Southwest London restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas is crowdfunding towards the launch next month of a second branch of her Putney restaurant Home SW15 in her home village of Barnes. Supporters are being asked to ‘buy a brick’ for £100 to be displayed at Home SW13, in return for an invitation to the soft launch in early […]
Veteran Edinburgh restaurateur Ignacio ‘Iggy’ Campos opens his latest venture next Wednesday (August 14) – a wine and tapas bar called Cata in Northwest Circus Place, Stockbridge. Now aged 72, he announced the opening with a social media post proclaiming “Iggy is back in business!” – “In Spanish, Cata means to taste, to try or a tasting of […]
A modern French bistro with a focus on affordability opens in the leafy southwest London borough of Richmond this month. Chef John McClements, who ran the local Ma Cuisine group for three decades, has come out of retirement to launch the project. Mignonette is just five minutes’ walk from Richmond station on the Kew Road, […]
An old Dalston boozer, the Marquis of Lansdowne, is to be reopened next week having been transformed into the Marquee Moon, a restaurant and ‘listening bar’ from the team behind nightclub The Cause. Stuart Glen and Eugene Wild, who also run Hackney Wick bar All My Friends and The Greyhound in Peckham, have renovated the […]
Pidgin in Hackney, one of the stars of the east London dining scene, is to close after nine years at the end of next week – and will be replaced by a new venture, Sesta, led by current head chef Drew Snaith and former manager Hannah Kowalski (pictured). Belying its diminutive size, Pidgin was hugely […]
The team behind Deptford’s Jerk Off BBQ have opened their first bricks-and-mortar bar-restaurant, Mauby in Brockley, following a successful crowdfunding campaign. Vowing to bring “a bit of Soho energy to Brockley”, the team has kicked off with an offer of cocktails, drinks and snacks, to be followed by a full menu taking in home-style Caribbean […]
Former Kerridge’s head chef Nick Beardshaw is to open his first restaurant as patron next month – Starling, in Esher on London’s southwestern fringe. He will be joined in the venture by manager James Shaw, a former assistant head sommelier at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. The 40-cover venue on Esher High Street will have a straightforward menu […]
Former River Cottage chef Sam Lomas (centre in picture) is to open his first restaurant in September, taking over the site previously occupied by highly rated Osip in Bruton, Somerset. Called Briar, the restaurant is a partnership with Claudia and Aled Rees (left & right in picture), who opened their boutique hotel Number One Bruton […]
A new Basque steakhouse has opened in the City specialising in dishes from the French side of the Basque country – and with long-term plans to showcase the first Galician Blond beef bred in the UK. Ibai, close to Smithfield Market, brings together former Chiltern Firehouse head chef Richard Foster (pictured centre) with Nemanja Borjanović […]
Jason Atherton has embarked on a dizzying reorganisation of his London restaurants that will see the closure of three ventures and the opening of at least five (depending on how you count them). The latest opening to be announced is Mary’s, a grill-led restaurant that will take over the Mayfair premises of Pollen Street Social […]
