Hot Brazilian chef Alberto Landgraf this week launched his first restaurant in London – Bossa, appropriately next door to the Brazilian consulate in Vere Street, off Oxford Street in Marylebone. Alberto, who has German and Japanese ancestry, has risen to fame since opening Oteque in Rio de Janeiro five years ago; it is now listed on […]
Mano Mayfair, billed as a “swanky Brazilian fusion bar and restaurant“, returns to a permanent address in Mill Street next Friday (31 March), having occupied a perch in nearby Heddon Street last year. Brazilian TV chef Rafa Gomes, who has restaurants in Rio and Paris, is behind the menu, taking over from Luciana Berry, who […]
Italian-Brazilian chef Rafael Cagali, whose Da Terra in Bethnal Green is the top-ranking London restaurant in the current Harden’s guide, is to open a second venture at the same address. Elis will take over the site of the Corner Room restaurant in the Town Hall Hotel, in Bethnal Green’s beautifully restored former town hall, which […]
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 […]
Japanese/Brazilian fusion spot Yoobi is to open its second site in Soho’s Lexington Street this May. The original, which opened on the same street in 2012, was considered to be London’s first temakeria. Like its sister, the new Yoobi will be a casual pitstop serving a small menu of freshly made temaki (Japanese hand rolls), that come wrapped […]
Jamie Barber, the man behind Brazilian BBQ group Cabana and Hush Brasseries (pictured), has secured a £5 million cash injection to help expand both businesses. Cabana, which already has five London sites, will get the lion’s share (£3m) to help it grow nationally, with three further openings by the end of the year, including a site […]
Fancy some Brazilian food during this World Cup? Harden’s has teamed up with Luiz Hara (AKA The London Foodie), a Brazilian-born blogger, to bring you a list of the best places to get a taste of the real thing without leaving London. Although it does seem that there’s still scope for some really consistent Brazilian […]
