Classic Chelsea brasserie Le Colombier has announced it will cease trading at the end of the year, in a week which witnessed the closure of Pearly Queen in Shoreditch, Koyn in Mayfair and Café Below in the City. Lyon’s seafood specialist in Crouch End will also serve its final guests tomorrow (4 October) after six […]
Edinburgh chef/restaurateur Stuart Ralston will next week launch a Parisian-style wine bar called Vinette in Broughton Street on the edge of the capital city’s New Town. It is his first venture since the September closure of his flagship Aizle, whose name is preserved in Stuart’s newly branded Aizle Hospitality Group. Vinette, which he is opening […]
Chef-patron Robin Gill is to open a new all-day cafe and aperitivo spot called Bar Brasso next door to his flagship restaurant Darby’s, near the new US Embassy in Nine Elms. The space has been operated until recently as Darby’s Next Door, and will offer pastries and coffee in the morning, bigger dishes at lunchtime […]
Anglo-Italian chef Angela Hartnett opens her latest venture today on the top floor of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Cicoria, a bar and restaurant inspired by Turin, is open to the general public as well as ROH ticket-holders. The restaurant will serve lunch and dinner, with the rooftop bar offering panoramic views from […]
A lavish Maltese-owned Japanese restaurant has opened in a Grade II-listed former bank in Marylebone. Converted at a reputed cost of £15million, it features a cocktail bar in what was the underground safety deposit vault. Aki – from ‘akitsu’, an old Japanese word for dragonfly – is a short walk from Oxford Circus in Cavendish Square. […]
Influential Liverpool chef Paul Askew and his son Harry have found a permanent home for Barnacle, their ‘Scouse brasserie’ – in a grand Grade II-listed building formerly occupied by the Royal School for the Blind in the city’s Georgian quarter. Named after Paul’s seafaring father, Captain ‘Barnacle Bill’ Askew, the restaurant champions produce grown on […]
Two London institutions combine next week with the opening of a new café from the St John stable at the London Review Bookshop, around the corner from the British Museum in Bloomsbury. Launching on Wednesday 1st October, the new venture replaces the London Review Cake Shop that has been sorely missed by regulars since closing […]
Former El Bulli chef Rob Roy Cameron next week launches a Basque-inspired restaurant in Soho called Alta, after northern Spain’s Alta Navarra region. Rob spent 10 years working in Spain and was Albert Adria’s right-hand man for the opening of 41 Degrees – the offshoot of restaurant Tickets – and later at Hoja Santa, both […]
Kudu, Richoux and Chick’n’Sours all reappeared this week at unfamiliar addresses as London restaurateurs reshuffled their packs for the winter. Kudu, until recently a ‘collective’ of four venues in southeast London from Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams (pictured), has moved to a prominent corner site opposite La Fromagerie in Marylebone – marking a big shift from […]
The fast-expanding Public House Group soft-launched its latest London pub this week – The Hart in Marylebone, behind the Wallace Collection and next door to the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse. Known as The Flowerhouse for the past four years, The Hart has three storeys with a bar at ground-floor level leading up to a restaurant on […]
