Well-known Scottish chef Kevin Dalgleish is to open his first restaurant as proprietor later this month in his home city of Aberdeen – Amuse, in Queen’s Terrace. Kevin trained at The Savoy in London under the great Anton Edelman, and returned to northeast Scotland to head kitchens at Ackergill Tower then Aberdeen’s Chester Hotel. He […]
A new multi-level restaurant concept is scheduled to open this month at the edge of Cambridge’s ancient market, in the building occupied for almost 50 years by well-known Italian restaurant Don Pasquale. Market House will incorporate a restaurant, an all-day cafe, a wine bar, a food lab and flexible meetings rooms over five floors of […]
Roti King, the legendary Malaysian curryhouse near Euston station, has opened second site in the Battersea Power Station development overlooking the Thames. The new branch is under an arch of the Victoria station railway bridge, where its neighbours include the Battersea Brewery and a boutique cinema. This salubrious setting is in stark contrast to the […]
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 […]
