Three-year-old pop-up The Oystermen is to open its first permanent venue in Covent Garden this summer. The Oystermen seafood bar and kitchen will be in foodie hot-spot Henrietta Street, where Ollie Dabbous has just opened his new restaurant in The Henrietta hotel and Gregory Marchand opened Frenchie last year. Unusually, The Oystermen is a business that […]

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Ollie Dabbous has closed Barnyard, his casual dining restaurant in Fitzrovia, ahead the major shake-up he is planning with his business partner Oskar Kinberg (left in picture). This follows the announcement that their flagship fine-dining restaurant, Dabbous, will shut up shop this summer in preparation for what will be a “major undertaking” under a new […]

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Dabbous, the Fitzrovia restaurant that opened to rapturous acclaim five years ago, is to close this summer as chef Ollie Dabbous (right in picture) and his business partner Oskar Kinberg, who runs the basement bar, prepare their next venture. No details have yet been released for what Dabbous says will be a “major undertaking” with […]

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We review Barnyard (Harden’s) The food at Ollie Dabous’s new Fitzrovia restaurant is done to a ‘high standard, at reasonable prices’.   Stevie Parle opens Rotorino in Dalston (Harden’s) Dock Kitchen chef’s new Italian osteria is backed by Street Feast man Jonathan Downey.   Grace Dent reviews Marcus, post refurb (Evening Standard) She’s still not […]

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Neapolitan or Sicilian? Everything you need to know about New York pizza (Eater) Ms Maschler left ‘happy as a clam’ by Camberwell Arms (Evening Standard) New look, (sort-of) new name: Marcus Wareing reopening at the Berkley as MARCUS (Harden’s) Chancellor knocks penny off a pint (BBC News) We say goodbye to some old-timer London restaurants […]

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