Silva, a new ‘day-to-night’ restaurant, opened yesterday in a Mayfair mews from first-time restaurateur Daria Grebenyuk. She recruited experienced hands led by head chef Slawomir Sawicki (ex-of Eric Chavot, Galvin at La Chapelle, Arts Club) and former Sir Terence Conran partner Peter Prescott to bring the project to fruition. Silva – from the Latin word for […]
Prolific Mayfair-based restaurateur Samyukta Nair is to open her first Italian restaurant next week – Nipotina, an all-day family-oriented neighbourhood venue in South Audley Street. Turin-born chef Somaia Hammad (right in photograph) will lead the kitchen, while Luca Dusi (left), of Passione Vino in Shoreditch, has assembled a wine list featuring small and artisanal producers from […]
Former Galvin at Windows head chef Joo Won is to open his first restaurant, Cálong, in Stoke Newington, combining classical French techniques, seasonal British produce and his Korean culinary heritage. Cálong is taking over the premises in Church Street occupied for nine years by Rubedo, a European bistro and natural wine bar that signs off […]
Mexican chef Santiago Lastra launches his follow-up to smash-hit Kol next week. Fonda will open on Thursday (3 October) in Mayfair’s Heddon Street, opposite heavyweights Sabor and Ambassadors Clubhouse. Named after a Mexican style of family-run local restaurants, Fonda will be more accessibly priced than ‘fine-dining’ Kol, with meals structured around the ‘coma’, a traditional […]
One of London’s most heavily trailed openings of the year has been postponed indefinitely with the news this week that Brad Carter is no longer involved with the Undercroft project in Mayfair. Brad closed his hit Birmingham restaurant Carter’s of Mosley last year, and in April announced that he would open Undercroft in the crypt […]
A new Brazilian restaurant has opened next door to the Brazilian consulate in Vere Street, just off Oxford Street. Maroto has picked up the baton from Bossa, a highly touted outfit which closed down on the site after barely six months at the beginning of the year. Maroto was the name of the bar that opened […]
Jason Atherton has embarked on a dizzying reorganisation of his London restaurants that will see the closure of three ventures and the opening of at least five (depending on how you count them). The latest opening to be announced is Mary’s, a grill-led restaurant that will take over the Mayfair premises of Pollen Street Social […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 30th June 2024 Evening Standard Akira Back, Mayfair Jimi Famurewa gasped when he stepped inside the extravagant new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair in Hanover Square. Sadly its headline restaurant, from Seoul-born, Las Vegas-based celeb chef Akira Back, had the opposite […]
JKS Restaurants is to open a large and ambitious new Indian restaurant – their first in five years – in Mayfair this September. Ambassadors Clubhouse is taking over the Heddon Street premises occupied by Moroccan restaurant Momo until 2020, and will feature a ‘maximalist central bar with a gold dome’ in the main dining room. The 140-cover […]
Dubai-based Chinese restaurant Shanghai Me is to take over the Galvin brothers’ former Windows perch on the 28th storey of the Park Lane Hilton, as London’s oldest skyscraper hotel reshuffles its dining offer. In the second part of the reshuffle, Amsterdam steakhouse group Mr Porter is moving in to the lower ground floor site occupied […]
