Highly rated chef Alex Dilling is set to open a first restaurant under his own name in London’s historic Café Royal this summer. The first-floor restaurant just off Piccadilly Circus is intimate, with just 34 covers, but grand in ambition. Making his announcement on Instagram, Alex said: “It is with great excitement and emotion I […]
Dishoom, the retro Bombay-themed all-day cafe group, has announced plans for an enormous new branch in the Wood Wharf development at Canary Wharf, expected to open by the end of the year. The 8,800 sq ft venue will seat 355 diners over two floors and a terrace, giving it an even bigger capacity than the […]
Veteran Australian chef David Thompson has announced his return to the London dining scene, 10 years after the closure of Nahm, the ground-breaking high-quality Thai restaurant he operated from the chic Halkin hotel in Belgravia for a decade. A branch of Long Chim, the casual Thai restaurant he opened first in Perth in 2015, is […]
A new high-end Chinese restaurant is set to open near St James’s Park this month where no expense will be spared to offer the most luxurious ingredients. The Noble Palace, a stone’s throw from Buck House, will serve Peking duck with a choice of Beluga caviar, abalone, or black truffle pancake. Its menu will serve […]
Roti King, the legendary Malaysian curryhouse near Euston station, has opened second site in the Battersea Power Station development overlooking the Thames. The new branch is under an arch of the Victoria station railway bridge, where its neighbours include the Battersea Brewery and a boutique cinema. This salubrious setting is in stark contrast to the […]
Valentina, a long-established family-run Italian deli in East Sheen, is reopening as a restaurant this weekend at its original location – familiar to thousands of motorists who pass on a busy southwest London stretch of the South Circular. A new deli has opened near the local Waitrose supermarket. Owned and operated by three generations of […]
Wimbledon independent neighbourhood restaurant The White Onion has closed down after seven years, to be replaced by The Black Sheep, the latest addition to the Gladwin brothers’ fast-growing group Local & Wild. The White Onion’s managing director, Beggy Ashurov, blamed the closure on the “difficult circumstances surrounding Covid-19 and Brexit that our restaurant has been […]
A rooftop bar with 360-degree views across the City is to open next month in the former House of Fraser department store in King William Street, close to the Monument and London Bridge – a building long earmarked for a new City branch of The Wolseley. Wagtail, from Maven Leisure, will also feature a downstairs terrace […]
An ambitious new restaurant serving a menu of “micro-seasonal” dishes opened this week in an 18th-century baroque mansion hidden among the high-rise modern buildings of Hammersmith roundabout, a few steps from the bus and tube stations. Cellar occupies the ground floor and terrace of grade II listed Bradmore House, which was transformed three years ago […]
A well-connected watering hole in Notting Hill is to reopen as a Scottish restaurant and whisky bar later this month. The Walmer Castle in Ledbury Road – a hop and skip away from Brett Graham’s celebrated restaurant The Ledbury – will serve classic Scottish meals in its ground-floor dining room and more than 100 whiskies in […]
