Chef Jackson Boxer has stepped in to help veteran Notting Hill cantina Taqueria “get its mojo back” as it enters its third decade. The Westbourne Grove venue will close on Monday next week (23 February) for a brief make-over before reopening on Tuesday 3 March as TAQ. Originally a street stall, Taqueria moved into its […]
Chef Jackson Boxer is to open a new French bistro called Henri in Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel this spring. The new venture is a collaboration with the Paris-based Experimental Group, with whom he opened a highly rated restaurant at Cowley Manor in the Cotswolds last year. He also runs Brunswick House and Orasay in London. […]
StreetSmart, the charity which raises funds to help homeless people, this week launched its annual pre-Christmas campaign asking restaurant diners to add a donation of £1 per table to their bill. More than 450 restaurants have signed up to participate in the scheme, including many of British gastronomy’s most high-profile names. Chef Jackson Boxer, of […]
Chef Andrew Clarke and restaurateur and chef Jackson Boxer are to open their third restaurant together. Orasay will be a 50-cover space in Notting Hill, just over the road from Clare Smyth’s Core. The cuisine will, apparently, be inspired by the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and the name is a playful take on an […]
AA Gill is thoroughly unimpressed by Shaftesbury Avenue’s new Chinese hotpot restaurant Shuang Shuang – an “anxiety-inducing concept” where diners are asked to assemble their own soup from a conveyor belt of ingredients. It’s making The Sunday Times critic nostalgic for the days of turtle soup terrines, Michael Winner, and drinks trolleys… “This is by […]
