Irish-born chef Robin Gill is to open a tiny Parisian-style wine bar in Brixton Market Row this month. Bottle & Rye will have just 28 covers and focus on minimal-intervention wines from across Europe, back up by a menu from ex-Lino chef Ben Hughes-Green. “We love how these little gems are embraced by the city,” […]
Salon in Brixton Market, the former pop-up that graduated into an influential wine-focused restaurant over the course of a decade, is to close down permanently in the face of challenging trading conditions. Its founding trio – Nicholas Balfe, Matthew Bushnell and Mark Gurney – went on to open restaurant Levan and the more casual diner Larry’s […]
Pioneering burger restaurant MEATliquor has announced another closure. The group’s Brixton location, on Market Row, shut on January 6, and precedes the demise of the flagship venture on Oxford Street, which is set to pull the plug in late January/early February. “Nearly five years after setting up shop, we’re sad to have to announce MEATliquor […]
From its inauspicious roots as a Brixton Market pizzeria, Franco Manca – as famous for its queues as it is for its sourdough crust – has built an enviable restaurant empire. So enviable in fact that David Page’s Fulham Shore wants to buy it. The restaurant group behind The Real Greek (which saw an uptick in positive […]
The Joint – the pop-up-turned-permanent restaurant famed for its pulled pork burger – has opened a second site. The US-inspired BBQ spot has taken over the Marylebone premises in New Cavendish Street which were previously home to short-lived burger bar SLABS. It appears that this high-end burger restaurant, poorly reviewed by many including the Standard, just wasn’t doing […]
Pavilion, a new restaurant, champagne bar and deli owned by the founder of Foxton’s estate agency, Jon Hunt, opens today (30 May). The kitchen is overseen by Adam Simmonds (most recently of Danesfield House in Marlow) who previously worked under big hitters such as Raymond Blanc and Marco Pierre White, as well as putting in stints at The […]
The whole ‘British pizza’ schtick was hardly an outstanding success for Jamie Oliver’s Union Jack restaurants, but GB Pizza Co seem to have cracked the formula. Founded in Margate this pop-up-to-permanent pizzeria has now opened its second branch in London’s trendy Exmouth Market, offering its homegrown twist on the classic Italian dish. This includes such […]
