Former Raby Hunt chef James Close opens a purpose-built restaurant called Atlas at Rockliffe Hall near Darlington next week, with the declared ambition to establish it as “one of the world’s best restaurants“. Atlas is one of six dining and bar options at Rockliffe Hall, a luxury resort hotel which has undergone a multi-million-pound transformation […]
Gordon Ramsay is to open a self-named venue in a prominent site on London’s South Bank next Tuesday (1 September), having taken over the restaurant in Sea Containers luxury hotel. It is his first new launch since the widely publicised opening of his 100th restaurant earlier this summer – but has attracted surprisingly little attention. Sea […]
A new boutique hotel opens in Mayfair next week called The Shepherd, with a modern all-day brasserie called Fayre. The 82-room hotel replaces the former Park Lane Mews Hotel, in a refurbished block of townhouses above a ‘secret wartime bunker’ from the 1940s, near cute Shepherd Market. Fayre offers a menu of classic European dishes using […]
Dining with a view in central London receives a boost next week with the launch of Arcus at the revamped Imperial Hotel in Russell Square – pitched as the first rooftop restaurant and bar in Bloomsbury. Set on the tenth floor, Arcus has almost 360-degree views over some of London’s most famous sights, including St Paul’s, […]
A Mediterranean-inspired restaurant enticing long-lunchers launched this week close to Marble Arch in Marylebone – Mour, an offshoot from the Leonard Hotel next door. Set inside a smartly remodelled Georgian townhouse with its own entrance on Seymour Street, the 60-seater restaurant includes a sun-lit courtyard open all year round thanks to its retractable roof – providing a […]
The ground-floor restaurant at Soho House founder Nick Jones’s new-build luxury hotel St Clement opened formally this week, overlooking the Thames at Temple. Café Clement offers an all-day Franco-Italian menu, from a kitchen run by ex-River Cafe chef Danny Bohan. It has a riverside terrace as well as garden seating. Ahead of its opening to […]
New York’s Caffè Dante has become a permanent fixture in Claridge’s as Dante Mayfair, following a successful residency last summer which was extended to the end of the year. It serves an all-day Italian-American menu including grills, seafood and cocktails in what was latterly the more formal Claridge’s Restaurant, operated most famously in recent times […]
Calabrian-born chef Francesco Mazzei this week opened his latest restaurant – Mezzogiorno in the Corinthia hotel, just off Trafalgar Square. Francesco made his name in London with L’Anima, which opened on the edge of the City in 2008. He followed up by launching Radici, Sartoria and Fiume with D&D London (now Evolv), and ran a six-month […]
US-based Korean celebrity chef Akira Back launches a new restaurant in a Mayfair luxury hotel next week – six months after making his London debut just a few minutes’ walk away in another hotel. Lilli by Akira Back, which opens on Wednesday 2 April, is an all-day restaurant at the new Montcalm Mayfair, a new 150-room […]
Seafood specialist chef Tom Brown will unveil a new restaurant at The Capital hotel in Knightsbridge later this year, returning to the kitchen where he made his London debut a decade ago as head chef for Nathan Outlaw. Originally from Cornwall, Tom ran the restaurant for two years before leaving to set up his own […]
