Chef/entrepreneur Gary Usher of Cheshire-based Elite Bistros is launching another crowdfunding campaign next week – after admitting defeat in his most ambitious fundraiser yet, an attempt to sell shares in the company to help bankroll a suite of projects. Gary will return to familiar – and highly successful – ground in next week’s new launch, aimed at raising […]
Chef Henry Harris is reviving his much-missed French restaurant Racine, seven years after it closed in Knightsbridge. The new Bouchon Racine opens in November upstairs at the Three Compasses pub in Cowcross Street, Farringdon. Henry has joined forces with former Goodman and Rockfish director Dave Strauss in the new project, which will consist of a […]
Spurred on by Tottenham’s dearth of good local restaurants, former Quality Chop House staffer Genevieve Sparrow (left in picture), who has lived in the North London area for several years, is opening a new neighbourhood spot on West Green Road next week. Pasero, which started out as a supper club, will launch on Thursday (27 […]
An upmarket Armenian restaurant is set to launch in Mayfair later this month. Lusin, meaning ‘moon’, opens its doors in Hay Hill on 31 October and will accommodate up to 100 diners on two floors. The restaurant originated in Riyadh in 2011, and now has three further branches in Saudi Arabia; this will be its […]
Vegan pasta concept Pastan is scheduled to open its first branch in central Manchester by the end of this month – on the Cross Street site of vegan restaurant Vertigo, which closed down in March. Pastan began life as a lockdown delivery project from Dean Fawcett and Jerome Ibanez, formerly operations director at Bristol-based healthy fast-food […]
Luke Findlay is launching a second branch of his ‘traditionally inauthentic’ ramen concept Supa Ya today, in Peckham’s Rye Lane. The former Berber & Q head chef developed the idea as a supper club in his Hackney flat, mixing Japanese ramen with classic British and European flavours, before road-testing it as a pop-up and opening […]
Blackburn’s Adam and Drew Jones, the brothers behind the Manchester-based Tattu group, are planning to launch a modern ‘Greek fusion’ restaurant called Fenix in the northwest capital’s central Enterprise City area next year. The pair came to prominence with the opening of Tattu – a ‘big night out’ operation inspired by a combination of body art […]
Our weekly summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 16 October 2022. ***** The Evening Standard “Unquestionably, one of my openings of the year.” Jimi Famurewa visited Speedboat Bar, the “latest Southeast Asian-inspired collaboration between chef-grower Luke Farrell and hospitality juggernaut JKS”. “It is an adult […]
Pip Lacey (pictured above with with business partner Gordy McIntyre) is to open a spinoff from her debut restaurant Hicce in an Islington pub. The Hicce Hart launches next month in premises formerly occupied by Day & Night on the Penton Street corner of Chapel Market. Lacey, who trained under Angela Hartnett and became head […]
A new upmarket Japanese restaurant has opened in the middle of Newcastle, following a £600,000 refurbishment. Butakun, which means ‘Master Pig’, is next door to the landmark Hotspur pub on Percy Street – and is Tyneside’s second Japanese opening in a matter of weeks following Miso in Ouseburn. Robert Lao, Chin Teow and Charles Tang (left to […]
