Hong Kong-based restaurateur David Yeo is adding two Italian venues to his growing Aqua London portfolio this year – the informal Luci, which opened in Covent Garden last month, followed by Azzurra, a more upscale seafood specialist in Chelsea. Aqua already has six restaurants in London, covering cuisines from East Asia to Spain – Hutong and […]
Brad Carter has closed his highly regarded Birmingham restaurant Carters of Moseley and will reopen it at a new site early next year. The restaurant is currently operating as a summer residency in a greenhouse belong to specialist grower Westlands UK, in the Vale of Evesham. Brad has confirmed that the residency will be extended […]
A ramen bar from a self-taught Indian chef based in Dubai is the surprise arrival in the roster of new outlets announced for the reopening of Harrods Food Hall next month. New Delhi-born Neha Mishra was a successful video producer when she became obsessed with the notion of cooking ramen 10 years ago – in […]
Here’s a quick Bank Holiday round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 27th August 2023. ***** The Guardian “They’ve already won my heart.” Grace Dent visited Goodge Street, that “hotbed of smart, impressive places” to review 64 Goodge Street, the new addition from “Woodhead Restaurant Group, which runs The Quality […]
The Vinoteca wine bar group was bought out of administration this week, removing the threat of closure that had hung over the five-strong operation. The new owners are Breal Capital, an investment firm which is understood to have paid more than £300,000 for the acquisition. Founded by financiers Brent Osborne and Alan McLaren in 2014, […]
The India Club in the Strand is to close down on 17 September, after apparently losing a six-year battle against redevelopment. The freeholders, Marston Properties, first submitted plans to develop the site as a luxury hotel in 2017. The Club – which these days is not restricted to members – raised funds to fight for its survival, […]
A new restaurant serving ‘wild’ meat opens this week on the Knepp estate near Horsham in West Sussex – England’s largest rewilding project, where herds of cattle, pigs, ponies and deer roam free. Wilding Kitchen Restaurant is set in a converted 18th-century barn next to a new courtyard garden, where produce is grown using regenerative […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 20th August 2023. * The Guardian “This is why we put on shoes and go out to eat.” Grace Dent reviewed Mountain, the new Tomos Parry restaurant in Soho; as with his other openings, this has created “a gasping hubbub […]
Le Gavroche, arguably the most important restaurant in Britain of modern times, is to close down next January after 56 years. The announcement was made by Michel Roux Jr (pictured in 1989 with his father, Albert), who took over as chef-patron in 1991 (coinciding almost exactly with the launch of our first edition, Harden’s London […]
