A Sri Lankan restaurant that started out in a converted horsebox launches next week in its first permanent premises – the former Hanoi Bike Shop venue in Glasgow’s West End. Kochchi, named after a Sri Lankan variety of chilli, has been one of the most popular kitchens at the Bonnie and Wild food hall in Edinburgh […]
Glasgow-based chef-patron Peter McKenna is to close his Finnieston fixture The Gannet at the end of the year, replacing it in early 2026 with a more casual bistro called Eleven Fifty Five, after its address in Argyle Street. The new venture, in partnership with maître d’ Kevin Dow, is pitched as an “upscale but approachable […]
Graeme Cheevers of Glasgow’s highly rated Unalome this week launched his second restaurant – Loma, at Cameron House resort hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond. The move marks Graeme’s return to a venue he knows well from his stint as head chef when the restaurant was run by Martin Wishart more than 10 years […]
Dishoom is on the expansion trail once again, with the launch next week of the first London branch of its Permit Room sub-brand in Notting Hill, followed by the opening of a main Dishoom in Glasgow this summer and a first international foray billed for next year. Until now, Permit Rooms have been confined to […]
Dynamic Glasgow restaurateur Nico Simeone has closed his fish specialist Sole Club to make way for a new pan-Asian concept, Extra_Ordinary, headed by Australian-born chef Tobias ‘Toby’ Fiegel (pictured). Sole Club, which combined experimental seafood cuisine with classic fish ‘n’ chip shop fare, opened in February last year in the Finnieston premises where Simeone founded […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 26th May 2024 The Guardian Brett, Glasgow Grace Dent found “comfort food with the chef’s foot fully on the gas” at this modest-seeming wine bar – the younger sibling of feted Cal Bruich nearby – which “holds a fig leaf […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 28th April 2024 The Financial Times Alberta’s at The Windmill, Brighton Tim Hayward was “blown away” by Scottish chef Alistair Munro’s cooking at a “rackety, seedy Regency locals’ boozer” – a meal which prompted Tim to define an emergent new […]
Far from fading into retirement following the closure earlier this year of Le Gavroche, Michel Roux has two new ventures lined up for the months ahead: a new spot at the Langham hotel, his long-time perch in Portland Place, opening in May, and what is billed as a unique live entertainment restaurant at a historic […]
A glossy Chinese restaurant which justifies dressing up for dinner opens in Glasgow city centre next week. Paul Sloan of the Hunky Dory Group hopes Zhima will “bring to Glasgow what Hakkasan does to London and Tattu does to Edinburgh – an elegant, adventurous dining destination“. The million-pound pound project has been in development for four […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 25 February 2024 ***** The Evening Standard Tashas, Battersea Jimi Famurewa confessed that it took a trip to Sydney in January to convince him of the attractions of the Antipodean brunch. “And now I have fallen pretty hard for Tashas — […]
