Leading Indian chef Vivek Singh opens his first restaurant in northern England next week – a branch of his Cinnamon Kitchen at the Queens Hotel in Leeds city centre. Facing Leeds station, the new venture takes its inspiration from the Himsagar Express, a weekly rail service that crosses India from north to south, a distance […]
A restaurant that aims to raise the profile of Ukrainian gastronomy is to launch in Notting Hill next week. The first UK project from entrepreneur Polina Sychova, Sino will showcase the cooking of chef Eugene Korolev, the president of Ukraine’s Bocuse D’Or team. The restaurant takes its name from the Ukrainian word for hay (pronounced […]
The team behind highly rated Italo-Japanese fusion specialist Angelina in Dalston is to open a bigger, more relaxed pasta and grill restaurant in Shoreditch next week. Called Osteria Angelina, the venue is in the new Norton Folgate development next to Shoreditch station. It follows in the footsteps of the original Angelina, which opened in 2019 […]
More than 10,000 diners have sampled the vast new Royal Nawaab restaurant in the ‘Stockport Pyramid’ building on the edge of Manchester, in a two-week soft launch ahead of its formal opening this month. The glass pyramid was the head office of the Co-Op Bank for 23 years until 2018, and has been converted at […]
Adolfo de Cecco, chef-patron of Hackney superstar Casa Fofò, is to open a neighbourhood restaurant and wine bar in Stoke Newington next week called Bianca’s. Named after his daughter, Bianca’s is expected to follow a similar approach to its big sister, focusing on seasonal British ingredients from small-scale producers, but at a lower price-point. It […]
An ambitious neighbourhood bar and bistro called Sonder opens in Cardiff on Easter Monday, in the venue on Canton’s Llandaff Road that operated as a cafe called Outpost until this month. The new restaurant is the brainchild of Jake Lewis, until recently executive chef of Pasture steakhouses in Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham, with top Welsh […]
The couple behind Bristol neighbourhood restaurant COR are launching their second venture in the city this week – an Italian spot called Ragù, in Wapping Wharf. Mark and Karen Chapman opened COR in North Street in October 2022, winning praise in this year’s Harden’s guide as a “stunning neighbourhood restaurant” serving Mediterranean-influenced food with “shades of […]
A restaurant dating back to 1757 will launch its first outpost in London’s Chinatown next week – introducing a new variety of noodles to the capital. Songhelou in Wardour Street is descended from a restaurant that opened during the Qing dynasty in Suzhou, a city about 50 miles west of Shanghai. The long-lived Qianlong Emperor is […]
Leeds favourite The Swine That Dines reopens next week under a new name and in new, larger premises – as the Swine Bistro in Headingley. The original Swine, a former sandwich shop on North Street in the city centre, has won increasing fame for founders Stu and Jo Myers in its 12 years – scoring an […]
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 […]
