New dining pub the Kerfield Arms opens in Camberwell next week, from the team behind The Baring in Islington. Formerly known as the Crooked Well, it is on the corner of Grove Lane and Kerfield Crescent. Expectations are high following the success of The Baring. Opening in 2022, it won immediate praise in the annual […]
Upscale Japanese omakase restaurant Hannah, in the former County Hall building on the South Bank of the Thames, has relaunched as Donabe Hannah – London’s first Japanese claypot cooking specialist – with a new wood-fire concept to follow in Stratford, East London. Hannah won increasing recognition over a seven-year run for its Kyoto-style tasting menus under former […]
Jason Atherton’s former Mayfair flagship, Pollen Street Social, reopened without advance publicity this week as Motcomb’s Tavern, the latest incarnation of the long-running establishment that closed in Belgravia earlier this year. The move ends Jason’s association with the site where he launched his stellar career as a restaurateur in his own right, after leaving Gordon […]
Chef Sally Abé is joining The Bull in Charlbury, the Cotswolds pub from the dynamic Public House group, operators of The Hero in Maida Vale and The Pelican, Canteen and The Fat Badger in Notting Hill. Sally left the Pem last month, having established her reputation as head chef at Brett Graham’s Fulham pub the […]
The first phase of the Cordia Collective, a new rural hospitality project focused on sustainability from chef Chantelle Nicholson, was unveiled this week with the launch of two cafes on a country estate in West Sussex. Baked by Cordia comprises the cafes Gloriette, in a summer house, and Ginkgo, at the entrance to the restored […]
Chef Matt Gillan has confirmed the closure of Heritage, his crowd-funded restaurant-with-rooms in the West Sussex village of Slaugham – and apologised for his “radio silence” in recent months. Acknowledging that suppliers and customers with outstanding vouchers had been unable to contact him, he said “I intend on making this right, however best I can.” He […]
Liberty is the latest landmark West End department store to unveil an ambitious restaurant, with the launch next week of Seventy Five as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the store’s 1875 opening. The second-floor venue will be run in partnership with Marlow-based catering company Goose + Berry, making their restaurant debut, and will […]
The couple behind Bristol neighbourhood restaurant COR are launching their second venture in the city this week – an Italian spot called Ragù, in Wapping Wharf. Mark and Karen Chapman opened COR in North Street in October 2022, winning praise in this year’s Harden’s guide as a “stunning neighbourhood restaurant” serving Mediterranean-influenced food with “shades of […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 30th March 2025 London Standard Tasca at Câv, Bethnal Green David Ellis hailed the “beautiful food and fair prices” at a new arrival in a “cool” neighbourhood, which landed in the very week that chancellor Rachel Reeves’s “thuggish budget […]
Peckham’s popular 081 Pizzeria is expanding, with its first offshoot opening next week in Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch. The new branch is considerably larger than the 20-seater in Peckham Rye, which wins praise in the 2025 Harden’s guide for its “superb selection of funky Neapolitan pizzas (from 72-hour fermented dough)” and additional dishes including arancini, […]
