Chef Isaac McHale (left in photo), co-founder of Shoreditch gastronomic powerhouse the Clove Clove, is to open a more informal offshoot just around the corner called Bar Valette, serving simple dishes inspired by French and Spanish coastal cuisine. Scheduled to open next month in the former premises of Two Lights (also backed by the team […]
Chef George Barson has joined Higher Farm regenerative project near Castle Cary in Somerset, where he is developing a new restaurant that is set to open next year. West Country-bred George made his name at Kitty Fisher’s in Mayfair’s Shepherd Market before heading back west to Bath three years ago to head the kitchen at […]
A new bakery-cum-restaurant intriguingly named Don’t Tell Dad will be unveiled next week in Queen’s Park, west London, with meals offered at half price during a soft launch for bookings between 20 December and 12 January.. The venue marks the realisation of a long-held dream for Daniel Land (pictured centre left), co-founder of Italian fast-food […]
Chester-based tapas bar Porta has opened its latest branch in the former premises of TV chef Simon Rimmer’s well-known West Didsbury venue Greens, the veteran vegetarian restaurant which closed down earlier this year with debts of about £600,000. Founded by brothers Joe & Ben Wright, Porta also has branches in Altrincham and Salford, and wins […]
High-profile Cardiff chefs Tommy Heaney (right in photo) and Dave Killick have teamed up to launch a ‘nose-to-tail’ restaurant with Italian influences in the leafy central district of Pontcanna. The new venture, Ember, is directly opposite Tommy’s flagship, Heaneys. Originally from Crumlin near Belfast, Tommy made his reputation at the Great House in Bridgend before […]
A former Mersey ferry docked on the Liverpool waterfront is to open as restaurant, bar and events space Daffodil next week following a £3.5m makeover. Formerly MV Royal Daffodil, the ferry plied the route from Liverpool to the Wirral for more than 60 years and is now moored in Canning Dock, close to the Royal […]
Veteran celeb chef Aldo Zilli makes his return to the London restaurant scene next week with the launch on Tuesday (10 December) of Undercroft in Mayfair, a dramatic new dining venue set in the crypt of historic St George’s church off Hanover Square. The venue was heavily trailed earlier this year as the site where […]
Babbo, the former Mayfair Italian restaurant with footballing connections, completes its transfer to St John’s Wood next week, while its fellow glossy Italian Bocconcino opens a seafood spinoff in the Strand called Osteria del Mare (pictured). Launching on Monday, Osteria del Mare takes inspiration from the Tuscan coastal resort of Forte dei Marmi, with ex-Barrafina […]
Sardinian chef Achille Pinna is to open a new self-named restaurant by the entrance to Shepherd Market in Mayfair next week. Pinna is backed by prolific restaurateurs George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev, the duo behind Burger & Lobster and Goodman, who earlier this month launched Fantomas in Chelsea. Achille is a former executive chef at […]
