Food and spice company Arabica have traded in their market stall to launch a bricks and mortar restaurant, opening on 23 June. Founder James Walters started out selling a small range of mezze at Borough Market 14 years ago, but he says the menu at his new 80-cover establishment will be more extensive. Serving lunch, dinner […]
To celebrate the launch of its first restaurant, crowd-funded takeaway concept Pizza Rossa will give away 300 free pizza slices this Friday (6 June). Its signature ‘al taglio’ (square) pizzas will be served from the company’s new home in Leadenhall Market in the City.The pizza place plans to open two more sites in the City, […]
The Editors’ review of Bilbao Berria This Basque-style tapas joint is a welcome break from the usually grimly impersonal restaurants around Haymarket. Grace Dent falls in love with Georgian food at Marani ‘I don’t even like mascarpone that much, or mille feuille, but this is making me quite… emotional’. Vienna waltzes into Marylebone, […]
Here’s a mouth-watering event with an eye-watering price tag. Rosemary Shrager – a one-time Pierre Koffman protégée-turned-celebrity-chef, by way of the ITV jungle – is hosting a week-long ‘celebration of food and wine’ at Château Lou Casteou on the Côte d’Azur, costing £5,650 per couple. Mind you, that does include a six-night stay at the luxury residence, […]
Parisian bistro, Les Gourmets des Ternes, has opened its first overseas outpost in Maida Vale. The establishment will be run by Maximilien Marie, grandson to Francis Marie who opened the celeb-friendly Paris original in 1962. The Formosa Street counterpart has exactly the same décor and menu with a focus on meat, sourced from the family […]
Pavilion, a new restaurant, champagne bar and deli owned by the founder of Foxton’s estate agency, Jon Hunt, opens today (30 May). The kitchen is overseen by Adam Simmonds (most recently of Danesfield House in Marlow) who previously worked under big hitters such as Raymond Blanc and Marco Pierre White, as well as putting in stints at The […]
Ramsons was never your ordinary provincial restaurant. As recently as 2011, the North Western legend was rated 73rd best restaurant in the UK in the Sunday Times Food List (which is powered by the Harden’s survey). Now, the establishment has been reborn as The Venetian House, after proprietor Chris Johnson (who retired on 3 May […]
The Editors’ review of The New Angel Celestial choirs break out for us as John Burton-Race returns to the London dining scene. Zoe Williams wants to buy the Holborn Dining Room kitchen a timer Everything the Telegraph reviewer eats is overcooked, from lobster to liver. Ash Mair finally opens Bilbao Berria The MasterChef […]
Australian chef Ash Mair (winner of 2011 MasterChef Professionals) has finally opened his long-awaited tapas restaurant in (Lower) Regent Street. The Basque-inspired Bilbao Berria is a genuine Spanish export, an offshoot of a chain with two sites already in Bilbao, two in Barcelona and one in Ibiza. This is the chain’s first international outpost and will be […]
Just in time for summer, this 14th century Thames-side Chiswick boozer reopens tomorrow (24 May), after an extensive refurb. The City Barge wants to be ‘the ultimate Thames-side pub’ – with a reclaimed Victorian bar, open fires, examples of rare bird taxidermy, private dining room and outside seating by the water, it may just pull […]
