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The hospitality veterans Gearoid Devaney MS and Xavier Rousset MS will launch on September 10 The Black Book, a new wine bar and restaurant on the site of the former members’ club Trade. Trade was established as a refuge for hospitality workers as a post-service hangout, but The Black Book will be open to all. […]
The award-winning Smoke & Salt has left Pop Brixton and is re-opening on September 22 at a brand-new site in Tooting. Chefs and co-founders Aaron Webster (ex-Dinner by Heston and The Latymer at Pennyhill Park) and Remi Williams (Craigie on Main and Deuxave), who initially met at The Shed, Notting Hill, have taken Smoke & […]
From Thursday September 17, running until the end of October, all 19 Gaucho and M restaurants across the capital and in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh, will take a limited number of bookings at 6pm to enjoy a three-course menu – where each dish is £6. Menus are designed by the culinary director for the […]
The National Restaurant Awards auction, held in lieu of the awards proper in order to raise money for the hospitality industry, has made a phenomenal £117,000 for the cause. All the money will go towards supporting hospitality workers who have been hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Last year’s winner, Moor Hall, was amongst the […]
Our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 6 September 2020. Restaurants, pubs, bars and cafes in England are still re-opening at their own pace, and we are seeing an impressive number of new restaurants starting up. The government’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme […]
The former supper club Chishuru has launched its first permanent site in Brixton Village, with the Nigerian-born chef Adejoké ‘Joké’ Bakare having won last year’s Brixton Kitchen competition, which was judged by peers Jackson Boxer and James Cochran, and baker Claire Ptak. Bakare will display classic and modern West African cuisine, and will be the […]
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak today thanked Britons for helping protect thousands of jobs across the UK after statistics revealed that more than 100 million meals were eaten as part of the landmark Eat Out to Help Out scheme. Mr Sunak said the scheme’s popularity helped protect the livelihoods of the 1.8 million people working in […]
Tom Aikens’ 25-seater fine dining destination, Muse, reopened to guests yesterday. The restaurant – housed in a converted Georgian townhouse in old Belgravia – opened in January 2020. “The ethos remains the same, but the menus are refreshed, changing in tandem with the seasons,” said an announcement. Aikens offers “experiential-led dining” (7 or 10-course tasting […]
The pioneering vegetarian restaurant Vanilla Black has announced it will not be reopening after lockdown. The restaurant first made a star name for itself in 2008, having moved to London from York, where it was a firm favourite from the off in 2004. Vanilla Black established itself as a leading restaurant long before the veggie […]
El Pastor’s Tortilleria will reopen on Saturday September 5 as an outdoor taco stand, situated at the 106 Druid Street back entrance on Fridays and Saturdays and the front entrance, 58 Stanworth Street, at the end of Maltby Street Market on Sundays. Originally opened in March 2018 as a taqueria and tortilla factory for the […]
