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    Nieves Barragan looks to her legacy with new launch
    March 6, 2025March 6, 2025 HardensBytes

    Leading Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho, of Sabor in Mayfair, has unveiled plans to launch a second venue in London with the opening of Legado, meaning ‘legacy’, in Shoreditch High Street this summer. Sabor, which she founded in 2018, has been the Harden’s guide’s top-ranked Spanish restaurant in London for the past four years. It […]

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    Quo Vadis gets a makeover (but the nose stays)
    December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 HardensBytes

    Veteran Soho restaurant Quo Vadis is to double in size following a major refurb in January. Owners the Hart Brothers say the work will provide a “grander and more spacious restaurant” befitting the cooking of acclaimed chef-partner Jeremy Lee (pictured). Having opened in 1926, Quo Vadis is rare among older restaurants in that it trades […]

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    New Barrafina gives Hart Bros a full house in Borough
    July 22, 2022 HardensBytes

    The Hart Brothers will open a fifth branch of their flagship Barrafina tapas bar next Saturday in Borough Yards, the extension of the Borough Market food hub developed under the redbrick Victorian railway arches. The new Barrafina, which glories in the address of “2 Dirty Lane”, constitutes the final link in the Harts’ Borough Yards […]

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    Barrafina comes to Borough
    October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 HardensBytes

    The Hart Brothers will open a branch of their smash-hit Barrafina tapas bars along with two other venues in the new Borough Yards development adjacent to Borough Market early next year. It will be the first foray south of the Thames for Barrafina, the highest-rated Hispanic in the most recent Harden’s survey and the only […]

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    The Harts Group to begin opening from July 4 – and Barrafina will take bookings
    June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 HardensBytes

    Restaurants across the country will reopen from 4 July after the government finally announced a further implementation of lockdown easing. It means scores of businesses will be allowed to host diners once more, though will be required to complete risk assessments and factor in one metre-plus social distancing measures to ensure customers are as safe […]

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    Sabor could open a second site in Soho
    September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 HardensBytes

    Mayfair hotspot Sabor is looking to open a second restaurant in Soho, reports say. Planning documents submitted to Westminster Council name Sabor and JKS Restaurants in a proposed opening on Lexington Street. Former Barrafina head chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho and José Etura set up Sabor in February 2018 and there might only have been vague […]

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    Coal Drops Yard – Opens 26 Oct
    October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 HardensBytes

    London’s latest restaurant and shopping ‘quarter’ opens today. Coal Drops Yard is the superb new addition to King’s Cross, just around the corner from Granary Square. It is a beautiful restoration of Victorian brick sheds built in the 1850s to transfer coal from rail to road. On Wednesday of this week we dropped in for […]

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    Corbin & King to open Soutine early next year – and reveal a dash of new information
    September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 HardensBytes

    Corbin & King will open a new restaurant in St John’s Wood, London, in the new year. Soutine will be in keeping with the area’s strong heritage, reports say, with King previously suggesting it would be a little ‘Colbert meets Fischer’s’. Still, we don’t know too much about the restaurant yet. Unless there’s to be […]

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    London’s Top 10 Spanish restaurants
    March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 HardensBytes

    José SE1 “I’d travel here from Spain for the pluma Iberica!”– José Pizarro’s original Bermondsey tapas bar “somehow has the edge over the competition”serving some of “the best tapas you will find”… “if you can get in (it’s always heaving)”.   Barrafina (group) “The wait can sometimes be twice the time spent at the counter”, […]

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    Scott Hallsworth is back with Pan-Asian inspired Freak Scene
    March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 HardensBytes

    This storming little Pan-Asian pop-up from Scott Hallsworth (founder of Kurobuta) and Phar Shaweewan finds a permanent home in Soho’s Frith Street, in what was once the original Barrafina premises. Freak Scene fuses Japanese, Singaporean and Malay cooking, as well as adding some South American inspiration in the form of Miso-grilled black cod tacos with […]

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