Two New Yorkers who first met working in a suburban grocery store more than 30 years ago have teamed up for the launch of an authentic New York-style bagel café in Primrose Hill. It’s Bagels will be unveiled in Regent’s Park Road on Monday, and opening seven days a week to eat in, on the […]
American-Italian restaurant Lavo is to launch its first European branch in Marylebone this month – the latest in a rash of upscale Italian-inspired openings from international operators in London this autumn. Lavo was founded in New York in 20 years ago by Noah Tepperberg of the Tao Group and took off as a brand following the […]
A cheese-focused restaurant serving pizzas made with local seasonal products is to open near Settle in North Yorkshire next month. Called Rind, it is the result of the friendship between Andy Swinscoe, founder of Settle’s cheese shop The Courtyard Dairy, and Mathew Carver of London’s floating restaurant the Cheese Barge. Housed in a former falconry […]
Jeremy King is to revive Le Caprice, the celebrity-magnet restaurant where he made his name alongside business partner Chris Corbin in the 1980s (Jeremy is on the right in this 1985 photograph, taken outside Le Caprice). Originally founded in 1947, the venue behind The Ritz was closed three years ago by its most recent owner, […]
Ambitious Wandsworth town restaurant London Stock is to open a second branch next month in the heart of Mayfair – a move that brings its young team into direct competition with some of the culinary world’s big hitters. London Stock was launched three years ago as the flagship dining destination at Wandsworth’s new ‘Ram Quarter’, the […]
Fast-growing Manchester pasta specialist Sud has opened its first branch in the city centre, on the site of the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre. Sud joins the highly rated Basque outfit Baratxui, formerly of Ramsbottom, and modern Scandi small plates specialist Osma at Exhibition, a new food and drink destination in the city’s former natural history […]
Hong Kong-based restaurateur David Yeo is adding two Italian venues to his growing Aqua London portfolio this year – the informal Luci, which opened in Covent Garden last month, followed by Azzurra, a more upscale seafood specialist in Chelsea. Aqua already has six restaurants in London, covering cuisines from East Asia to Spain – Hutong and […]
A new restaurant serving ‘wild’ meat opens this week on the Knepp estate near Horsham in West Sussex – England’s largest rewilding project, where herds of cattle, pigs, ponies and deer roam free. Wilding Kitchen Restaurant is set in a converted 18th-century barn next to a new courtyard garden, where produce is grown using regenerative […]
Veteran chef Rowley Leigh is making a comeback at the age of 73 with a three-month pop-up bistro called Chez Rowley, which opens next month in Notting Hill. He describes the venture as “a bistro with nostalgic dishes and classic technique at its heart designed to be enjoyed family style. The true show stopper, poulet […]
