Chef Tony Parkin is to open his first solo restaurant next week – Daise, in Oxton on the Wirral, in premises occupied for almost two decades by Marc Wilkinson’s acclaimed Fraiche. Tony has teamed up with Andrew Sheridan’s Open Restaurant group, based across the Mersey in Liverpool, which has run the site under the name Oxa […]
Hugely popular Cantonese canteen Dim Sum Duck in King’s Cross has opened a second branch around the corner from the tiny original – which should ease the long queues for a table. The family-run outfit has steadily earned cult status since launching six years ago, and is the top-rated Chinese restaurant in the under £80-a-head category […]
High-profile chef Victor Garvey has taken an uncharacteristic under-the-radar approach with the opening of his latest restaurant, the Japanese-influenced Materia Prima, in Notting Hill this week. Victor – who wins consistent high praise for the food at his Californian venture Sola in Soho – made headlines with the dramatic closure of his restaurant at the […]
A Sri Lankan restaurant that started out in a converted horsebox launches next week in its first permanent premises – the former Hanoi Bike Shop venue in Glasgow’s West End. Kochchi, named after a Sri Lankan variety of chilli, has been one of the most popular kitchens at the Bonnie and Wild food hall in Edinburgh […]
Leading Edinburgh chef Roberta Hall-McCarron is to close her restaurant Eleanore at the end of next week for a month-long refurb, after which it will open in a more relaxed incarnation as a neighbourhood bistro. The evening tasting menu will be dropped in favour of a two-or-three-course set menu of ‘bistro classics with a modern […]
Sushi master Endo Kazutoshi is reviving his superlative restaurant Endo at the Rotunda for a five-month residency at Annabel’s in Mayfair starting on 20 February, following the fire that destroyed its perch at the top of the former BBC White City TV studios last September. With just 10 guests at each of two sittings on […]
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons has revealed Raymond Blanc’s successor with the appointment of multi-starred French chef Arnaud Donckele as its new culinary director. Le Manoir is currently closed for 18 months of renovation, so diners will have to wait until summer 2027 to taste any differences. Arnaud, 48, already runs two of France’s most highly […]
Seasonal British restaurant Nest in Shoreditch is to close down after nine years in the face of an unsustainable financial climate, running its final service on Saturday 28 March. Serving a set menu based around a single theme, Nest achieved its best-ever rating in the new 2026 Harden’s guide, earning a maximum score of 5/5 […]
Legendary baker Richard Hart is returning to his native London next week to open the new Claridge’s Bakery, behind the Mayfair hotel in Brook’s Mews. Now based in Mexico City, Richard began his career as a chef before discovering the allure of sourdough baking and rising to become head baker at Tartine in San Francisco […]
DakaDaka, an ambitious Georgian restaurant from a newly formed hospitality outfit, opens tomorrow in Mayfair’s Heddon Street foodie enclave, tucked away off Regent Street. Taking over the site formerly occupied by hit restaurants Manteca and Fallow, DakaDaka is the debut London project from Berkeley Square Hospitality, headed by Georgians Giorgi Mindiashvili and chef patron Mitz […]
