A Californian-style taco outfit based in southeast London opens its first permanent venue today, after four years of pop-ups, residencies and market stalls. Taca Tacos, from founder Thorne Addyman, is in Arch 12 at Deptford Market Yard. Thorne launched the venture in 2018 following a research trip to the US West Coast and Mexico, initially […]
A tiny, 10-seater Japanese restaurant where husband and wife chefs serve a no-choice “omakase” menu opens in Mayfair tomorrow. Roji is the first venture from the couple, Tomoko Hasegawa and Tamas Naszai, who met while working at another Japanese restaurant, Tokemiete. Roji means alley, appropriately for a restaurant that is tucked away in a courtyard […]
Frieze art fair co-founder Matthew Slotover will open an art-themed boutique hotel and restaurant next month a few minutes’ walk from the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. Fort Road Hotel launches on Monday 1 August after a four-year rebuild, which included adding an additional top floor. There are 14 guest bedrooms, and the ground floor […]
Richmond will see two new riverside restaurants opening in the coming months, as central London-based hospitality brands target the city’s wealthier suburbs for expansion. Aussie brunch specialist Daisy Green is the first out of the traps, launching Peggy Jean (pictured) in a restored barge on 27 July, followed by Mayfair celebrity-magnet fish specialist Scott’s in […]
Vinoteca opens its first wine bar outside London in Birmingham’s new Paradise development on Monday. Close to the Town Hall in the city centre, it will be Brum’s biggest wine bar, accommodating 150 guests on two levels with 40 more on an outdoor terrace. The first Vinoteca opened in Farringdon in 2005, and there are […]
Raymond Blanc’s pub-brasserie group is to be spun out into a national chain under new owners who plan to open as many as 50 new branches in the next few years. The French-born chef is understood to have sold his minority stake, but will remain involved in the business. Alchemy Partners, a London-based private equity […]
Mano Mayfair, a new restaurant offering “the vibrancy of Latin America with the unbridled glamour of late 1950s St Tropez”, is scheduled to open in Heddon Street before Christmas, although the return of the pandemic restrictions may have thrown the exact date into doubt. The concept comes from entrepreneur Alexis Colette and Romain Fargette, who […]
Sake No Hana, the smart Japanese restaurant occupying an unusual Grade II-listed Modernist building in St James’s, has been quietly closed down by its owners, the Hakkasan group, bringing to an end its 13-year run. Opened in 2008 by Jamie Barber of Mayfair’s Hush and his business partner Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard, […]
The famous Star at Harome in North Yorkshire was “reduced to ashes” after flames swept through its thatched roof on Wednesday night. The fire broke out soon after 10pm in the fourteenth-century building and was attended by nine fire engines, but there was little firefighters could do to prevent the flames spreading through much of […]
Former Apprentice contestant April Jackson has closed down her six-year-old Brixton café and rum bar Three Little Birds, replacing it with Wood & Water, which opens this evening (25 November) offering a more sophisticated menu of “British food with Jamaican soul”. This translates as modern British dishes punctuated with Jamaican touches – jerk glaze on […]
