An ambitious modern Indian restaurant opens in Putney today with the aim of providing high-end Mayfair-style dining in southwest London. Raaz is the debut restaurant from chef Imran Mansuri, who trained at Benares and Tamarind, was part of the launch team at Jamavar and was most recently executive head chef at Kalomba. He says: “We’re […]
Clare Smyth has announced plans to open a “luxury bistro” in Chelsea this autumn called Corenucopia – a play on her Notting Hill flagship, Core. The new venture will take over a site close to Sloane Square on Holbein Place, which was most recently occupied by Tabisco, a short-lived Italian steakhouse. Clare already has another big […]
Dominic Hamdy has emerged as one of the most dynamic young restaurateurs in London, having opened five restaurants in seven years. Over lunch at his latest venue, Canal in Westbourne Grove, he told Harden’s why he believes hospitality is so important today – and why he’s in it for the long haul HARDEN’S: Dominic, congratulations, this […]
The vaunted Chancery Rosewood hotel in the former US Embassy in Mayfair is now on a soft opening ahead of its formal launch on September 1st – without the promised revival of Richard Caring’s flagship restaurant Le Caprice. Following a seven-year conversion that reputedly cost £1 billion, the 144-suite hotel has unveiled its initial eating […]
A new spate of pizzeria openings is sweeping across the country this summer – and they’re taking their inspiration from the US in general and NYC in particular as much as from Naples. First up comes Ace Pizza, near Victorian Park in Hackney, which launches next Monday, 28 July – the first stand-alone site for Rachel […]
Two new Parisian-inspired restaurants opened in London this week, confirming that our longest-lasting gastronomic love affair is also this year’s hottest hospitality trend. First out of the blocks on Tuesday was 74 Duke in Mayfair, from the team behind Supernova, with a brasserie menu including the likes of Terrine de foie gras à la Chartreuse; […]
Former Pied à Terre head chef Asimakis Chaniotis has opened his first solo London restaurant – Myrtos, on the former site of Aubaine in Old Brompton Road, South Kensington. The latest upmarket Greek restaurant to open in London, Myrtos is named after a famous white marble beach on the island of Kefalonia, where Asimakis passed his […]
Alex Grant and Simon Shand, former members of the team at Shoreditch bistro Leroy, which closed down last year, have joined forces to open a new restaurant on the same corner site. Duchy takes its name – and its gastronomic cues – from the Duchy of Savoy, the historical borderland between the south of France and northwest […]
Chef Dom Taylor is back with a new project, Marvee’s Food Shop in Ladbroke Grove – a follow-up to The Good Front Room, his successful 10-month residency that showcased Caribbean cooking in the elegant Palm Court at the Langham hotel in Portland Place. Named in honour of his mother, Marveline, the new project is a more […]
Claude and Lucy Bosi are launching a second branch of their hit French restaurant Josephine next week – this time it’s in Marylebone, and takes its cues from Paris instead of Lyons. Set in the former Daylesford Organic site on Blandford Street, the new venue is inspired by the 19th-century brasseries of the French capital, […]
