Albert’s Schloss, the Manchester-based mock-Bavarian castle devoted to beer, rib-sticking food and Alpine good times, is to open in Liverpool’s busy Bold Street, taking over Radiator House, a six-storey Art Deco former food market and gas showroom. Roy Ellis of Mission Mars says he plans to spend £3m on a complete refurbishment, with a view […]
South African-based affordable seafood brand Ocean Basket has opened its first UK branch in Bromley, southeast London, targeting the growing global appetite for fish and seafood. Peter ‘Fats’ Lazarides (pictured) and his brother George opened their first restaurant in Pretoria – more than 300 miles from the nearest coast – in 1995. There are now more […]
Chef Martin Blunos, who has beaten an idiosyncratic culinary path from Bath to Bangkok, has found an unexpected perch in London with the launch this week of Crystal Palace neighbourhood restaurant Tell Tale. Opened by Jamie Edwards and Arron Curtis, the duo behind Brixton’s Electric Social (RIP) and New Cross pizzeria Radio Delicious, Tell Tale […]
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 […]
