcliffe, who worked together at the Fat Duck 25 years ago, have joined forces to revive the Jack O’Newbury in the Berkshire village of Binfield, which reopens next Wednesday. ‘The Jack’ is a former village inn close to both Windsor and Ascot that has been transformed […]
Former Pahli Hill head chef Avinash Shashidhara is opening his first pub next week – the Talli Queen, formerly known as the Queen Adelaide, on the Uxbridge Road in Shepherd’s Bush. Taking inspiration from “Kerala’s toddy shops, Bangalore’s neighbourhood pubs and bars, the military canteens of southern India and the chai stalls and kebab joints of Lucknow”, […]
