An upmarket Armenian restaurant is set to launch in Mayfair later this month. Lusin, meaning ‘moon’, opens its doors in Hay Hill on 31 October and will accommodate up to 100 diners on two floors. The restaurant originated in Riyadh in 2011, and now has three further branches in Saudi Arabia; this will be its […]
Luke Findlay is launching a second branch of his ‘traditionally inauthentic’ ramen concept Supa Ya today, in Peckham’s Rye Lane. The former Berber & Q head chef developed the idea as a supper club in his Hackney flat, mixing Japanese ramen with classic British and European flavours, before road-testing it as a pop-up and opening […]
London’s first new West End theatre for 50 years opens tomorrow (15 October), which should increase footfall in the centre of the city still suffering from the ravages of the pandemic. The Soho Place theatre – or @sohoplace as owners Nimax rather irritatingly prefer it to be known – will have a 70-cover restaurant called Stars, with […]
Indian restaurant Mathura in the Old Westminster Fire Station reopens today (11 October) under a new name as Yaatra – less than a year after its launch. The venue in Greycoat Place served its final meals as Mathura on Saturday night. Mathura was billed as high-profile chef Atul Kochhar’s most ambitious venture yet when it […]
Ambitious new restaurant St Barts opens today near Smithfield market, on the edge of the City of London. It is the third venue from three friends who have progressed from pop-ups to the tiny Nest in Hackney and the slightly larger Fenn in Fulham – both of which won rave reviews and high ratings for their […]
The century-old Paris caviar house Petrossian is to open its first London deli and restaurant in South Kensington in November. The business prepared the way for its UK expansion by opening a processing laboratory in Chessington last year. Armenian brothers Melkoum and Mouchegh Petrossian founded the business in Paris in 1920, and prospered through their […]
Duck + Champagne, a new restaurant concept serving a menu of duck dishes from around the world accompanied by a list of champagnes from small independent growers, opened this week in the Chelsea Funhouse, formerly the landmark World’s End pub on the King’s Road. The menu runs from duck charcuterie and duck bao buns to […]
Fresh from his success at Arcade Food Hall, green-fingered chef Luke Farrell opens his latest Thai-inspired restaurant, Speedboat Bar, in Chinatown this month. Named after the boats which race along the klongs or canals of Bangkok, the venue aims to capture the food and atmosphere of the late-night dens of the Thai capital’s Chinatown. Luke […]
A high-end Japanese omakase restaurant with a Middle Eastern twist is scheduled to open in Marylebone by the end of September. Mayha, in Chiltern Street, is the first UK opening from Beirut’s Nothing But Love group, although chefs Jurek Wasio and Yuichi Nahayo have both previously worked in London’s Yashin Sushi and Ocean House. The […]
An ambitious new restaurant combining Japanese izakaya-style dining with low-intervention wines and their equivalent unfiltered nigori (cloudy) sake has opened in Embassy Gardens, the development adjacent to the new US Embassy in Nine Elms which has transformed the area between Battersea and Vauxhall. Evernight is the first restaurant from Singaporean chef Lynus Lim, formerly of […]
