After an 11-year run, Josh Katz has closed his flagship restaurant Berber & Q, a North African/Middle Eastern barbecue specialist in a railway arch off the Regent’s Canal in Haggerston, east London. His debut restaurant, it was widely influential and led to his follow-ups Shawarma Bar in Exmouth Market and Carmel in Queen’s Park. Harden’s […]
Chef Gabriel Waterhouse and his wife, designer Patricia Waikamba, are opening a new restaurant next week near Columbia Flower Market in Bethnal Green – less than two months after closing its predecessor nearby. The new incarnation, called simply Waterhouse, is described as “a modern Northumbrian restaurant in London”, reflecting Gabriel’s upbringing in the north of England, […]
Johnny Boy’s, an all-day neighbourhood restaurant serving comfort food inspired by the multicultural communities of Southern Californian, opens today in Stoke Newington. Founder Julian Dennis, known in east London for his Chinese restaurant Facing Heaven and dive bar Easy 8 in London Fields, was born in Los Angeles to a Portuguese mother and Puerto Rican […]
Chef Dara Klein launches her first standalone venue this week, opening Tiella Trattoria & Bar in a traditional mid-Victorian pub near Columbia Road flower market in east London – a follow-up to her extended residency at the Compton Arms in Islington, where Dara’s rustic Italian cooking earned widespread acclaim. She has teamed up for the new […]
Hospitality couple Lidia and Simone Crepaldi will tomorrow launch their first venture together – Italian restaurant Hoax with a ‘secret’ basement bar called The Devil You Know (TDYK) in Dalston. Taking over the original site of Chick ‘n’ Sours on Kingsland Road, Hoax has a semi-open kitchen run by Sardinian-born chef Riccardo Lottero, Simone’s cousin, […]
Ivan Tisdall-Downes, the chef behind several versions of itinerant sustainable restaurant Native, has opened a new venue in London Fields – this time under a different name. Field Notes, close to Mare Street Market, occupies similar culinary territory to Native, with Ivan saying it is “about exploring sustainability as a global conversation. But at its heart, […]
Well-known Hoxton pub the Macbeth is to reopen this month with a Portuguese-inspired menu from chef Jamie Allan, part of the team which revived the Plimsoll and Tollington’s in Finsbury Park. Jamie, who will run the pub with his friend Patrick Nolan, said the Macbeth represents “a beautiful opportunity to work in a part of […]
New-wave Shoreditch wine bar Oranj is moving into larger new premises next week, with an outdoor kitchen and dining terrace. The new venue, in pedestrianised Dray Walk, is five minutes’ walk from the original site in Bacon Street near Brick Lane – which the current Harden’s guide notes is “very buzzy” and “usually packed”, but where […]
Adolfo de Cecco, chef-patron of Hackney superstar Casa Fofò, is to open a neighbourhood restaurant and wine bar in Stoke Newington next week called Bianca’s. Named after his daughter, Bianca’s is expected to follow a similar approach to its big sister, focusing on seasonal British ingredients from small-scale producers, but at a lower price-point. It […]
