Beaconsfield boutique hotel Crazy Bear has opened a new British-focused restaurant called Fable from chef Pete Gray, formerly of Heston Blumenthal’s Hind’s Head in Bray. Fable takes the place of BEAR by Carlo Scotto, a radical 14-seater chef’s table concept that survived only five months from its launch last November. The new restaurant signals a […]
An upmarket steakhouse called Lucky Grill opens this week from the Wild Group in Kensington, replacing Greek restaurant Krokodilos that lasted just over a year at the site in Lancer Square, off Church Street. The move follows a similar switch last year by Wild Group when Fantomas in King’s Road, Chelsea, was replaced by the […]
Former Fat Duck chef Nick Rudge this week opened his second restaurant, called The Nest, in the historic town of Conwy on the north Wales coast. It follows The Jackdaw, whose ambitious tasting menu is described in the 2026 Harden’s guide as “Welsh cuisine at its best“. Nick, who was born across the river in […]
A restaurant on a remote Welsh eco retreat is opening an outpost in the heart of the Big Smoke next week. Bert’s has taken over part of the well-known Brackenbury Wine Rooms in Hammersmith, which closed down 18 months ago, and will be an all-day small-plates spot featuring produce from Wales. Founder Ali Paice (pictured) and […]
Rules restaurant in Covent Garden has been donated to the National Trust to protect it from the threat of developers – news that was reported this week as far away as the New York Times. Founded by Thomas Rule as an oyster bar in 1798, Rules is widely recognised as the oldest restaurant in Britain – a […]
An ambitious new restaurant called Calluna opened this week at Saltmoore hotel and ‘wellness resort’ near Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast. The restaurant serves a 10-course tasting menu to a maximum of 24 diners each evening, with a focus on hyper-seasonal food from the immediate surroundings and coastline. Dishes from the opening menu include […]
Colourful chef-patron Paul Clerehugh has moved his entire operation to a vacant pub nearby, following a disastrous fire that has closed his well-known music pub The Crooked Billet near Henley on Thames until next autumn at the earliest. The July blaze started in the beer cellar, destroying the kitchen and much of the interior and […]
Senegalese chef Khadim Mane has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £50,000 towards finding permanent premises for his restaurant Little Baobab following the sudden closure in July of its host, the Africa Centre in Southwark. Self-taught chef Khadim has developed Little Baobab over 10 years, initially as a pop-up project then as a stall at […]
Fast-moving chef Abbie Hendren has opened her debut restaurant in Kew, having moved on from Sally Abé’s well-regarded Teal in Hackney, where she was head chef at its launch in March. She has joined Trindle Stores, a two-year-old family-run grocery and coffee shop in Kew Village, the cluster of small shops around Kew Gardens station, […]
New week sees the opening of a trio of statement Italian restaurants in London – two offering roof-top dining (one each to the east and west of the capital) and one that is simply BIG. First to open on Monday (12 October) is Torino, on Paddington Square outside the station, with a bakery on the […]
