Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 28 July 2019. Heritage, London W1 Jay Rayner for The Observer made some sweeping generalisations about Switzerland to start his review (“it’s expensive, tooth-achingly polite, efficient and profoundly committed to dairy fats”) but only to point out that Heritage manages just three out […]
Chef Marcus Rohlen, formerly of Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social and Richard Corrigan’s eponymous Mayfair restaurant and bar, has been appointed head chef at Frenchie. Rohlen, originally from Sweden, will lead the team at Gregory Marchand’s heavily French Covent Garden restaurant, which could do with a boost. Where in previous years reporters urged others to […]
The well regarded Islington pub restaurant The Drapers Arms closed its kitchen on Thursday after temperatures rocketed past 37C. Drapers announced the news on Instagram earlier this week, and said: “Closing the kitchen on Thursday as cannot reasonably ask staff to work in a 40ºC environment. Drinks only, sorry.” The mercury topped 37C on Thursday, […]
The team behind Italian favourites Padella and Trullo look to be opening a new site in Shoreditch. A licence application, proposed under the Padella name, has been submitted to Hackney Council. A notice has been attached to a premises on Phipp Street, as one eagle-eyed diner shared on Twitter. Tim Siadatan and Jordan Frieda opened […]
Tom Brooke, founder of American-style restaurants Red Dog Saloon and Louie’s Hot Chicken, is to open an Indian-inspired BBQ joint in Nottingham. Burra Khana will be centred on small plates, will focus on the street food of Delhi and Jaipur, and will also draw on techniques and flavours from Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, […]
The Dorchester hotel group has appointed Tom Booton as head chef of its famous Grill restaurant. Booton, at just 26, is the youngest chef to hold the position in the restaurant’s 88-year history. Booton has joined from Alyn Williams at the Westbury in Mayfair, where he held the same position, and will be spending the […]
Corbin & King’s Jeremy King has talked a little bit about the group’s new Soho venture, Manzi’s. In an email to industry professionals, the restaurateur said the team is currently “immersed in the design stage of our new venture in Soho – Manzi’s.” The name, King explains, is a tribute to the long lamented Leicester […]
Julie’s restaurant and champagne bar has finally announced a date to reopen, some four years after abruptly closing its doors. The famous celebrity haunt shut to much dismay in 2015, and while the food was never all that great, it was long a favourite with locals and celebs alike – as reporters attested, its “cubbyholes […]
Mexican restaurant Santo Remedio is to launch a chef’s table supper club experience called Mesa Santa, which will take place both upstairs at the London Bridge restaurant and at venues across the UK. The first, on August 9, will be hosted at the Northamptonshire home of food critic William Sitwell. There, chef patron and co-founder […]
Arcade, a new central London dining hall – curiously described, by the founders, as an “all-day food theatre” – will launch on July 22 at London’s iconic Centre Point building at Tottenham Court Road. Arcade is Europe’s biggest dining hall. The 12,500 square foot, Grade II-listed space features six independent ground-floor kitchens, a coffee and […]
