Valentina, a long-established family-run Italian deli in East Sheen, is reopening as a restaurant this weekend at its original location – familiar to thousands of motorists who pass on a busy southwest London stretch of the South Circular. A new deli has opened near the local Waitrose supermarket. Owned and operated by three generations of […]
Goat on the Roof, a tapas and wine bar championing organic seasonal produce from local suppliers alongside natural and sustainable wines, will open in Newbury, Berkshire, next Tuesday, 3 May. The new venture is owned and operated by Patrick Vaughan-Fowler, who ran the George & Dragon in nearby Hurstbourne Tarrant for seven years, and head […]
Tutto, an ambitious new Italian restaurant from the team behind Brighton’s Salt Room, is to open this summer in a revamped 1930s bank on Marlborough Place – just a few minutes’ walk from the Brighton Pavilion. The kitchen will run by Sardinian-born Mirella Pau, who is from a restaurant-owning family. Mentored in London by Angela Hartnett, […]
Food writer/chef Florence Knight and artist/entrepreneur Jonny Gent (pictured) have combined to launch Boath House, a bohemian retreat in the Scottish Highlands, reprising the successful formula behind their opening last year of Sessions Arts Club in a former Georgian court building beside Clerkenwell Green in London. Boath House is a listed Georgian mansion about 20 […]
A pop-up African supper club in Edinburgh has found a permanent home in the city’s New Town, as the continent’s cuisine makes increasing progress across the UK. Farin Road, from chef Tunde Abifarin, is taking a residency at the cafe Tani Modi on Hanover Street, operating initially on Friday and Saturday evenings from next month. […]
Margot Henderson of Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch is taking over a Somerset pub with rooms, The Three Horseshoes in Batcombe, which is scheduled to reopen after refurbishment in November. The 17th-century country pub has five guest bedrooms, and will serve “heartfelt, wholesome meals that celebrate the very best produce from local farmers”. The chef was […]
Star Edinburgh chef Tom Kitchin is opening a new restaurant, Kora, on the Bruntsfield site formerly occupied by his bistro Southside Scran, which closed down in 2020 after barely a year’s operation – a victim of both flooding and the pandemic. Named after the classical goddess of spring and agriculture, Kora opens appropriately this spring and […]
Isle of Wight-based chef Robert Thompson is to be chef-patron of the new North House boutique hotel and restaurant in Cowes, he has announced on Instagram. Originally from Bedfordshire, Thompson worked under legendary chef Germain Schwab at Winteringham Fields in Lincolnshire, taking over the kitchen at the age of 23 when Schwab retired. He moved […]
A rooftop bar with 360-degree views across the City is to open next month in the former House of Fraser department store in King William Street, close to the Monument and London Bridge – a building long earmarked for a new City branch of The Wolseley. Wagtail, from Maven Leisure, will also feature a downstairs terrace […]
Crabshakk, the pioneer of high-quality fish and seafood at everyday prices in Glasgow, is launching a second, much bigger branch in a listed former garage in the city’s West End. Crabshakk Botanics in Vinicombe Street opens next Friday, 22 April. The original Finnieston venue has won high ratings since it opened in 2009, and is […]
