Mitch Tonks has launched his tenth Rockfish restaurant, in Salcombe, with another scheduled to open in Sidmouth this October. The two Devon openings follow another at Lyme Regis in Dorset two months ago. And in a busy week for Mitch, he has also launched a three-month residency of his Dartmouth flagship The Seahorse at Brown’s […]
A new seafood bistro and cocktail bar called Noisy Oyster is to launch in Shoreditch next week, from the duo behind Soho grill Firebird. The restaurant promises to match modern seafood dishes with signature mini martinis. The seafood menu ranges from a raw bar and whole grilled fish to share to dry-aged tuna cheeseburger with […]
A smart French bistro promising a chic and slightly nostalgic taste of Paris opens in Notting Hill next week. Chez Lui, in Kensington Park Road, is the first offering from La Bistrot Collection, a new group from the duo behind the global restaurant brand Bagatelle. In its Instagram previews, Chez Lui is pitched as a […]
A new-wave, retro-inspired all day Vietnamese cafe called Lai Rai opens on Rye Lane in Peckham tomorrow, Saturday 14 June. Meaning “little by little”, Lai Rai is said to be inspired by the ‘bia hoi’ tradition of meeting up with friends for a beer and a snack. It will serve sweet Vietnamese coffee and bánh […]
An ambitious Chilean restaurant with a menu overseen by Santiago-based chef Carolina Bazán (pictured) opens tomorrow in Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia. Mareida is the brainchild of first-time restaurateur Prenay Agarwal, a Mumbai-born former financier who acquired a taste for Chilean cuisine while living in Santiago. Hailed as South America’s top female chef by the World’s […]
Former MasterChef: the Professionals winner and leading Midlands chef Stuart Deeley launches a new restaurant next week at Mallory Court country house hotel outside Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. Birmingham-bred Stu, who won MasterChef in 2019, worked at Mallory Court early in his career after studying at Halesowen College. He has had roles at some of […]
High-profile pastry chef, writer and Junior Bake Off judge Ravneet Gill and her fellow-chef husband Mattie Taiano have this week opened their first restaurant, a ‘chophouse’ called Gina in Chingford, on north London’s Essex outskirts. The restaurant – for many years a family-run Italian local, next door to the station – is named in memory of […]
Paris-based Big Mamma Group are opening two enormous new Instagram-friendly Italianate extravaganzas this month – Circolo Popolare (pictured) in Manchester, their first UK venue outside London, and Barbarella in Canary Wharf. Circolo Popolare Manchester, which launched last week, is themed around an al-fresco festa in Sicily and set across two floors of ex-footballer Gary Neville’s £400million […]
Superstar West Country chef Michael Caines will finally make his London debut this year following the announcement of his appointment as ‘culinary strategist’ at the Stafford hotel in St James’s. Under the new arrangement, his Lympstone Manor in Devon becomes an ‘associate member’ of the Stafford Collection. Michael has been a dominant figure on the […]
