Jamie Oliver is preparing for a return to the British restaurant scene – four years after the collapse of his UK business saw the closure of 25 restaurants with 1,000 jobs lost and debts of £83million. His first new venue is scheduled to open this autumn in Covent Garden as part of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s revamped […]
A newly opened Korean barbecue restaurant in Soho is bringing the pyeon beak steambox to London – a three-tiered box made from hinoki wood, a type of cypress. Chungdam has taken over the site formerly occupied by Chinese restaurant YMing in Greek Street, and is named after Cheongdam-dong, an affluent – and foodie – district of Gangnam in […]
Former Typing Room chef Lee Westcott will next week unveil the first of his two restaurants at a new luxury hotel and rewilding scheme at Selsdon on the southern outskirts of London. Vervain, billed as an all-day dining room, opens next Thursday (13 April) at Birch, which has replaced the former Selsdon Park Hotel and […]
Long-heralded Sri Lankan restaurant Rambutan opens today (17 March) on the edge of London’s Borough Market, from chef and food-writer Cynthia Shanmugalingam (above). Rambutan was first announced last summer, when Cynthia introduced the concept with a soft-serve ice cream pop-up featuring such flavours as mango; jaggery; watermelon and hibiscus; and buffalo curd. Her first book, […]
A new Danish steakhouse called KöD – meat in Danish – has opened in the City of London, serving beef from Britain, Uruguay and the US along with Japanese wagyu – all with a signature swoosh of “velvet carrot purée”. Founded in Århus in 2014, KöD now has branches in Copenhagen as well as Oslo and Stavanger […]
A 16-seat restaurant serving a ten-course meal at a single evening sitting will open this autumn in Shoreditch’s Blue Mountain School. Chef Theo Clench (right in photo), formerly of Akoko and Portland, will head the kitchen at Cycene, cooking a seasonal menu influenced by Australasia with an emphasis on seafood. Among the signature dishes he […]
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 […]
Star Portuguese chef Henrique Sá Pessoa, who trained in London almost 30 years ago, makes his return to the capital later this year with the opening of a new high-rise restaurant in the Battersea Power Station development. JOIA, 15th-floor Iberian restaurant with its own bar on the floor below as well as a rooftop bar […]
Korean streetfood specialist Bunsik opens its second London site tomorrow (26 March), with a menu headed by “corn dogs” – sausage and/or cheese on a skewer wrapped in batter and breadcrumbs then deep-fried. The new branch opens on Villiers Street, Embankment, at midday, with freebies to reward the first 50 customers. Corn dogs were apparently invented […]
Famously itchy-footed experimental chef Nuno Mendes returns to his Portuguese roots with his new restaurant in the Fitzrovia foodie enclave of Charlotte Street, which opens on Monday. He says Lisboeta will be “a love letter to Lisbon”, his home city. One of the most eagerly anticipated – not to say hyped – openings in London this year, […]
