Napoli on the Road, a west London-based pizzeria founded ten years ago on the back of a three-wheeler Piaggio truck, was crowned world champion at the tenth annual 50 Top Pizza awards in Naples this week – becoming the first UK-based outfit to win the accolade. Founder Michele Pascarella was almost lost for words after picking […]
The hit-making Public House Group opened their latest pub this week – The Horses in Clerkenwell, which comes galloping hard on the heels of The Hart, which opened last year in Marylebone, joining a four-year-old stable that includes The Hero, The Fat Badger and The Pelican. The Horses is primarily a dining venue, with a strong […]
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen next week opens a Mediterranean-style all-day restaurant with a large terrace inspired by ‘Milanese piazzas and Riviera promenades’ that overlooks a landscaped garden, just a couple of minutes’ walk from the hustle of Oxford Street. Pearl, in Mayfair’s Brown Hart Gardens, close to Selfridges, is a standalone venue adjacent to and part […]
Chef and food writer Romy Gill marks her return to frontline hospitality – and her London debut – with the launch next week of Romy Gill at the Pem, where she will present a menu of regional Indian cooking. She ran Romy’s Kitchen in Thornbury, near Bristol in south Gloucester, from 2013-19, and was awarded […]
An ambitious supper-club chef has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £75,000 towards opening a permanent restaurant after cooking 18-course dinners in his parents’ north London kitchen for the past two years. Max Posener trained under Gareth Ward at Ynyshir – his original inspiration to become a chef – and at Cycene in London before launching […]
Chef Tom Sellers is to open five new eating and drinking sites at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, purported to be Britain’s oldest country club and now owned by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in Asia. The luxury venue near Slough – but more importantly for its clientele within easy reach of both Heathrow […]
A new neighbourhood independent restaurant called Vera opened in Glasgow’s Southside this week, serving Mediterranean-influenced modern cooking from chef Zak Young, who has worked in two of the city’s most celebrated kitchens, Cail Bruich and Unalome. Vera, from the Latin for ‘true’, is on Nithsdale Road near Strathbungo, and pitches itself as “a relaxed place […]
Tom Kerridge has reshuffled his central London offer at the grand Corinthia Hotel in Northumberland Avenue off Trafalgar Square, with the opening tomorrow of a new bar called Georgie’s. It is named after the chef’s beloved boxer dog, whose paw print was preserved in cement during building at his Marlow flagship the Hand and Flowers […]
Chef Elliott Kaye will next week launch Marrion’s Bar in Hackney, his follow-up to Norman’s Cafe in Archway, which he ran for five years with Richie Hayes until it closed last summer. The new venue on Morning Lane is Elliott’s first solo project, and he says: “I wanted Marrion’s to be somewhere I’d actually want […]
A new pub opens two minutes’ walk from Bank station in the City next week offering £6 pints of Guinness and lobsters fresh from the display tank. The Albatross has taken an ex-Brown’s – originally the Commonwealth Bank of Australia – on Old Jewry, and is the first pub from Wild Group founders George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya […]
