The family behind longstanding Kensington Italian restaurant Il Portico has launched a new venture almost next door, focusing on the food of southwest France and the Pays Basque. La Palombe, which opened this week opposite the Design Museum, has taken over the site of Pino, an Italian enoteca also owned by the Chiavarini family, which […]
Pearly Queen, a new oyster bar and restaurant, opens tomorrow (11 November) in Shoreditch from Tom Brown, the chef behind Cornerstone in Hackney and a familiar face from television. The 60-cover venue will have an upstairs bar with counter seating, while downstairs offers a more secluded setting with banquettes. Tom has teamed up with Max […]
Jeremy King, the doyen of London restaurateurs, is to revive the legendary Simpson’s in the Strand next year as the third step in his audacious return to the industry – a year after his bitter exit from Corbin & King, the company he built over more than 20 years. Established in 1828, Simpson’s was – in […]
Fair Shot, the Covent Garden social enterprise coffee shop that helps young adults with learning difficulties, has geared up for the Christmas season with the offer of five hampers full of purpose as well as treats. Set in the new The Yards development, it is also perfectly positioned to rescue weary West End Christmas shoppers […]
Amongst restaurants charging over £100 per head, above-inflation restaurant price hikes of 10.7% in London and 14.7% outside London are swelling a new tier of hyper-luxurious restaurants, increasingly out of reach even of relatively affluent diners out. That’s the conclusion of the new edition of Harden’s London Restaurants 2024 (published this week), as supplemented by […]
Former Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston exec chef Ashley Palmer-Watts has emerged as the mystery third man behind new Soho pub The Devonshire, which opens today. The long-planned venture close to Piccadilly Circus is on a prominent corner of Denham Street, originally a pub from 1793 and more recently a Jamie’s Italian. It is […]
A new restaurant-with-rooms headed by Le Gavroche-trained chef Grant Jones has opened in the South Downs National Park. The White Horse, a former pub in Graffham, is close to Cowdray, Goodwood and Petworth in West Sussex. With a 38-cover dining area, private dining room for 10, garden with outdoor kitchen for the summer and six […]
Former Royal Navy chef Lee Calver and his partner Chloe Lillicrap have opened a ‘relaxed fine-dining’ restaurant in Plymouth. The restaurant, Thirty One, has taken over the site of the well-known Rock Salt Cafe and Brasserie, which closed last year. Lee spent seven years in the Navy and cooked his way through upmarket hotel kitchens […]
Veteran Holland Park restaurant Julie’s, which closed down a year ago, is to be brought back to life next year as a neighbourhood brasserie. The new owner is Cordon Bleu-trained Tara MacBain, who lives nearby and is a former regular. Julie’s was famous as a louche hotspot in the Seventies, drawing a celebrity clientele from […]
A new competitively priced fish restaurant in Hammersmith could be the first of several across London if it is well received. Faber is the culmination of an East End lockdown seafood project from Matt Ward and Anthony Pender. The new restaurant takes its name from Zeus Faber, the Latin for John Dory, and its menu […]
