An ambitious new restaurant headed by a former River Cafe chef opens in a Grade II listed townhouse opposite the Natural History Museum in South Kensington next week. The Lavery – named after a former resident, Irish-born artist Sir John Lavery – has taken over the premises of the former Cromwell Place café, and will offer […]
An all-day Venetian-style cafe and art gallery launches tomorrow close to the new museum which opened in Perth last year to house Scotland’s iconic Stone of Scone. Osteria Bau Bau is the culmination of four years of planning by founders Francesca Tata and Neil McCulloch, who met at art college in Dundee. They believe it […]
Leading Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho, of Sabor in Mayfair, has unveiled plans to launch a second venue in London with the opening of Legado, meaning ‘legacy’, in Shoreditch High Street this summer. Sabor, which she founded in 2018, has been the Harden’s guide’s top-ranked Spanish restaurant in London for the past four years. It […]
Giorgio Locatelli is to open a new restaurant at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square this summer, five months after closing his famous Locanda Locatelli in Marylebone. The new all-day restaurant, to be called simply Locatelli, is on the mezzanine of the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which reopens on May 10 after a two-and-a-half-year refurbish. He […]
Chef David Taylor is to double his footprint at Hampton Manor luxury hotel near Birmingham with the opening next week of restaurant Kynd, following his success with Grace & Savour on the same Warwickshire estate. Grace & Savour opened three years ago, quickly establishing itself as a Midlands powerhouse and rising to number 30 on […]
Gordon Ramsay (right in photo) has acquired the former site of Le Gavroche in Mayfair, with chef Matt Abé (left) shifting from his flagship, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, to take charge of the as-yet-unnamed new venture. Michel Roux closed Le Gravroche, in Upper Brook Street, just over a year ago, ending […]
A high-end Chinese restaurant featuring the cuisines of Canton and Hubei with a signature luxury set menu at £388 a head is launching this month in Fitzrovia. 3 Gorges has taken over the former Trattoria Mondello in Goodge Street, across the road from founder Li Zhang’s Sichuan-inspired restaurant Sanxia Renjia, which also has branches in […]
Edinburgh-based special events chef Barry Bryson today opens his debut seafood restaurant, Barry Fish, on the historic Leith waterfront. In more than a decade cooking for events, Barry has worked for high-end clients including Jupiter Artland, Glenmorangie, Louis Vuitton, Aston Martin and the British Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. His pop-ups have included a sold-out season […]
Leytonstone’s wildly popular Thai canteen Singburi is to be reborn in Shoreditch under a new guise this spring. Run for many years as a family-operated, cash-only BYO that was packed out for every service, the Leytonstone venue announced its closure in November for an open-ended “sabbatical”. Now chef Sirichai Kularbwong (left in photo), the son […]
American luxury lifestyle brand RH – fka Restoration Hardware – is planning to open an eating, drinking and shopping complex in Mayfair incorporating a restaurant, a coffee shop, three bars and a rooftop terrace. The company has submitted plans to Westminster council to transform three Grade II-listed buildings off Savile Row, previously occupied by Abercrombie […]
