The fine dining powerhouse that is Martin Wishart will expand his Caledonian empire this November with the opening of his fourth restaurant, at Malmaison Glasgow, housed in a former church in the city’s ‘Merchant City’. The acclaimed chef regularly wins praise from our reporters for his “faultless” cooking at Cameron House Hotel in Loch Lomond, […]
Ex-Caprice group supremo Des McDonald has announced his long-awaited sequel to Islington’s popular Fish and Chip Shop. The eat-in and takeaway restaurant’s second site will open on 15 October in Dashwood House, Old Broad Street, in the City. For those who want a sneak peak there will be a 50 per cent off food soft launch […]
Soho noodle spot Tonkotsu, which opened a second outpost in Haggerston last year, is on the march again. The ramen bar will launch a new site in the heart of Selfridges on Friday 10 October. The menu features chilli chicken ramen alongside edamame beans, pickled cucumber and gyoza. Other noodle bowls include the eponymous Tonkotsu, made […]
The glitzy San Carlo empire continues to grow, with a new Cicchetti outpost now open in Covent Garden This is the chain’s second London site with a Venetian small plates formula – similar to the one on offer at its buzzy, if tightly-packed, site near Piccadilly Circus. The parent San Carlo group, which launched in […]
Burger joint Haché will launch its fifth London site this Christmas, with a 70-cover operation in Balham. The small group – which outstrips its larger rivals for quality, according to our annual survey – already has sites in Camden (pictured), Chelsea, Clapham and Shoreditch. Haché’s latest restaurant will occupy the former home of Meze Kitchen and will […]
Gordon Ramsay will launch his first ‘heart-of-the-West-End’ operation, Heddon Street Kitchen, on 10 November. Modelled on City outpost Bread Street Kitchen – not, it must be said, much favoured by Harden’s reporters – it will be located on the former site of a Living Room bar and restaurant, just off Regent Street. Heddon Street, the Gordon […]
Finally, a report that’s topped the ‘rumours and hearsay’ section on our Coming Soon page since February has been verified. Yotam Ottolenghi is definitely to open a City-fringe outpost of his Ottolenghi cafés. This will be the restaurateur’s fifth café/deli, with sites already in Islington, Notting Hill, Kensington and Knightsbridge, as well as his Nopi […]
The first review of Tredwell’s is in and it aint good Marcus Wareing’s latest venture isn’t incompetent, it’s just cynical, says the Standard’s David Sexton. Complete overhaul at the Compleat Angler Atul Kochhar, of Mayfair’s Benares, takes over the Riverside restaurant (formerly Aubergine). Grace Dent finds rather delicate portions at Kirazu Smaller, fiddly […]
Marlow’s once-celebrated Compleat Angler hotel is to launch a new restaurant. And it’s Indian. The chef is Atul Kochhar, of Mayfair’s Benares – one of the Indian chefs credited with elevating the food of the subcontinent to true fine dining status. He will take over the former Riverside restaurant which until last year traded as Aubergine. Aubergine’s less formal […]
