Highly regarded chef Tim Allen opens his first restaurant as owner this today, after repeated successes working for other people – a point he emphasises with the name of his new venture, So-lo, in Lancashire. “I’ve done it in everyone else’s restaurants in every place I’ve been, but it’s never actually been properly mine. So this […]
The Pig’s Head, billed as a “pro-planet pub” with sustainability at the top of its mission statement, opens next Wednesday, 8th November, in Clapham Old Town. Produce will come from regenerative farmers, with butchery performed on-site, while wine, spirits and beers will be sourced from sustainable production. The refurb has used up-cycled or recycled fixtures […]
Successful South London chef Nicholas Balfe opens his first country restaurant next Wednesday, 10 November – Holm, at South Petherton near Crewkerne in Somerset. Balfe, part of the trio behind Salon Brixton, who went on to launch Levan and Larry’s in Peckham, sees the new venture as a lifestyle change more than a business. “Having […]
Chef Rob Taylor and his wife Donna open their new restaurant Tallow, at Southborough on the edge of Tunbridge Wells in Kent next Friday, 5 November, having left the well-regarded The Compasses further east at Crundale after eight years last month. Set in an old building on the edge of Southborough’s village green, Tallow is […]
Inca, a new high-end South American restaurant/nightclub, opens this weekend (30 October) in Argyll Street, Soho, with live shows on stage from midnight and a late licence until 4am from Wednesdays. Occupying the former site of nightclub Toy Room, Inca can seat 170 guests and has been created by a team who worked together at […]
Jamaican restaurant Up A Yard has opened in rural north Wales, as the culmination of a successful lockdown project from Charlotte Stanley, ex head chef of 1891 Restaurant and Bar at the Pavilion Theatre in Rhyl. Up A Yard occupies the site of the former cafe at Holywell Art and Craft Mill in Flintshire. Charlotte, […]
A new all-day restaurant opens in Wrexham on Monday promising to herald “a new generation of British casual dining”. The Blk Sheep Baa and Grill is planned as the first in a group which will expand throughout the North-West region. Based in an old dairy at Wrexham’s Plassey Holiday Park, Blk Sheep Baa is from […]
Former Birley Clubs operations director Simon King and Heston Blumenthal chef Matt Larcombe have teamed up to launch The Victoria in Oxshott, Surrey – reflecting a post-pandemic trend towards bringing Central London-quality cuisine to the commuter-belt suburbs. The pair met while working together on the launch of the Crown, the Fat Duck’s gastropub offshoot in […]
Ross Shonhan adds to his portfolio of rock ‘n’ roll ramen bars and izakayas (which includes Bone Daddies and Shackfuyu) with an offshoot of Flesh & Buns opening in Fitzrovia in late-June this year. The original opened in Covent Garden in 2013 and has won consistent praise among our reporters for food that’s “a taste […]
London’s appetite for fresh pasta specialists remains undimmed (Pastaio, Padella, Pastifico all spring to mind). Joining their ranks is this Covent Garden-fringe venture from William Ellner (of Joanna’s in Crystal Palace) and David Ramsey with ex-Locanda Locatelli chef Louis Korovilas in the kitchen whipping up the likes of pappardelle with kid goat and rosemary ragù. […]
