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 […]
London’s first new West End theatre for 50 years opens tomorrow (15 October), which should increase footfall in the centre of the city still suffering from the ravages of the pandemic. The Soho Place theatre – or @sohoplace as owners Nimax rather irritatingly prefer it to be known – will have a 70-cover restaurant called Stars, with […]
Sparrow Italia, the spinoff of a large and glitzy Los Angeles restaurant, alights in Mayfair next week when it opens its doors on Tuesday 18 October in the Avery Row site formerly occupied by Mykonos-themed Onima. Sparrow was created last year by AJ McCloud, executive chef of hospitality company Noble 33. Born in Boston and […]
Indian restaurant Mathura in the Old Westminster Fire Station reopens today (11 October) under a new name as Yaatra – less than a year after its launch. The venue in Greycoat Place served its final meals as Mathura on Saturday night. Mathura was billed as high-profile chef Atul Kochhar’s most ambitious venture yet when it […]
A new street-food venue hosting a rotating line-up of vendors using locally sourced ingredients has opened in Nottingham’s ‘Creative Quarter’. Bustler Market can accommodate 250 diners inside with another 100 outside, and follows its debut as a monthly event in Derby. Set in newly renovated Avenue E of Sneinton Market Avenues, the Nottingham venue operates […]
Des Gunewardina (left in photo), half of the D&D London operation that took over Conran Restaurants in a 2006 management buy-out, has left the company “to pursue other ventures”, days before it opens its 41st venue, Orelle in Birmingham. His co-founder David Loewi, the other D who served as deputy chairman and chief operating officer, […]
Ambitious new restaurant St Barts opens today near Smithfield market, on the edge of the City of London. It is the third venue from three friends who have progressed from pop-ups to the tiny Nest in Hackney and the slightly larger Fenn in Fulham – both of which won rave reviews and high ratings for their […]
Gareth Ward of Welsh powerhouse Ynyshir is planning to open not one, but two new venues in the nearby market town of Machynlleth. The first will be an intimate wine bar/restaurant named Gwen in honour of his mother, which he hopes to follow up with a sourdough pizzeria next door. Gwen will take over the […]
The century-old Paris caviar house Petrossian is to open its first London deli and restaurant in South Kensington in November. The business prepared the way for its UK expansion by opening a processing laboratory in Chessington last year. Armenian brothers Melkoum and Mouchegh Petrossian founded the business in Paris in 1920, and prospered through their […]
