Footballer-turned-entrepreneur Gary Neville (left in picture) has signed chef Niall Keating (right) to open a new restaurant at the Stock Exchange boutique hotel in Manchester that he co-owns with Ryan Giggs. Called Tender, it will be the third attempt to occupy the impressively domed dining room since the hotel launched in 2019. Its predecessor, the […]
A new restaurant opens in North Yorkshire next month inspired by both Sir Winston Churchill and the great French chef Auguste Escoffier. Chartwell will launch on 8 May following a £3 million investment at Aldwark Manor Estate, a luxury hotel and golf resort 15 miles from York. Former Fat Duck, Midsummer House and Gravetye Manor […]
Chef Anthony Demetre is opening a new bistro in the former bar of his Pall Mall restaurant Wild Honey, in the heart of London’s West End. Billed as the main restaurant’s ‘little sister’, Bistrot at Wild Honey is inspired by the Parisian bistronomy movement, which promises a cheaper and more casual alternative to fine dining. […]
Puro restaurant in Clevedon, Somerset, is relaunching as an ambitious destination restaurant with MasterChef the Professionals runner-up Tommy Thorn on board as co-owner. Originally launched as a neighbourhood spot in 2017, Puro closed down in April last year as a result of the industry’s staffing crisis, before reopening earlier this year. Founders Dom and Alex […]
Markus Thesleff is on a roll. “We’ve opened three restaurants in three months,” he says. “London’s smallest, London’s biggest and London’s oldest” – respectively Juno, the six-seater omakase upstairs from Los Mochis in Notting Hill; Los Mochis City, a vast new operation accommodating 200, with a rooftop terrace above Broadgate Circle; and Sale e Pepe, […]
‘Mostly vegan’ chef Rishim Sachdeva is to open a new café at Somerset House on the Strand next month, following his launch last year of restaurant Tendril in Mayfair. His new ‘plant-first’ all-day venture, Café Petiole – named after the thin stalk connecting a leaf to a stem – will feature pastries and desserts from Tendril’s head […]
High-flying Birmingham chef Brad Carter will open his first London restaurant this summer – in the basement of a historic church, St George’s in Hanover Square, Mayfair. Called Undercroft, the ambitious restaurant will showcase forgotten dishes such as wild garlic chicken toast, sea tripe and seaweed soup, Tamworth pork with creamed snails, and duck with offal […]
Far from fading into retirement following the closure earlier this year of Le Gavroche, Michel Roux has two new ventures lined up for the months ahead: a new spot at the Langham hotel, his long-time perch in Portland Place, opening in May, and what is billed as a unique live entertainment restaurant at a historic […]
A glossy Chinese restaurant which justifies dressing up for dinner opens in Glasgow city centre next week. Paul Sloan of the Hunky Dory Group hopes Zhima will “bring to Glasgow what Hakkasan does to London and Tattu does to Edinburgh – an elegant, adventurous dining destination“. The million-pound pound project has been in development for four […]
A trio of friends with impressive track records have opened a new wine bar and restaurant called Wilson’s in Ladywell High Street, southeast London. Wilson’s is next door to crowd-funded sustainable food store Plenty and opposite coffee shop Oscar’s, which are both owned by husband and wife Alina and Joel Falconer. Joel is a former […]
