Chinese/Texan smokehouse Hon’s BBQ opens in Hackney Wick today, bringing founder Man Hon Luk’s slow-cooked meat with East Asian flavours to a permanent home with the help of a crowdfunding campaign that raised £36,000. Hong Kong-born Hon road-tested his barbecue skills with a two-year residency at nearby hangout All My Friends under the name Uncle […]
The duo behind British-Afghan barbecue Cue Point this week opened their first permanent site – in North Kensington, close to the project’s origins as a pop-in west London 10 years ago. Founders Joshua Moroney and Mursal Saiq have teamed up with the Garden Bar pub near Latimer Road tube station to create The Garden Bar Grill and […]
A new Thai restaurant taking inspiration from global barbecue techniques opens next week in Manchester. Bangkok Diners Club, from Ben and Bo Humphries, has taken over the upstairs dining room at the Edinburgh Castle, a historic pub in Ancoats that was revived to wide acclaim in 2019. The new kitchen replaces a well-received operation serving […]
