Silva, a new ‘day-to-night’ restaurant, opened yesterday in a Mayfair mews from first-time restaurateur Daria Grebenyuk. She recruited experienced hands led by head chef Slawomir Sawicki (ex-of Eric Chavot, Galvin at La Chapelle, Arts Club) and former Sir Terence Conran partner Peter Prescott to bring the project to fruition. Silva – from the Latin word for […]
The team behind Berkshire’s The Woodspeen will tomorrow open a contemporary restaurant and cocktail bar called The Braywood on the site of the historic Royal Oak in Paley Street near Maidenhead. Formerly owned by chat-show host Michael Parkinson, the Royal Oak was run by his son Nick for two decades and in 2018 hosted the […]
A ‘beak-to-tail’ restaurant offering 17 different cuts of chicken cooked on skewers over a custom-made hibachi grill opened this week on the edge of the City in Holborn. Hotori, in New Fetter Lane, is a yakitori specialist – a popular style of eating in Japan – although unlike most in its country of origin it also serves […]
Fooderati favourite Australian chef David Thompson made his long-awaited return to the London food scene this week with the launch of Long Chim – 12 years after he closed Nahm in Belgravia and relocated to Bangkok. Billed as a modern interpretation of the cooking found in Bangkok’s markets and alleyways, Long Chim – meaning ‘come and […]
Mitch Tonks (right in picture) is taking over the site of Mark Hix’s (left) Oyster and Fish House in Lyme Regis, which he will relaunch next year as part of his growing Rockfish group. Mark will close the restaurant after 16 years on 7 December. He lost his London restaurant empire during the Covid pandemic, […]
Filipino street-food specialist Rex De Guzman opens his first permanent restaurant, Turo Turo barbecue and grill, in Tooting next Wednesday, 14 November. A former chef at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze, Rex has operated Turo Turo – a term for fast food in the Philippines – as a market stall over the past decade, and more recently as a […]
A restaurant offering a ‘fine-dining’ take on classic northern dishes has launched in Rochdale’s newly restored Victorian Gothic town hall. The Martlet Kitchen, named after a mythical bird with no legs, has taken flight under chef Darren Parkinson, formerly of Shibden Mill in Halifax. It is open all day from breakfast, via a straightforward lunch […]
A new steakhouse showcasing prime grass-fed Yorkshire beef opens tonight in a landmark 1930s building in Hull that has been empty for the past 10 years. One Steakhouse & Lounge, at 1 Witham overlooking North Bridge on the edge of the city centre, will accommodate up to 200 guests in the transformed dining room and […]
Prolific Mayfair-based restaurateur Samyukta Nair is to open her first Italian restaurant next week – Nipotina, an all-day family-oriented neighbourhood venue in South Audley Street. Turin-born chef Somaia Hammad (right in photograph) will lead the kitchen, while Luca Dusi (left), of Passione Vino in Shoreditch, has assembled a wine list featuring small and artisanal producers from […]
Peckham’s Artusi Italian restaurant is making a leap to the West End with the opening this evening of a spinoff in Theatreland. Artusi Soho has taken over the site vacated by Cafe Kitty in the Underbelly Boulevard theatre – where it will offer pre-theatre menus between 5 and 7pm at £25 for 2 courses and £30 […]
