Pillar Hall, the vast new three-part restaurant and entertainment complex from Des Gunewardena’s D3 Collective, opens next week as the six-year, £1.4 billion revamp of West London’s Olympia nears completion. The centrepiece is Idalia, a 300-seater all-day modern British restaurant inspired by country house style, led by executive chef Samantha Williams and pastry chef Lorena […]
Long-running Italian restaurant Sale e Pepe is launching its second venue next week – a seafood specialist at The Langham hotel in Portland Place, just off Oxford Circus. Sale e Pepe Mare has taken over the hotel’s main restaurant space, which operated as Roux at the Landau until 2023; that was followed by a French restaurant […]
A new restaurant in Fitzrovia turns the focus on the cooking of Occitania, with dishes inspired by France’s Mediterranean coast, from the bouillabaisse of Marseilles and the rice of the Carmargue to Pâtes au Pistou from Nice. Maset, on Chiltern Street – which takes its name from vineyard houses in the region – is from Melody […]
A Vietnamese restaurant has opened in Covent Garden inspired by the late Nguyễn Thị Thanh (pictured) – the Ho Chi Minh City ‘Lunch Lady’ brought to culinary fame by the New York chef-turned-writer Anthony Bourdain. Cô Thành, on the Henrietta Street site formerly occupied by Frenchie, has been launched by Hong Kong chef Brian Woo, […]
A daytime café/deli that morphs by night into a wine bar/bistro opens today a few doors along from The Knave of Clubs and One Club Row in Shoreditch High Street. Clara’s is from the team behind The Farrier pub in Camden Market, which a closed a year ago. Head chef Elie Fourcroy, formerly of Artusi, […]
A venue billed as the first new pub on the King’s Road in Chelsea for 100 years and named after a famous British naval victory 220 years ago has opened this week. The Trafalgar has taken over the ground floor and basement of a Grade II-listed Edwardian bank building, owned by the Cadogan Estate and […]
Coalhouse, a ‘smokehouse and taproom’ inspired by the fire pits of the American Deep South and the fiery flavours of Mexico, opens tonight in the sedate Regency spa town of Cheltenham. Created by chef Lewis Spencer, the founder of east London barbecue venue Hotbox, Coalhouse is co-owned by local restaurant powerhouse Jay Rahman of Prithvi, […]
Chef-restaurateur Stevie Parle (right in photo) will next week open his second London restaurant in quick succession – Motorino, a “big Italian” with 150 covers in Fitzrovia, this time with Luke Ahearne (left), the chef behind the successful opening of Lita in Marylebone last year. With its mix of carefully sourced ingredients and slick interior […]
Former Fat Duck group chef Matt Larcombe will tomorrow open his Wild Restaurant in Berkhamsted near Hemel Hempstead, offering a hyper-seasonal menu that celebrates regenerative farming and zero-waste principles. With its own farm close by, Wild will operate on a ‘closed-loop’ system in which produce is grown from seed and leftovers return from the kitchen […]
Leading Spanish chef Nieves Barragán this week opened Legado in Shoreditch – her highly anticipated follow-up to Sabor in Mayfair. Expectations are high for the new venture: Sabor, which opened in 2018, has registered extraordinary scores of 5-5-5 in the annual Harden’s guide – the highest possible ratings for food, service and ambience – for three consecutive years. […]
