Former Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons head chef Dorian Janmaat is to open his first restaurant next month – Ardor in St Ives, Cornwall, where he will combine his love of his twin childhood homelands, Spain and Cornwall. The restaurant occupies an old house in Fore Street, with seating over two floors as well as at […]
Florentine comfort food concept Dez Amore opens its first permanent restaurant next week, on a corner site in Chelsea with a retro-modern look inspired by Italy in the 1970s. Launched by two friends from Florence, Leonardo Masi and Simone Parentini (pictured), Dez Amore lays claim to a ‘double soul’ that combines traditional Italian cooking with […]
Irina Linovich’s vegetable-focused project Holy Carrot will open its first bricks and mortar restaurant in Notting Hill next month, with a ‘fire and ferment’-based menu from chef Daniel Watkins, co-founder of Dalston’s ACME Fire Cult. Irina launched Holy Carrot four years ago with a series of supper-club dinners, and the permanent site aims to show […]
A new British Isles-focused restaurant and bar with a strong seafood offer is to open in Greenwich next month. Highroad Social takes over the site of the Rivington Grill, next door to the Picturehouse cinema. Founder David O’Brien is an ex-development director at Caprice Holdings, with an Irish head chef in Fionnan Flood, formerly of The […]
The three brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca in Girona are to open a restaurant at The Macallan whisky distillery in Scotland this summer. In what is said to be their first venture outside Spain, the brothers will sprinkle their Catalan magic over the local Scottish larder. TimeSpirit, which opens in August at Craigellachie […]
Dubai-based Chinese restaurant Shanghai Me is to take over the Galvin brothers’ former Windows perch on the 28th storey of the Park Lane Hilton, as London’s oldest skyscraper hotel reshuffles its dining offer. In the second part of the reshuffle, Amsterdam steakhouse group Mr Porter is moving in to the lower ground floor site occupied […]
Nottingham chef Louisa Ellis, a past winner of MasterChef: The Professionals, has launched a ‘food and event-focused’ project in a former Methodist church in the city. Destination 105, in Lady Bay’s Trent Boulevard, does not operate as a conventional restaurant. Instead, it hosts one-off ‘dining experiences’ ranging from tasting menus, three-course menus and Sunday dinners […]
Mayfair restaurateur Samyukta Nair (left in photo) opens her latest restaurant, Koyn Thai, in collaboration with Bangkok-born chef Rose Chalalai Singh (centre) this Sunday, 16 June. The restaurant is taking over the basement dining room of Samyukta’s Japanese restaurant Koyn, off Grosvenor Square, with Koyn executive chef Rhys Cattermoul (right) running the kitchen. Each restaurant […]
The River Café, Ruth Rogers’s iconic Italian restaurant overlooking the Thames near Hammersmith, has opened a café next door – and yes, they’ve called it The River Café Café. The new café, which launched this week, is open every day from 9am until 10pm (4pm Sundays, closed on Mondays), serving an all-day Italian menu prepared by […]
Odette’s in Primrose Hill is to be reborn as Home Kitchen, a social enterprise fine-dining restaurant staffed by homeless people, under the direction of executive chef Adam Simmonds (centre in picture). Odette’s closed down suddenly at the end of May after a run of almost 50 years as one of London’s best-known and most atmospheric […]