Chef-owner Dev Biswal is to re-launch his Anglo-India Canterbury restaurant The Ambrette under a new identity as The Cook’s Tale, inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and focusing on locally sourced produce. Dev closed his original Ambrette, opposite Margate’s Turner Contemporary art gallery, earlier this year, saying he wanted to improve his work-life balance after […]
This summer is a season of mixed emotions for the natural wine lovers of east London, as bar/restaurant Cadet opens on Newington Green just as Peg on Morning Lane in Hackney closes. Cadet is a combined project from natural wine importers Francis Roberts and Tom Beattie (far left and far right in photo), paté-maker extraordinaire […]
Star Portuguese chef Henrique Sá Pessoa, who trained in London almost 30 years ago, makes his return to the capital later this year with the opening of a new high-rise restaurant in the Battersea Power Station development. JOIA, 15th-floor Iberian restaurant with its own bar on the floor below as well as a rooftop bar […]
The Hart Brothers will open a fifth branch of their flagship Barrafina tapas bar next Saturday in Borough Yards, the extension of the Borough Market food hub developed under the redbrick Victorian railway arches. The new Barrafina, which glories in the address of “2 Dirty Lane”, constitutes the final link in the Harts’ Borough Yards […]
A new restaurant focused on family recipes from Goa in southwest India opened this week on the south side of the currently pedestrian-only Hammersmith Bridge in Barnes. Postbox is the first restaurant from Leo Noronha, who leads the front-of-house team, with his cousin Lorenzo heading up the three-man kitchen. The menu features unusual takes on […]
Jeremy Clarkson has opened a restaurant at his Diddly Squat farm in the Cotswolds, having located a “cunning little loophole” to circumvent the local council’s refusal to grant him planning permission. Almost all the restaurant’s 40 seats are outdoors, the toilets are a long walk (or tractor/quad-bike ride) away, there are no vegetarian options and […]
Forza Win, the former pop-up serving simple but delicious Italian meals in a Peckham warehouse which closed down after a row with the landlord two years ago, is to reopen in September. It will take over the vacant site in Camberwell Church Street formerly home to Angels and Gypsies. The same group operates Forza Wine, […]
Chef Dean Banks has opened a new casual seafood bar and restaurant in Edinburgh, which he will run alongside the august Pompadour (pictured above) at the city’s Waldorf Astoria hotel and Haar in St Andrew’s. Dulse is in the Queensferry Street premises occupied for 18 years by Fred Birkmiller’s L’Escargot Blanc, which did not reopen […]
A new pub/restaurant with a high-end chef behind the stoves is launching in Islington. The Baring, close to the Regent’s Canal in Baring Street premises formerly known as The Poet, opens its doors on Tuesday. Sustainability is a major theme for both food and drink, with wines from low-intervention independent makers and a rotating choice […]
As the cost of living crisis begins to bite, a new restaurant is opening in Mayfair which boasts a dish costing £3,000 a pop – and a cocktail listed at a staggering £50,000. Miro launches next Friday in Old Burlington Street on the site of Street XO, and comes from the Cream Group owned by nightclub […]
