The duo behind Italian-inspired restaurant Legare at Shad Thames near Tower Bridge have opened a new wine bar, bottle shop and restaurant almost next door called Luna. Former Barrafina manager Jay Patel (left in picture) and ex-Trullo chef Matt Beardmore (right) have earned a strong reputation in the six years since they opened Legare, which […]
The Duck and Rice, the Soho pub that combines Cantonese food with British boozer, has opened a first spin-off – a full decade after its launch – in the redeveloped Battersea power station. The new branch is twice the size of the original, seating 185, and instead of looking like a spruced-up old pub is […]
A new restaurant opens next week on the Sandridge Barton wine estate beside the River Dart in Devon’s South Hams. Roam promises to offer ‘bold, bistro-style’ cooking rooted in European and Basque traditions, with a menu that changes regularly to ‘reflect what’s best right now’. Roam has replaced restaurant Circa at the same venue, on […]
An ambitious new Middle Eastern restaurant with cocktails from Mr Lyan Studio has opened in St Christopher’s Place, just off Oxford Street in London’s West End. Noreen, from Bahrain’s long-established Al Abraaj restaurant group, showcases dishes from the Arabian peninsula to the Levant. Mehdi Hani, head chef at Harrods for the past four years, has […]
Ed Templeton of Carousel (left in picture) has linked up with actor and fellow Highbury resident Theo James (right) to launch a Rome-inspired local restaurant called Lupa, after the she wolf who nursed the ancient city’s founders, Romulus and Remus. The kitchen is led by Naz Hassan (centre), the Bangladeshi-born former head chef at Pidgin […]
East Anglia chef Mark Poynton has relaunched his restaurant-with-rooms at Fen Ditton on the edge of Cambridge under new backers and a new name as Ancient Shepherds with Mark Poynton. He operated the venue – a former village pub dating from 1580 – as MJP @ The Shepherds for five years until May this year, when […]
A new restaurant called Canal opens next week from the team behind Crispin, Bar Crispin and Bistro Freddie, overlooking the Grand Union Canal in Westbourne Park. In the former HQ of the London Taxi Drivers’ Association, now the Mason & Frith hotel, the all-day restaurant promises to “celebrate the best of British and European produce […]
Top chefs Tom Brown and Brad Carter have teamed up to launch a surf-and-turf restaurant – or as they otherwise put it “a traditional steakhouse with a coastal twist” – in King’s Cross. Island opens next week at Mare Street Market in Lewis Cubitt Square. Tom, who made his name with east London seafood specialists Cornerstone […]
Ryan Jacovides is expanding his Pomus group in Kent with the launch of a new restaurant in Folkestone next month, just weeks after opening a mini-spinoff kiosk called Pom on Margate Harbour Arm. He opened the original Pomus in Margate a year ago. The new restaurant, wine bar and bottle shop has taken over the […]
Mitch Tonks has launched his tenth Rockfish restaurant, in Salcombe, with another scheduled to open in Sidmouth this October. The two Devon openings follow another at Lyme Regis in Dorset two months ago. And in a busy week for Mitch, he has also launched a three-month residency of his Dartmouth flagship The Seahorse at Brown’s […]
