Frances Atkins, one of the most prominent British chefs of the century and one of the first women in the UK to earn a Michelin star*, launches her new venture tomorrow – a café in a garden centre near Harrogate, less than 20 miles from the Yorke Arms, the old coaching inn on the Yorkshire […]
Richard Caring has outlined plans for his most spectacular and decadent restaurant yet. Bacchanalia, in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, will channel the atmosphere of Ancient Greece and Rome, and promises to make his Sexy Fish, a near-neighbour, look like a vicarage tea party. “Bacchanalia was a festival of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,” he declared boldly – […]
Bristol-based East African street food stall Jikoni is to open its first bricks-and-mortar site next month in a cobbled courtyard in St Paul’s. Iman Salat and James Hillier have served dishes from Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania for two years at pop-ups and supper clubs around Bristol and Bath. Formerly known as Pear Cafe, tiny […]
Tattu, the ultra-glossy northern-based Oriental restaurant group, is putting finishing touches to its London debut in the Outernet’s ‘The Now Building’, on a prime corner of Tottenham Court Road. The flamboyant rooftop restaurant will have views across the city, with an interior inspired by traditional Chinese courtyard houses and designed by the Joyce Wang Studio […]
Glynn Purnell, whose Purnell’s in Birmingham city centre is hailed as the second best restaurant in Britain in the new Harden’s 2022 guide, is to open his first venue outside the city in Henley-in-Arden next month. The Mount by Glynn Purnell is a refurbished historic pub – formerly the Butchers’ Social – on the high street […]
Iranian streetfood specialist Berenjak is replacing James Lowe’s Flor bakery and wine bar on the edge of Southwark’s Borough Market, in a reshuffle of businesses backed by JKS Restaurants. Chef Kian Samyani (pictured) has won high praise for the original Berenjak, which opened in Romilly Street, Soho in 2018, with the new Harden’s 2022 guide […]
Vinoteca will open its latest wine bar and restaurant on Monday in the new Borough Yards development, adjacent to Borough Market. It will occupy two storeys in a red-brick Victorian railway arch, with views across to Southwark Cathedral. The venue will champion small, independent and innovative wineries, including its own Rodney & The Horse, which […]
The Butcher, a high-end European burger brand based in Amsterdam, has opened its first UK branch in Manchester. Billed as an “haute couture” take on the fast-food favourite, it launched this week at the new Urban Playground in the Arndale Centre. The brand has an ambitious mission statement to live up to, declaring: “The Butcher […]
Highly rated chef Scott Hallsworth is to launch a pop-up restaurant in a former Clerkenwell pizzeria this month, where he will give his Japanese-inspired plates a new twist by cooking in a wood-fired pizza oven. Double Dragon, in a Victorian bank building on Rosebery Avenue, opens on February 16. The Aussie-born chef headed kitchens at […]
The Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge is replacing pimped-up New York-style burgers with a hyper-trendy oriental import with today’s opening of The Aubrey in the space formerly occupied by Bar Boulud. Named after the decadent fin de siècle artist Aubrey Beardsley, the Aubrey pitches itself as an “eccentric Japanese izakaya experience”, offering upmarket food and cocktails […]
