An ambitious Indian restaurant inspired by the coastal areas of the subcontinent’s southern states opens in Leeds this week. Ma-Hé, in the Marrion Centre in the city’s central Arena Quarter, is a debut restaurant from founders Manoj Varma, a spirits consultant with property interests in India, and Leeds-based lingerie entrepreneur Mason Asgha of Delta Connex. […]
A new neighbourhood restaurant bringing “sexy but healthy” food to Barnes opens next week. The Farmer’s Mistress has taken the White Hart Lane site long known for its branch of Annie’s, and more recently the short-lived Camile Thai. Founder Joanna Gascoigne, who already has a Farmer’s Mistress branch in Battersea, has transformed the interior of […]
A sustainable Japanese restaurant using seasonal Sussex ingredients called Fumi has opened in Brighton, from the team behind Wolfox roastery and cafés. The team also opened plant-based Japanese restaurant Kusaki nearby in 2021. Founder Fabio Lauro said: “At Fumi we want to bring everything that is good about the beautiful countryside of Sussex together with […]
Hot on the heels of restaurateur supreme Jeremy King announcing his comeback venture The Park – a modern take on the European grand café tradition launching next April opposite the entrance to Kensington Gardens – comes news that he is in “advanced talks” over two sites in the West End: one of them directly opposite […]
The team behind highly rated Edinburgh restaurant Timberyard is to open a new wine bar and restaurant in a distinctive late-Victorian pub in the city’s Abbeyhill district. Montrose House (pictured), in Montrose Terrace, is scheduled to open this autumn. Timberyard director Jo Radfordsaid: “In a way we will be opening a venue with two very […]
South London chef Dom Taylor has opened an ambitious Caribbean restaurant in the West End’s luxury Langham hotel as the prize for winning a televised competition hosted by Michel Roux Jr. The Good Front Room opened the day after the result of Channel 4’s Five Star Kitchen was announced, taking over the Langham’s Palm Court […]
Restaurateur Jeremy King, the founder of the Wolseley who was ousted from his company Corbin & King last year, has announced his plan to open a new restaurant next year. The Park, in the Bayswater Road’s Park Modern building opposite Kensington Park Gardens, will be a brasserie in the ‘grand European café’ tradition that inspired […]
Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech is the latest high-profile footballer to invest some of his earnings in a restaurant – a halal-friendly Mexican joint called Taco Taco that launches this month in Spitalfields. After his starring role for Morocco in the World Cup last year, Ziyech – like everybody else at Chelsea – had a less successful domestic season, […]
Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, the Israeli foodie power couple behind Honey & Co, are to open a new daytime venue in Bloomsbury this September. Honey & Co Daily, in Store Street off Tottenham Court Road, will combine a deli and takeaway with a 40-seat dining room open during the day, which will operate as […]
Highly regarded Edinburgh chef Stuart Ralston is to open an ambitious seafood restaurant in the Royal Terrace premises of the late Paul Kitching’s 21212, which closed down earlier this year following the latter’s sudden death. Paul’s widow, Katie O’Brien, said she and her team were devastated by Paul’s passing. She continues to operate the venue’s […]
