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London is to get yet another destination for pasta-lovers and value hounds. Bancone, one of the capital’s favourite fiercely new-age joints, is planning to open a second site in Soho. The first, in Covent Garden, was presented the award for Top Cheap Eat at Harden’s London Restaurant Awards 2019 earlier this month. Its impressively good […]
The Olive Branch, one of the UK’s first trendsetting gastropubs, is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. The Olive Branch, in Clipsham, Rutland – Britain’s smallest county – was founded by Ben Jones, Sean Hope and Marcus Welford in November 1999 and is still seen as one of the country’s best pub restaurants. It has […]
Damian Clisby, former chef director of Petersham Nurseries, and Nick Gibson, owner of Islington gastropub The Drapers Arms, will open their first joint venture, Emile, in Shoreditch. The restaurant and wine bar will open at 26 Curtain Road for six months from on October 10, with Mediterranean-inspired food and a refined wine list. The 40-cover […]
The Gladwin brothers, the team behind Rabbit, The Shed, and Nutbourne, based in Chelsea, Notting Hill, and Battersea respectively, will open their first restaurant in Soho. Called Sussex after their family farm and vineyard, the restaurant “will be a celebration of the Sussex countryside captured within an eclectic mix of classic and progressive cooking.” Ingredients […]
Harden’s (slightly delayed) weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 22 September 2019. Lagom at Hackney Church Brew Co, London E8 Searching for “good food, fairly priced” instead of the “false promise” of restaurants where the main courses start at £25, Jay Rayner for The Observer headed […]
Sticks’n’Sushi is to open a new restaurant and bar at 40 Beak Street, Soho, on October 9. Despite so much talk of doom and gloom in the restaurant industry currently, the debut demonstrates the potential for continued expansion by chains with a good story to tell. The Danish-based sushi and yakitori group, which give Japanese […]
Stevie Parle will open a second Pastaio at Westfield London in November. The restaurateur’s first, in Soho, hasn’t wowed everyone but has always offered great “value for money”, and many will be pleased to have a second “pasta pit-stop” while shopping out west. The new 145-seat restaurant will benefit from two open kitchens (one dedicated […]
Oxford Brookes University has confirmed its Brookes Restaurant will close in 2020. News that the restaurant, which provided a place for its prestigious hospitality school students to train, was met with widespread consternation earlier this year, and a petition to ensure it remained open was signed by thousands. However, staff at the university said the […]
Iconic London restaurant St John, which introduced an unsuspecting world to the gospel of ‘nose-to-tail dining’, is to open in Los Angeles, USA, in October. Hitherto a profound statement of UK culinary identity, it will be interesting to see whether it becomes a branch of the native Californian food culture, or is rather a Brit […]
Jason Atherton launched his new Mayfair restaurant, The Betterment, on Thursday. It is, coincidentally, across the square from Gordon Ramsay’s new Lucky Cat. Ramsay was Atherton’s boss for ten years, of course. Atherton’s project forms an integral part of the latest instalment in Hilton’s growing collection of luxury hotels, Hilton LXR Hotels & Resorts. It […]
