Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 14 July 2019. The Newell, Dorset Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times celebrates the restaurants she calls “quietly wonderful” – not the “flashy and splashy and showy and spendy” places chased down (and sometimes closed down) by food critics and hordes of Insta-tourists, […]
Former Fat Duck chef and sommelier duo Jonny Lake and Isa Bal will open a restaurant and wine bar in Bermondsey this year. Trivet is planned to launch in autumn in the new Snowfields Yard development. The duo have described their venture as an “informal, high-quality dining restaurant utilising the finest ingredients and wines”. Lake, […]
Chris Leach, from Pitt Cue, Sager and Wilde, and Kitty Fisher’s, will join David Carter, chef and founder of Smokestak, are going to run a four-month residency in Mayfair. The chefs will take on the first “residency” at the 10 Heddon Street spot, which was most recently the home of Magpie restaurant. It is not […]
Cyrus Todiwala, the chef behind the “excellent” Café Spice Namasté and Goan-Portuguese restaurant Mr Todiwala’s kitchen, is to launch in Leicester. Tandem will focus on “authentic Indian cuisine” from across the country. Rather than honing in on one region or style, as is increasingly the case in London – see the new, more conceptual restaurants […]
Z He and Alex Peffly, the husband and wife team behind Cantonese steamed bun specialists Bun House and the Jian Bing trading stall Pleasant Lady, are to open Wun’s, a 1960s-style Hong Kong tea room and late night bar. Wun’s will be set across two floors in Soho, and will mimic the communal, open-air cafes […]
Five Guys is lined up three upcoming regional openings, according to Propel hospitality. The US burger brand has been rapidly increasing its UK portfolio over the past few years, and slated to open next are sites in West London, on Portobello Road, as well as Ashford designer outlet in Kent, and in Cathedral Square, Worcester. […]
Kricket, known for its “strong modern twist on Indian flavours and good vibes”, is to welcome five guest chefs at its Television Centre restaurant in West London in September. Chef and co-founder Will Bowlby has announced the likes of Pierre Koffman and Valentine Warner as part of a series to raise money forApne Aap Women’s […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 7 July 2019. Mana, Manchester From the moment the first of 16 courses arrived, Marina O’Loughlin of The Sunday Times was “blown away” by Simon Martin’s cooking at Mana. He cooked at Noma for several years (unlike so many chefs, which, as Marina […]
The West End will see a new “relaxed neighbourhood” restaurant arrive in the form of Bloomsbury Street Kitchen in August this year. An announcement said the venue will “embrace shared dining” and “showcase an exquisite selection of contemporary Mediterranean and Japanese small plates,” which will be “complemented by a diverse variety of wines, sake and […]
After four successful years and more than £152,000 raised, Jason Atherton’s Social Sunday will return this weekend. The dinners, cooked by the likes of Atherton, Claude Bosi, Angela Hartnett and Sat Bains, raise money for Hospitality Action, which supports hospitality workers if they fall on hard times. Atherton, his Social Company brigade and esteemed chefs […]
