Prolific chef Nick Molyviatis (right in picture) unveils his debut Greek taverna Zylia in London this week as the headline act at Covent Garden’s Arcade food hall – one of three new food halls opening this month as operators gear up for the summer. South of the Thames, Manchester’s Freight Island launched a southern outpost […]
A successful London supper club is to open its first permanent venue next week with the May 6 launch of All Roads in Brixton. Chefs Malika Green and Paschelle Brown have tested All Roads in a series of sold-out evenings over the past three years, assembling a distinctive menu which draws on their Caribbean heritage and British, European and […]
A smart new northern Chinese restaurant called Mulan Noodle with an open kitchen producing hand-pulled noodles has opened on Acre Lane, between Clapham and Brixton in South London. Mulan also offers live traditional Chinese music on Friday and Saturday nights, featuring instruments including a 21-string zither called the guzheng and the pipa, a four-stringed lute. […]
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 […]
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 […]
While the Haggerston original is closed for a bit of sprucing-up (it reopens in June) Carl Clarke is bringing his “crunchy-fried, tender, perfectly cooked chicken” and “accoutrements to die for” to Brixton for one month only. The Chick ‘n’ Sours residency kicks-off tomorrow (Thursday 10 May) and finishes on Sunday 3 June. Carl and his business partner David Wolanksi […]
Pop Brixton – the birth place of several London dining scene hits including Kricket – has today (31 January) announced the arrival of its newest vendor. Venezuelan street food vendor Petare will settle into its first permanent arepa bar at Pop Brixton on 16 February, following the departure of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. Petare will serve […]
To celebrate the fifth birthday of Brixton’s Salon, chef-patron Nicholas Balfe welcomes five of London’s hottest chefs and closest friends to the kitchen to create a one-off celebratory feast on Sunday 28 January. The stellar line-up sees Lee Tiernan from Black Axe Mangal, Josh Katz of Berber & Q, John Chantarasak from som saa, Silo’s Dougie McMaster, […]
London’s appetite for stoking ‘cues and smoking meats remains undiminished by time or the increasing abundance of BBQ joints in the capital. Just this week Neil Rankin announced temper City, and the last 12 months have seen the launch of MeatUp in Wandsworth, temper Soho, The Stoke House at Victoria’s Nova development, Texas Joe’s Slow […]
