Highly regarded Edinburgh chef Stuart Ralston is to open an ambitious seafood restaurant in the Royal Terrace premises of the late Paul Kitching’s 21212, which closed down earlier this year following the latter’s sudden death. Paul’s widow, Katie O’Brien, said she and her team were devastated by Paul’s passing. She continues to operate the venue’s […]
Two new Italian restaurants have opened this month blending traditional Italian cuisine with external ingredients and influences – Terra Moderna in London (pictured) and Assaggini in Edinburgh. Terra Moderna, in Belsize Park, north London, gains Antipodean credentials from its Australian founder, coffee entrepreneur Jeffrey Young of the Allegra Group, whose café England’s Lane is next […]
Landmark Edinburgh restaurant 21212 is to close down at the end of next week, following the sudden death in December of chef-patron Paul Kitching at the age of 61. His partner, Katie O’Brien, has announced that the last service will be on Saturday 1st April. She wrote: “The passing of Paul has devastated all the […]
A chef and a sommelier with impressive pedigrees have teamed up to open an ambitious ‘chef’s table’ restaurant in Edinburgh this spring. Eòrna – barley in Gaelic – will have no staff, with the founding pair providing a “pared-back, intimate, yet sophisticated dining experience”. Chef Brian Grigor (left in photo) ran the kitchen of Number One at […]
Chef Dean Banks has opened a new casual seafood bar and restaurant in Edinburgh, which he will run alongside the august Pompadour (pictured above) at the city’s Waldorf Astoria hotel and Haar in St Andrew’s. Dulse is in the Queensferry Street premises occupied for 18 years by Fred Birkmiller’s L’Escargot Blanc, which did not reopen […]
A pop-up African supper club in Edinburgh has found a permanent home in the city’s New Town, as the continent’s cuisine makes increasing progress across the UK. Farin Road, from chef Tunde Abifarin, is taking a residency at the cafe Tani Modi on Hanover Street, operating initially on Friday and Saturday evenings from next month. […]
Star Edinburgh chef Tom Kitchin is opening a new restaurant, Kora, on the Bruntsfield site formerly occupied by his bistro Southside Scran, which closed down in 2020 after barely a year’s operation – a victim of both flooding and the pandemic. Named after the classical goddess of spring and agriculture, Kora opens appropriately this spring and […]
Tom Kitchin, the chef behind Leith’s “outstanding” dining destination The Kitchin, has announced plans to open a jauntily-named new joint – The Bonnie Badger, a restaurant-with-rooms in the village of Gullane on Scotland’s East coast. Just a stone’s throw from Muirfield golf course, and a 30-minute drive from Edinburgh, the hotel – which dates back to […]
Alain Roux, chef-patron of Bray’s “glorious” Waterside Inn, and his father, the legendary chef and restaurateur Michel Roux, are set to launch a new restaurant in Edinburgh at The Balmoral during May. Alain will take up the position of signature chef at the brasserie and bar, which replaces Hadrian’s Brasserie and The Balmoral Bar. He currently retains […]
Londoners who haven’t had the opportunity to sample Edinburgh’s Norn yet will be pleased to hear the restaurant is coming to you – with a residency at Marylebone’s Carousel from 13-24 March. If you’re not familiar with Scott Smith’s Leith dining room then allow us to acquaint you. On the former site of the Plumed […]
