A natural wine bar in Shoreditch with food by guest chefs will mark its official launch next week, following a fortnight’s soft opening. Oranj occupies a 2,000 sq ft Victorian warehouse in Bacon Street, and will serve Belgian beers alongside low-intervention wines. Founder Jasper Delamothe, hitherto best-known as a bar designer, launched Oranj as a […]
An ambitious new restaurant combining Japanese izakaya-style dining with low-intervention wines and their equivalent unfiltered nigori (cloudy) sake has opened in Embassy Gardens, the development adjacent to the new US Embassy in Nine Elms which has transformed the area between Battersea and Vauxhall. Evernight is the first restaurant from Singaporean chef Lynus Lim, formerly of […]
This summer is a season of mixed emotions for the natural wine lovers of east London, as bar/restaurant Cadet opens on Newington Green just as Peg on Morning Lane in Hackney closes. Cadet is a combined project from natural wine importers Francis Roberts and Tom Beattie (far left and far right in photo), paté-maker extraordinaire […]
Irish-born chef Robin Gill is to open a tiny Parisian-style wine bar in Brixton Market Row this month. Bottle & Rye will have just 28 covers and focus on minimal-intervention wines from across Europe, back up by a menu from ex-Lino chef Ben Hughes-Green. “We love how these little gems are embraced by the city,” […]
Goat on the Roof, a tapas and wine bar championing organic seasonal produce from local suppliers alongside natural and sustainable wines, will open in Newbury, Berkshire, next Tuesday, 3 May. The new venture is owned and operated by Patrick Vaughan-Fowler, who ran the George & Dragon in nearby Hurstbourne Tarrant for seven years, and head […]
