We’ve been busy finalising the London guide for 2023, so this week’s Review of the Reviews is catching you up on two weeks of reviews! We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week… This is what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the TWO weeks ending 21 August 2022. ***** […]
Sunda Kitchen, a new Southeast Asian restaurant and cocktail bar, opened in Covent Garden this week from Jamie Younger, co-owner of Thai food pioneer the Begging Bowl in Peckham. Occupying the former site of Wahlburgers in James Street, Sunda has a menu of snacks and sharing plates including Thai KFC cauliflower with tamarind mayo, Malaysian […]
Asma Khan has relaunched her Darjeeling Express as a pop-up in a Kensington pub while she looks for a new permanent site, having closed last month after less than two years in Covent Garden. The restaurant opened this week in its temporary siding at the Pembroke, almost next door to the Troubadour in the Old […]
The Glasshouse in Kew, one of London’s highest-rating neighbourhood restaurants of the past two decades, is to close down next month. There was no immediate explanation of the move, which was announced with a terse message on the restaurant’s website. It read: “It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of The Glasshouse […]
An Indian food truck in a small Cheshire town is to spawn three permanent restaurants after appearing on the Hairy Bikers’ TV Christmas Special. Sunitha Southern, owner of the Indian Goat in Bollington, near Macclesfield, is planning to open branches in Bollington, Manchester and Northeast England – and she’s set her sights on bagging a Michelin […]
A “rock star” line-up of professionals from some of London’s top restaurants have banded together for the launch of a new British bistro in Notting Hill. Dorian is scheduled to open October in the former premises of Raoul in Talbot Road. Founder Chris D’Sylva, the owner of two high-profile local food shops, Notting Hill Fish […]
Arguably the most ambitious New Zealand eating and drinking venue to open in Europe launches tomorrow, Saturday 20 August, in Manchester’s £750 million Circle Square redevelopment, off Oxford Street. Tahi, meaning ‘one’ or ‘together’ in the Māori language, is a 102-seater all-day restaurant and bakery that showcases Kiwi specialities from coffee, pastries and brunch plates […]
A pair of Brighton-based chefs with origins on different continents will this month launch a small restaurant that explores the Columbian exchange of spices and flavours between the ‘Old World’ of Europe and Asia and the ‘New World’ of the Americas. Kanthi Kiran Thamma (left in photo) from Hyderabad in south India and Diego Ricaurte […]
A new steakhouse, Block Soho, opens in St Anne’s Court, Soho next week on the site formerly occupied by another steakhouse, Zelman Meats, which closed here in March last year. Block Soho is the second launch of the summer from Roger Payne’s Enhanced Hospitality group, following the opening last month of the Maddox Tavern in […]
Adam Reid – whose eponymous restaurant ‘at The French’ in Manchester’s Midland Hotel is probably the grandest restaurant in the city – will throw a light on humbler tastes with his latest project, The Butty Shop, which opens next Friday, 26 August, in the smart New Century Hall food court. The Butty Shop will celebrate […]
