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Tao Group Hospitality and Hakkasan Group has announced that Tao Group Hospitality has acquired Hakkasan Group, “creating a premium hospitality powerhouse that includes a global portfolio of brands and properties with significant potential for future growth”, according to the company. It means the combined group now operates 61 dining and nightlife venues in 22 markets […]
Soho’s iconic Italian hangout Vasco and Piero’s Pavilion has closed due to yet another of the rent disagreements that’s seeing restaurants close. Tragedy struck just days ago as news that this wonderful period piece became a victim of Covid-19 filtered through on social media. Apparently a deal with the landlord was not possible and it’s […]
Following a £10m revamp to restore the site to its former glory, The Windmill Soho – one an icon of sleazy old Soho – will reopen in June as an “exciting 350 capacity, spectacular dining concept and bar”. Even the old, lurid “TABLE DANCING” neon signs have been re-engineered, although they are now designed to fuel […]
Well over 100,000 people have signed a petition to have a plaque mounted on London Bridge in memory of the heroic Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, who died trying to save a woman who had fallen into the Thames. Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, who worked as a commis waiter at the Cinnamon Club in Westminster, jumped into the water around […]
Carlo Scotto has left the well-liked Xier restaurant in Marylebone and will launch a new venture in September. Scotto, former head chef at Xier, will open Amethyst in September, a 24 cover site housed in a former Caffe Nero (so we will soon see a much better use of space). The restaurant, at 52 Stratton […]
Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 25 April 2021. ***** England now has a ‘roadmap’ of dates for the re-opening of restaurants and pubs, which are now allowed to serve single households seated outdoors. Inside dining can start from 17 May […]
Michel Roux Jr is inviting friends, family and colleagues of all deserving pandemic heroes to nominate their loved ones for a chance to enjoy lunch or dinner for two people on the house at his Mayfair restaurant Le Gavroche. “From firemen to food store employees, from teachers, volunteers, charity workers, carers to soldiers, so many […]
The Dorset-based chef Harriet Mansell will open a new wine bar and tap room in Lyme Regis in July. Lilac will be a 40-cover fixture in the coastal town, focusing on low intervention wines and small plates. It will, says the team, “echo the ethos of Harriet’s debut restaurant Robin Wylde, which shines a light on […]
The restaurateur Razak Helalat – you might know of the Coal Shed? – will open Burnt Orange in Brighton in June. Offering food, wine, cocktails, and a specially curated music programme from the legendary DJ Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim), the restaurant has been described as a “grown up” drinking and dining spot. Mimicking the […]
The Garden Museum Cafe, located at the heart of the historic Garden Museum in Lambeth, has re-opened, and launched its outside summer terrace and al fresco garden in the courtyard. The modern-British/European menu is curated by the restaurant’s young head chef George Ryle (ex-Primeur, Padella), who is serving up a weekly-changing menu using produce from […]
