Jason Atherton has opened his new Mayfair flagship restaurant, Row on 5, pitching it this week as the summit of his career: “my legacy … my life’s work as a chef“. It is the fifth and final new venture he has launched in a reshuffle of his London operations over the past six months, beginning […]
Chef Isaac McHale (left in photo), co-founder of Shoreditch gastronomic powerhouse the Clove Clove, is to open a more informal offshoot just around the corner called Bar Valette, serving simple dishes inspired by French and Spanish coastal cuisine. Scheduled to open next month in the former premises of Two Lights (also backed by the team […]
A new bakery-cum-restaurant intriguingly named Don’t Tell Dad will be unveiled next week in Queen’s Park, west London, with meals offered at half price during a soft launch for bookings between 20 December and 12 January.. The venue marks the realisation of a long-held dream for Daniel Land (pictured centre left), co-founder of Italian fast-food […]
Veteran celeb chef Aldo Zilli makes his return to the London restaurant scene next week with the launch on Tuesday (10 December) of Undercroft in Mayfair, a dramatic new dining venue set in the crypt of historic St George’s church off Hanover Square. The venue was heavily trailed earlier this year as the site where […]
Babbo, the former Mayfair Italian restaurant with footballing connections, completes its transfer to St John’s Wood next week, while its fellow glossy Italian Bocconcino opens a seafood spinoff in the Strand called Osteria del Mare (pictured). Launching on Monday, Osteria del Mare takes inspiration from the Tuscan coastal resort of Forte dei Marmi, with ex-Barrafina […]
Less than three months after closing his highly rated Islington restaurant 12:51, chef James Cochran is opening a new venture nearby – a ‘bistro pub’ called The Brave in a revamped Essex Road boozer. “We’re creating something really special here at The Brave,” says James. “Given all the love we received from locals when we closed […]
A new Lebanese restaurant from industry veteran Pierre Hobeika opened this week in Barnes – a part of southwest London with no other Middle Eastern cuisine available. Omm, meaning mother in Arabic, has taken over a generous corner site in White Hart Lane long occupied by local favourite Annie’s, and more recently by the short-lived Farmer’s […]
Silva, a new ‘day-to-night’ restaurant, opened yesterday in a Mayfair mews from first-time restaurateur Daria Grebenyuk. She recruited experienced hands led by head chef Slawomir Sawicki (ex-of Eric Chavot, Galvin at La Chapelle, Arts Club) and former Sir Terence Conran partner Peter Prescott to bring the project to fruition. Silva – from the Latin word for […]
The team behind Berkshire’s The Woodspeen will tomorrow open a contemporary restaurant and cocktail bar called The Braywood on the site of the historic Royal Oak in Paley Street near Maidenhead. Formerly owned by chat-show host Michael Parkinson, the Royal Oak was run by his son Nick for two decades and in 2018 hosted the […]
