An ambitious Brazilian/Japanese restaurant opens in Newcastle’s Quayside next week, which its founders believe has the potential for national and international expansion. Nipo takes its name from the Nipo-Brasileiro community of São Paulo, said to the be the largest concentration of Japanese people outside Japan, and is the brainchild of the team behind Newcastle’s Rio […]
Highly rated Newcastle chef Kenny Atkinson makes his London debut next week with the opening of Solaya, a high-rise restaurant on the 25th floor of the art’otel in Hoxton. Kenny opened the House for Tides on Newcastle’s historic Quayside 11 years ago and followed up with the more refined Solstice next door, which was immediately […]
Newcastle Quayside wine-bar and restaurant St Vincent will re-open next week – three years after closing down when the Covid pandemic struck. Owner Terry Laybourne (pictured centre, with Martin Malinowski, left, and Matt Clarkson), has already reopened the other venues in his 21 Hospitality Group. He said: “It feels wonderful to be finally re-opening St Vincent […]