Leeds chef Liz Cottam is closing her gastrobar Emba at the end of February, in the face of “crushing costs” that have brought her a trio of closures in the past 18 months. She launched the Scandi-style Emba less than a year ago on the back of a successful £65,000 crowdfunding campaign, taking over the […]
A new boutique hotel called the Newman with an all-day brasserie serving North European-inspired comfort food opens this Sunday 1 February, just north of Oxford Street in Fitzrovia. Brasserie Angelica has its own bar and a terrace for outdoor eating in warmer weather, with the added attraction of a sandwich trolley at lunchtime. The kitchen […]
Hoppers is opening its fourth site next week, in the former Lyle’s premises in Shoreditch’s landmark Tea Building – and this time with a shift of focus onto the food of South India as well as Sri Lanka. Part of the JKS restaurant stable, Hoppers launched 10 years ago in Soho, spearheading a surge of […]
Chef Tony Parkin is to open his first solo restaurant next week – Daise, in Oxton on the Wirral, in premises occupied for almost two decades by Marc Wilkinson’s acclaimed Fraiche. Tony has teamed up with Andrew Sheridan’s Open Restaurant group, based across the Mersey in Liverpool, which has run the site under the name Oxa […]
Hugely popular Cantonese canteen Dim Sum Duck in King’s Cross has opened a second branch around the corner from the tiny original – which should ease the long queues for a table. The family-run outfit has steadily earned cult status since launching six years ago, and is the top-rated Chinese restaurant in the under £80-a-head category […]
High-profile chef Victor Garvey has taken an uncharacteristic under-the-radar approach with the opening of his latest restaurant, the Japanese-influenced Materia Prima, in Notting Hill this week. Victor – who wins consistent high praise for the food at his Californian venture Sola in Soho – made headlines with the dramatic closure of his restaurant at the […]
A Sri Lankan restaurant that started out in a converted horsebox launches next week in its first permanent premises – the former Hanoi Bike Shop venue in Glasgow’s West End. Kochchi, named after a Sri Lankan variety of chilli, has been one of the most popular kitchens at the Bonnie and Wild food hall in Edinburgh […]
Leading Edinburgh chef Roberta Hall-McCarron is to close her restaurant Eleanore at the end of next week for a month-long refurb, after which it will open in a more relaxed incarnation as a neighbourhood bistro. The evening tasting menu will be dropped in favour of a two-or-three-course set menu of ‘bistro classics with a modern […]
Sushi master Endo Kazutoshi is reviving his superlative restaurant Endo at the Rotunda for a five-month residency at Annabel’s in Mayfair starting on 20 February, following the fire that destroyed its perch at the top of the former BBC White City TV studios last September. With just 10 guests at each of two sittings on […]
