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Michelin-starred Bonhams is to close on December 19: the victim of a change of direction by the famous auction house’s new private equity owners. Head chef Theo Clench confirmed the Mayfair spot, housed at the rear of the famous London sales room, would no longer be a fixture in an Instagram post this week. Bonhams […]
The Little Chartroom, Edinburgh Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times warily reviewed “small neighbourhood bistro” The Little Chartroom – it’s just the sort of place she’d hate to slate. Luckily, with all credit to chef Roberta Hall and her husband, Shaun McCarron, she didn’t have to. “Exciting soup” to start (“two words I didn’t think […]
Not content with three new restaurants in the buzzing Coal Drops Yard, the Hart brothers’ Barrafina team will be launching another in 2019. Parrillan will be a casual terrace bar and grill – a partially covered space with room for 100 diners. The menu will be meat, fish, and seafood-led, with an emphasis on foods cooked […]
Dandy, formerly a cafe in a shopping container in London Fields, and then a bricks and mortar restaurant in Stoke Newington, is looking to return, this time to Maltby Street. Those behind the cafe and restaurant have not long been crowdfunding for the new launch and have already amassed 65 per cent of the £75,000 […]
A new wine and tapas restaurant opened on Wednesday (November 28) in Clerkenwell. Le Cellar, on St John Street, is the work of former wine buyer at Club and Cellar Gascon, Anthonin Charlier, and entrepreneur Simon Maniora. The bar opened for soft launch on Wednesday and is, apparently, a passion project of Charlier and Maniora. The […]
Michael Caines has been revealed as the latest tenant to join a new multi-million pound development on Exmouth waterfront in Devon. Caines, who grew up in Exeter and is currently based at nearby Lympstone Manor, will be opening a restaurant and bar in 2019. The celebrated chef has won plaudits aplenty at his rural Devon […]
Rusk & Rusk, the Glasgow-based restaurant team behind The Butchershop Bar & Grill, Hutchesons City Grill, and The Spanish Butcher, have announced its latest venture: ‘So L.A.’ Situated in the city centre, Rusk & Rusk said the new all-day venue is “inspired by the vibrancy and diversity of the West Coast’s drinking and dining scene.” It […]
Two new Thai restaurants, split over two floors but under the same ownership, will open at the former Jane Tira on Brewer Street in Soho this December. Wild Rice and Mamasan, from debutante restaurateurs Pan Serirak and Mike Asavarut, are set to “reinvent Thai food”, according to an announcement. On the ground floor will be Wild […]
Grace Dent for The Guardian travelled down to Penzance to visit the Mexico Inn, a “fun pub for families”, whose name “is perhaps unhelpful if you stop by hoping for enchiladas and tequila” – it’s a traditional Cornish pub run by an ex-Gurnard’s Head couple who have clearly set up “the type of intensely relaxed, […]
Tom Kitchin and team will today open Southside Scran, a new restaurant in Edinburgh. Southside Scran appears a more relaxed alternative to Kitchin’s “outstanding” fine dining flagship, though will stay true to the chef’s commitment to Scottish produce and seasonal cooking. The restaurant’s focal point will be a rotisserie grill, upon which great hunks of […]
