An ambitious new restaurant headed by a former River Cafe chef opens in a Grade II listed townhouse opposite the Natural History Museum in South Kensington next week. The Lavery – named after a former resident, Irish-born artist Sir John Lavery – has taken over the premises of the former Cromwell Place café, and will offer […]
The Peat Inn, one of Scotland’s leading restaurants for several decades, is on sale with chef-patron Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife Katherine deciding to move on after 19 years. The 250-year-old inn near St Andrews in Fife wins consistent praise in the Harden’s guide for its ‘old-school class’ and has been a regular on the […]
Pimped-up sandwiches are having a moment, with no fewer than three upmarket venues opening in London in quick succession. First up is Crunch, rhymingly billed as ‘a contemporary hack to a traditional snack’, which has opened in Dean Street, Soho after two years as a stall in Old Spitalfields Market. The ‘hack’ consists of non-sweetened […]
Iconic Southall restaurant Brilliant is to close next month after 50 years, to be replaced by the new Brilliant Gastro in the town’s nearby Green Quarter. The restaurant was founded by Gulu Anand in 1975, becoming a stalwart of the west London suburb’s famous south Asian dining scene, with guests including King Charles. The founder’s […]
Two prominent female chefs announced their resignations this week – Lisa Goodwin-Allen, executive chef at Northcote in Lancashire, and Sally Abé of the Pem in London. Lisa is stepping down after spending 23 years – more than half her life – at Northcote, the Ribble Valley institution where she has also acted as host chef for Obsession, the […]
A flood of new food halls is rising across the country this year, from Newcastle via Manchester and Birmingham – where two halls open in May – to London, where no fewer than three are launching in quick succession this spring. Newcastle’s Freight Island, scheduled to open in the autumn, is billed as the ‘largest single […]
An all-day Venetian-style cafe and art gallery launches tomorrow close to the new museum which opened in Perth last year to house Scotland’s iconic Stone of Scone. Osteria Bau Bau is the culmination of four years of planning by founders Francesca Tata and Neil McCulloch, who met at art college in Dundee. They believe it […]
Pioneering US-style barbecue Bodean’s is relaunching its menu next week, having signed up meat guru Richard Turner as its chef-director. Launched in Soho’s Poland Street 23 years ago by Canadian-born Andre Blais, Bodean’s was an early entrant into the barbecue market and expanded fast, opening offshoots across London, but in recent years it has retracted […]
Tasca, a year-long Iberian-inspired residency from sommelier Sinead Murdoch and chef Josh Dallaway, has opened at new wine bar Cav in Bethnal Green. The couple, who met working together at Sarap Bistro, see the venture as a “love letter” to their travels in Spain, Portugal and the South of France, where they explored the dining […]
Peripatetic wild food restaurant Native has closed after less than a year at its latest location, the Netherwood Estate on the Worcestershire-Herefordshire border, following a failure in its extraction system that “broke the camel’s back“. Chef Ivan Tisdall-Downes (pictured) and his business partner Imogen Davis launched the zero-waste, foraging-based project in 2012, winning widespread acclaim […]
