A glossy new Cantonese restaurant called Dim Sum Library opens in Covent Garden next week, from the Hong Kong-based Aqua group, the people behind Aqua Shard and Hutong. Dim Sum Library has taken over the Long Acre address of the group’s former Italian restaurant Luci. Browsers will be able to watch the chefs in action […]
A theatrical live-fire restaurant with an open kitchen launched in Spitalfields this week, a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street station – a first dining venue from publican and music festival entrepreneur Rob Star of Electric Star pubs. Firestarter shares an entrance on Middlesex Street with its stablemate The Star by Liverpool Street pub/bar next door, […]
Former prisoner Nathaniel Mortley has opened his first permanent restaurant – 2010 by Natty Can Cook, in Herne Hill, south London, which offers a refined take on Pan-Caribbean cuisine. Nathaniel served a two-and-a-half-year sentence in Brixton prison, less than a mile away, where he worked in prisoner-operated restaurant The Clink – for which he remains an ambassador. […]
A high-end food market focusing on prime ingredients such as caviar and wagyu with separate European and Japanese dining counters opens next week on the King’s Road in Chelsea. Arthur’s Market is the brainchild of Artur Voloshin, the entrepreneur behind high-end Belgravia pub The Prince Arthur, which opened earlier this year with a fresh seafood […]
An extravagantly retro-designed Italian trattoria that originated in Paris has opened its first London branch, in the Hoxton hotel. Il Bambini Club is billed as ‘a vibrant escape filled with fresh pasta, pizza, and plenty of spritzes’, and is open from 7am for breakfast until 11pm. Founded by restaurant group Paris Society, it has venues […]
Two London institutions combine next week with the opening of a new café from the St John stable at the London Review Bookshop, around the corner from the British Museum in Bloomsbury. Launching on Wednesday 1st October, the new venture replaces the London Review Cake Shop that has been sorely missed by regulars since closing […]
The fast-expanding Public House Group soft-launched its latest London pub this week – The Hart in Marylebone, behind the Wallace Collection and next door to the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse. Known as The Flowerhouse for the past four years, The Hart has three storeys with a bar at ground-floor level leading up to a restaurant on […]
After more than 30 years as leader of the gastronomic pack in the West Country, Michael Caines has made his London debut as a chef-restaurateur this week at the Stafford hotel in St James’s. The new venture brings a flavour of his native region, with the menu name-checking fish and seafood from Brixham in Devon […]
Two new London restaurants which open on the same day next week have been named in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth – Lilibet’s in Mayfair (pictured) and The Elizabeth in Belgravia – in the same month that the £20,000 a night Elizabeth House penthouse suite was unveiled at the new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Grosvenor Square. […]
Swedish chef Joakim ‘Jokke’ Almqvist launches the latest edition of Punk Royale, his “messy, no-bullshit” take on Nordic fine dining, in London today (12 September) – vowing “we’re not here to play it safe“. Jokke founded Punk Royale in Stockholm in 2015 and followed up with branches in Copenhagen and Oslo. The new venue, just off […]
