Acclaimed New York chef Dan Barber has lined up a stellar squad of London restaurant heroes for a month-long residency of his food-waste project wastED on the roof at Selfridges. Gordon Ramsay, Clare Smyth, Pierre Koffmann, Isaac McHale of Clove Club and Brett Graham of the Ledbury are among the leading London-based chefs who will put in a shift […]

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The team behind east London high-flying former pop-up The Clove Club has announced plans to open a “Britalian” restaurant and bar in St John Street near Smithfield meat market next month. Orkney-born chef Isaac McHale said Luca would present British produce “through an Italian lens”, with dishes such as ravioli of grouse with potato and […]

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Skye Gyngell – formerly of the Petersham Nurseries Café – is to open her first solo London venture ‘Spring’ on 14 October. The 100-cover restaurant, set within Somerset House’s ‘New Wing’, will occupy an elegant 18th century dining room that hasn’t been open to the public for 150 years. Attached to the restaurant will be a parlour serving ices […]

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