A new steakhouse, Block Soho, opens in St Anne’s Court, Soho next week on the site formerly occupied by another steakhouse, Zelman Meats, which closed here in March last year. Block Soho is the second launch of the summer from Roger Payne’s Enhanced Hospitality group, following the opening last month of the Maddox Tavern in […]
Adam Reid – whose eponymous restaurant ‘at The French’ in Manchester’s Midland Hotel is probably the grandest restaurant in the city – will throw a light on humbler tastes with his latest project, The Butty Shop, which opens next Friday, 26 August, in the smart New Century Hall food court. The Butty Shop will celebrate […]
A retro-themed canteen and bar inspired by 1970s social clubs in northern cities and an on-trend community hub in Copenhagen has opened in Sheffield. Neepsend Social Club was launched this month on Kelham Island, a former industrial zone now regenerated as a food-and-drink hot spot. The venue features functional furniture, fittings and flooring with décor […]
John Javier’s Middle Eastern-inspired restaurant The Tent (at the end of the universe) at members’ club 17 Little Portland Street in Fitzrovia will open to the public next Wednesday, 17th August. Ex-Noma chef John Javier launched the restaurant in February, serving tabbouleh, humus and taramasalata to guests sitting on low stools under canvas-hung ceilings, accompanied […]
JKS Restaurants have revealed plans to open a new Arcade Food Hall next year at Battersea Power Station. It follows the delayed launch earlier this year of their original Arcade, in the Centrepoint building by Tottenham Court Road station. JKS made the announcement via Twitter: “We’re creating a number of exciting new brands showcasing even […]
A 16-seat restaurant serving a ten-course meal at a single evening sitting will open this autumn in Shoreditch’s Blue Mountain School. Chef Theo Clench (right in photo), formerly of Akoko and Portland, will head the kitchen at Cycene, cooking a seasonal menu influenced by Australasia with an emphasis on seafood. Among the signature dishes he […]
No sooner have Boris and Carrie Johnson belatedly celebrated their nuptials with a South African braai on the Bamfords’ Daylesford Park estate than a South African-style steakhouse opens in Mayfair. Meat & Wine Co, which launches next Monday, 8 August, in Curzon Street, is the brainchild of Bradley Michael, a former personal training instructor in […]
Mexican-American actor Danny Trejo is planning to open a flagship taco restaurant in central London, followed by a succession of delivery-only ghost kitchens to open every three months. He has raised £775,000 of a £1million target in a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The 78-year-old Trejo is a reformed junkie gangster who spent much of his […]
Italian-Brazilian chef Rafael Cagali, whose Da Terra in Bethnal Green is the top-ranking London restaurant in the current Harden’s guide, is to open a second venture at the same address. Elis will take over the site of the Corner Room restaurant in the Town Hall Hotel, in Bethnal Green’s beautifully restored former town hall, which […]
Twin brother restaurateurs Alberto and Arian Zandi will open a restaurant called Riviera – inspired by the cuisine of the South of France – in St James’s this autumn. It will be the Zandi’s fourth restaurant and their most prominent, occupying the striking Modernist building next to The Economist magazine that was formerly occupied by […]
