There were a few fraught days this week for fans of Whitechapel’s Tayyabs as the Pakistani restaurant was closed by immigration officials. “It’s a crime against chops”, the Twittersphere declared on 29 August when a closure notice was posted in the famous East End venue’s window. But fear not! Tayyabs is open again and its […]
A sister bar and restaurant to Hackney hangout Wringer & Mangle will open a stone’s throw from Old Spitalfields Market on 11 September. The original launched two years ago in London Fields in a disused former laundry. Wringer & Mangle Spitalfields is spread over two floors offering dining upstairs, a lunchtime deli counter and cocktails […]
The Cinnamon Collection – which includes Vivek Singh’s “inspirational” nouvelle Indian The Cinnamon Club (set in the “classy” surrounds of Westminster Library) as well as the chef’s more casual ventures, Cinnamon Kitchen, Cinnamon Soho and Cinnamon Bazaar – has chosen Oxford for its first restaurant outside of London. Cinnamon Kitchen Oxford, opening this October in […]
L’Autre Pied, “the more casual baby sister of Pied à Terre”, will close its doors for good on 9 September. To thank diners for their custom the restaurant will offer two special menus at lunch and dinner – five course for just £31, or enjoy the full chef’s tasting menu for just £51*. Owner David Moore […]
Richard Corrigan has one in his kitchen at Corrigan’s in Mayfair, and now you can too. Harrison Ovens are handmade, solid fuel ovens, lovingly sculpted by designer and engineer Daniel Thumwood in his Kent workshop. The design and development of this state-of-the-art oven was three years in the making, but the company is now taking […]
Jason Atherton has announced plans to relocate Sosharu to either Mayfair or Soho in hopes of increasing lunch trade. The izakaya-style restaurant is currently housed at 64 Turnmill Street in Clerkenwell (formerly Turnmills nightclub) but the chef and restaurateur says the concept is not working at the site. Atherton told Caterer that although Sosharu is […]
Clare Smyth just opened her much-anticipated solo restaurant Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill this week, which got us thinking about what else is in our restaurant launch calendar. Here’s 10 up-and-comers we’re excited to welcome to London’s dining scene this year… Coal Rooms SE15 Opening: mid-August 2017 Meat and fish are grilled in […]
We didn’t think a plum Fitzrovia site like the one Dabbous inhabited until recently would sit vacant for long, and we were right. Plans are already afoot to turn the “loft-style”, industrial-chic restaurant into a rustic French bistro (quite a departure!), thanks to former co-owner and manager of Pied à Terre, Mathieu Germond. Ollie Dabbous and […]
Get your game face on! It’s time once again for The Glorious Grouse Race at the City’s estimable home of “very good game” – The Jugged Hare. Taking place on the Glorious Twelfth (that’s Saturday 12 August for those who don’t religiously follow gaming seasons) the race aims to get the season’s grouse from field […]
The Observer’s Jay Rayner doesn’t so much review Plaquemine Lock in Islington as write it a love letter. The Cajun-Creole-influenced pub comes to us courtesy of Jacob Kenedy (of Bocca di Lupo fame)… “A celebration of the food of the Louisiana basin… The walls are painted a hot, sultry yellow overlaid by naive murals of life on the […]
