A new restaurant in Fitzrovia turns the focus on the cooking of Occitania, with dishes inspired by France’s Mediterranean coast, from the bouillabaisse of Marseilles and the rice of the Carmargue to Pâtes au Pistou from Nice. Maset, on Chiltern Street – which takes its name from vineyard houses in the region – is from Melody […]
Romanian-born chef Alex Craciun, who made his name at Jason Atherton’s Sosharu, has returned to London after nine years to open a Japanese-inspired restaurant called Aces Foodcraft in Fitzrovia. The restaurant, which opens tomorrow (1 November), operates on two levels: during the daytime it is relatively casual, with a seasonal à la carte menu, daily […]
An ambitious Chilean restaurant with a menu overseen by Santiago-based chef Carolina Bazán (pictured) opens tomorrow in Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia. Mareida is the brainchild of first-time restaurateur Prenay Agarwal, a Mumbai-born former financier who acquired a taste for Chilean cuisine while living in Santiago. Hailed as South America’s top female chef by the World’s […]
A high-end Chinese restaurant featuring the cuisines of Canton and Hubei with a signature luxury set menu at £388 a head is launching this month in Fitzrovia. 3 Gorges has taken over the former Trattoria Mondello in Goodge Street, across the road from founder Li Zhang’s Sichuan-inspired restaurant Sanxia Renjia, which also has branches in […]
Diners were disappointed to learn of two premature endings this week, with the closure of London risotto specialist All’Onda from first-time restaurateur Cordula Schluz (pictured) and the departure of veteran chef Simon Bonwick after 18 months at the Dew Drop Inn in Berkshire. All’Onda (meaning ‘on the wave’), in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, only lasted for […]
A new Alsatian-inspired all-day bakery, wine bar and restaurant from debut restaurateurs Solynka Dumas and Julian Oschmann (pictured) has opened in Fitzrovia’s foodie Charlotte Street. They have hired Holly Hayes, a former 40 Maltby Street sous chef, to run the kitchen, while sommelier Honey Spencer of Sune in Hackney has put together a list of […]
An ambitious restaurant devoted to risotto is to open in Fitzrovia this spring. All’Onda, meaning ‘on the wave’, is from first-time restaurateur Cordula Schulz, who has recruited chef Andrea Granzarolo and general manager Marco Montalbano (respectively from Hélène Darroze and Muse by Tom Aikens) for the project. Hailing from Lombardy, the birthplace of risotto, Andrea […]
Chef Tom Cenci is to revamp the public-facing neighbourhood restaurant on the ground floor of fashionable Fitzrovia private membership club Mortimer House next month. Mortimer House Kitchen will draw on Tom’s family summers spent in Piedmont and on the Amalfi coast, with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and family-style dining. The menu starts with a […]
Kinkally, a new restaurant and bar inspired by the food of Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains, opens in Fitzrovia’s foodie enclave of Charlotte Street next Wednesday (6 December). Named after ‘khinkali’ – large meat-filled twisted dumplings from Georgia that are massively popular throughout the former Soviet region – the venture is a first restaurant from […]
