London-based chef-restaurateur Richard Corrigan is opening a new restaurant in his native Ireland next month. Park Café, in Ballsbridge, Dublin, will offer all-day casual dining with a 60-seat all-weather terrace and roof garden, serving produce grown at Virginia Park Lodge in Co Cavan, the 18th-century estate he bought in 2013. Best-known for his London flagships […]
Duck + Champagne, a new restaurant concept serving a menu of duck dishes from around the world accompanied by a list of champagnes from small independent growers, opened this week in the Chelsea Funhouse, formerly the landmark World’s End pub on the King’s Road. The menu runs from duck charcuterie and duck bao buns to […]
Fresh from his success at Arcade Food Hall, green-fingered chef Luke Farrell opens his latest Thai-inspired restaurant, Speedboat Bar, in Chinatown this month. Named after the boats which race along the klongs or canals of Bangkok, the venue aims to capture the food and atmosphere of the late-night dens of the Thai capital’s Chinatown. Luke […]
A high-end Japanese omakase restaurant with a Middle Eastern twist is scheduled to open in Marylebone by the end of September. Mayha, in Chiltern Street, is the first UK opening from Beirut’s Nothing But Love group, although chefs Jurek Wasio and Yuichi Nahayo have both previously worked in London’s Yashin Sushi and Ocean House. The […]
An ambitious new restaurant combining Japanese izakaya-style dining with low-intervention wines and their equivalent unfiltered nigori (cloudy) sake has opened in Embassy Gardens, the development adjacent to the new US Embassy in Nine Elms which has transformed the area between Battersea and Vauxhall. Evernight is the first restaurant from Singaporean chef Lynus Lim, formerly of […]
A new restaurant/cocktail bar/art gallery is to open in the heart of Soho next week (Wednesday 7 September). Bantof, in Great Windmill Street, will feature an all-day menu of sharing plates created by Asimakis Chaniotis, head chef at Pied a Terre in Fitzrovia. The cocktail offering has been designed by Jack Scotti of SuperNacular, and […]
Coworth Park, the luxury hotel near Sunningdale in Berkshire, will unveil a new destination restaurant named after its executive chef next week. Woven by Adam Smith promises to “push the boundaries of creativity and excellence” when it launches on Thursday 8 September. Once owned by the polo-playing Canadian billionaire Galen Weston, the palatial Georgian house […]
Chef Robbie Lorraine has swapped a shipping container at Pop Brixton for a Grade II listed Jacobean manor house in Kent in one of the year’s most spectacular changes in workplace scenery. South Londoner Robbie, who has cooked at Chelsea FC among other places, gained rave reviews for Only Food and Courses, the retro-inspired pop-up […]
Koyn, a contemporary take on the traditional Japanese izakaya will be the fifth opening in Samyukta Nair’s (pictured, above) collection of Mayfair restaurants when it opens on Wednesday 21 September in the former US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square. The kitchen will be run by executive chef Rhys Cattermoul, a New Zealander formerly of Nobu […]
Sunda Kitchen, a new Southeast Asian restaurant and cocktail bar, opened in Covent Garden this week from Jamie Younger, co-owner of Thai food pioneer the Begging Bowl in Peckham. Occupying the former site of Wahlburgers in James Street, Sunda has a menu of snacks and sharing plates including Thai KFC cauliflower with tamarind mayo, Malaysian […]
