A new upmarket Japanese restaurant has opened in the middle of Newcastle, following a £600,000 refurbishment. Butakun, which means ‘Master Pig’, is next door to the landmark Hotspur pub on Percy Street – and is Tyneside’s second Japanese opening in a matter of weeks following Miso in Ouseburn. Robert Lao, Chin Teow and Charles Tang (left to […]
London’s first new West End theatre for 50 years opens tomorrow (15 October), which should increase footfall in the centre of the city still suffering from the ravages of the pandemic. The Soho Place theatre – or @sohoplace as owners Nimax rather irritatingly prefer it to be known – will have a 70-cover restaurant called Stars, with […]
Sparrow Italia, the spinoff of a large and glitzy Los Angeles restaurant, alights in Mayfair next week when it opens its doors on Tuesday 18 October in the Avery Row site formerly occupied by Mykonos-themed Onima. Sparrow was created last year by AJ McCloud, executive chef of hospitality company Noble 33. Born in Boston and […]
Des Gunewardina (left in photo), half of the D&D London operation that took over Conran Restaurants in a 2006 management buy-out, has left the company “to pursue other ventures”, days before it opens its 41st venue, Orelle in Birmingham. His co-founder David Loewi, the other D who served as deputy chairman and chief operating officer, […]
Ambitious new restaurant St Barts opens today near Smithfield market, on the edge of the City of London. It is the third venue from three friends who have progressed from pop-ups to the tiny Nest in Hackney and the slightly larger Fenn in Fulham – both of which won rave reviews and high ratings for their […]
Gareth Ward of Welsh powerhouse Ynyshir is planning to open not one, but two new venues in the nearby market town of Machynlleth. The first will be an intimate wine bar/restaurant named Gwen in honour of his mother, which he hopes to follow up with a sourdough pizzeria next door. Gwen will take over the […]
Fergus Henderson’s world-famous ‘nose-to-tail’ restaurant St John will next month open its first new satellite venue for more than a decade – a two-storey all-day operation including a wine bar in the heart of Marylebone Village. St John Marylebone launches on Tuesday 18 October (now delayed to 19 October) at 98 Marylebone Lane, next-door to a […]
Nathan Richardson, former head chef at the Guinea Grill in Mayfair, is opening his new country gastropub today in the Vale of the White Horse near Faringdon in Oxfordshire. The Lamb Tavern is in Buckland, a photogenic estate village of thatched Cotswold stone cottages built to house staff from the Palladian mansion Buckland House in […]
The century-old Paris caviar house Petrossian is to open its first London deli and restaurant in South Kensington in November. The business prepared the way for its UK expansion by opening a processing laboratory in Chessington last year. Armenian brothers Melkoum and Mouchegh Petrossian founded the business in Paris in 1920, and prospered through their […]
