The team behind London restaurant Fallow is launching an upmarket low-waste ethical chicken shop called Fowl next week in St James’s Market. Occupying the former Cubitt House pub the Beau Brummell, Fowl opens with a guest collaboration from the great and semi-retired French chef Pierre Koffmann, who has created a Chicken Leg Corn Dog with Aleppo Pepper (pictured) […]
Chef Merlin Labron-Johnson has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds so his high-achieving but tiny Somerset restaurant, Osip, can move into new, much larger premises. The new Osip will be a “country auberge” offering accommodation as well as meals, set in a restored historical building in the countryside a few miles from the current […]
Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng, the chef couple behind the long-running East-meets-West project TATA Eatery , will open their new restaurant Solis in Battersea on October 4 – and this time it is Iberia meets Uruguay. The 80-cover venue is the final addition to the Arcade Battersea food hall, which opened this summer in the former […]
A new West African restaurant is to open next month in a railway arch next to Borough Market. Akara is Aji Akokomi’s more casual follow-up to his acclaimed Fitzrovia flagship, Akoko. The new venue is named after the crispy West African fritters made from black-eyed beans which will be served as starters, stuffed with prawns […]
Plans have been drawn up for an Indian hospitality venue on the edge of Manchester that would be Europe’s largest restaurant, with the capacity to seat up to 1,500 guests over four floors. Royal Nawaab, the company behind the project, already operates a 500-cover restaurant and banqueting suite in the iconic Art Deco Hoover Building, […]
An ambitious new restaurant opened in Poole this week under the name Thirteen – after the number of courses served on its tasting menu. With a sharp focus on seasonal Dorset ingredients, including many foraged or grown in the restaurant’s own urban garden, Thirteen is the debut from chef-patron Alex Naik and represents the realisation of […]
A new Franco-Irish brasserie has launched in Old Spitalfields Market. 65A Spitalfields officially opens next Tuesday, 12 September, but diners can sample it today with food at a 30% discount during the soft launch. The restaurant is owned by Irish-born entrepreneur and publican Patrick Frawley, with executive chef Maura Baxter running the kitchen. It takes […]
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 […]
