Tel Aviv-based restaurant Claro makes its European debut with tomorrow’s opening of a branch at St James’s market, off Piccadilly Circus. It has taken over an ex-Villandry site with an outdoor terrace in what was once a bank building in Waterloo Place. Featuring ‘contemporary, sophisticated Eastern Mediterranean cuisine’, Claro was founded in Tel Aviv 10 […]
A new Italian restaurant called Canteen opened quietly this week in Notting Hill from the team behind The Hero in Maida Vale, which launched to rave reviews earlier this summer. Canteen has taken over the former Pizza East site on the corner of Portobello and Golborne Roads, with a kitchen run by two ex-River Café […]
Two former pop-ups which combine hifi sounds with tasty food (and serious drinks) have opened in South London – Hausu in Peckham and Jazu in Deptford. Hausu, which has taken over the former Coal Rooms premises in the old booking hall at Peckham Rye station, describes its approach as ‘vintage high-fidelity sound & modern cuisine’. This […]
Highly rated Glasgow small-plates specialist Ox and Finch is closing tomorrow night for a six-month overhaul, allowing the team behind it – Jonathan MacDonald’s Scoop – to launch two separate restaurants at the same address in the city centre. First up will be Margo, described as a “bigger and bolder” version of Ox and Finch, […]
Peruvian restaurant LIMA this week opened its third branch, LIMA Shoreditch, in the boutique Sun Street Hotel on the edge of the City. Brothers Gabriel & José Luís Gonzales launched the original in Fitzrovia in 2012, and followed up two years later with a Covent Garden branch, Lima Cantina. Gabriel said, “We are beyond thrilled […]
Islington’s post-covid curry phenomenon Tamil Prince has opened its first offshoot in South London with the launch this week of Tamila in Clapham. The restaurant has taken over the former site of VE Kitchen in Northcote Road – the main drag of thriving ‘Nappy Valley’, south of Clapham Junction station. Tamila brings back the name of […]
Edinburgh sommelier James Clark (left in picture) launches his debut project today (4 October) – Sotto, a wine bar and restaurant in Stockbridge that celebrates Italian food and wine. Sotto – meaning ‘under’ or ‘beneath’, a reference to the under-street cellar where the wines are stored – comprises an upstairs ‘enoteca’ and a ground-level trattoria led by Calabrian-born Francesco […]
Mexican chef Santiago Lastra launches his follow-up to smash-hit Kol next week. Fonda will open on Thursday (3 October) in Mayfair’s Heddon Street, opposite heavyweights Sabor and Ambassadors Clubhouse. Named after a Mexican style of family-run local restaurants, Fonda will be more accessibly priced than ‘fine-dining’ Kol, with meals structured around the ‘coma’, a traditional […]
Veteran Belgravia bar-brasserie Motcombs – a key ‘Sloane Ranger’ site in its 1980s prime – is to open its first spinoff venue next month, in St John’s Wood. The new 80-cover restaurant with a 16-seat covered terrace just off Circus Road will be open from breakfast through to dinner, serving a menu of classic British, European […]
A chef couple from Edinburgh have opened their first restaurant, Nàdair, serving a daily-changing five-course set menu that celebrates prime Scottish ingredients. Head chef Alan Keery and pastry chef Sarah Baldry met while working together in the kitchen at one of the city’s leading restaurants, Wedgwood. The 20-cover Nàdair (Gaelic for ‘nature’), on Roseneath Street […]
