An ambitious new riverside gastropub is opening in Barnes next month from locally raised Joe Grossman, the founder of the Patty & Bun burger chain, who has put together a crack team to revive The Waterman’s Arms. The mid-Victorian pub is on a prominent corner, but has struggled in recent years first as a branch […]
Jamie Oliver has confirmed that his new Covent Garden restaurant will open in November under the name ‘Jamie Oliver at Catherine Street’. The launch marks the TV chef and writer’s return to the British restaurant scene after the collapse of his mini-empire four years ago – amid heavy hints that other openings will follow. The […]
A tasting-menu restaurant that combines three of the hottest cooking trends – hyper-localism, Japanese and Middle Eastern cuisine – has launched this summer in Lancaster under the name Now Or Never. Jeff Marshall, a former private and development chef, and his wife Nichola, a keen forager who acts as sommelier and runs the front of house, say […]
A new high-end steakhouse specifically aimed at women is launching in Warrington this autumn, as a challenge to the genre’s traditional red-blooded macho image. Pendergast’s, in the Cheshire town’s cultural quarter, will serve plant-based dishes including celeriac ‘steaks’ and chalk-stream trout alongside a selection of prime cuts of beef, in a chic environment with no […]
Chef Paul Foster’s debut London venue GrassFed opened this week in a reclaimed Camden railway arch – a far cry from the historic timbered premises of his acclaimed restaurant Salt in Stratford-upon-Avon. As the name suggests, GrassFed showcases British beef and other meat, with a particular focus on ethical sourcing, sustainability and regenerative farming techniques. Much […]
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 […]
