Birmingham-Sicilian chef Angelina Adamo launches her first bricks-and-mortar restaurant tomorrow (Saturday 7 February) – Vieni, in the new Goodsyard development in the city’s Jewellery Quarter. A graduate of University College Birmingham, Angelina trained at Simpson’s in Edgbaston and runs her own private dining company, Tutto Apposto, which also operates the Circle Lounge in the Birmingham Hippodrome. […]
A Sri Lankan restaurant that started out in a converted horsebox launches next week in its first permanent premises – the former Hanoi Bike Shop venue in Glasgow’s West End. Kochchi, named after a Sri Lankan variety of chilli, has been one of the most popular kitchens at the Bonnie and Wild food hall in Edinburgh […]
A venue billed as the first new pub on the King’s Road in Chelsea for 100 years and named after a famous British naval victory 220 years ago has opened this week. The Trafalgar has taken over the ground floor and basement of a Grade II-listed Edwardian bank building, owned by the Cadogan Estate and […]
Patty & Bun founder Joe Grossman launches his second dining pub today (Friday 10 October) – The Shaston Arms in Soho, a follow-up to the successful Waterman’s Arms which he opened in Barnes two years ago. The Shaston’s kitchen is led by former Ducksoup head chef Sam Andrews, who is also behind the Waterman’s modern European […]
Former Fat Duck group chef Matt Larcombe will tomorrow open his Wild Restaurant in Berkhamsted near Hemel Hempstead, offering a hyper-seasonal menu that celebrates regenerative farming and zero-waste principles. With its own farm close by, Wild will operate on a ‘closed-loop’ system in which produce is grown from seed and leftovers return from the kitchen […]
Highly rated northwest-based chef Andrew Sheridan is to open a new all-day restaurant in Chester – the city where he kicked off his career. Andrew has taken over the former Da Noi restaurant on Bridge Street and will relaunch it next month as Noted. Best known for his Liverpool flagship Restaurant 8 by Andrew Sheridan, the […]
A Thai restaurant whose “unapologetically spicy” cooking is based around pastes pounded by hand using a pestle and mortar opens tomorrow in Peckham, from a pair of chefs who have worked in some of London’s most exciting Thai kitchens. Kruk – a mash-up of Thai words ‘klook’ meaning to mix or stir and ‘krok’ meaning mortar […]
An upscale modern Greek restaurant has opened in Birmingham’s Colmore business district, having taken over a former All Bar One corner site in the Grade II listed Cornwall Buildings. Cylla – named after the man-eating sea monster of Ancient Greek myth, also spelt Scylla – aims to present a “sophisticated approach to Mediterranean dining”, with classic Hellenic […]
A vibey contemporary Japanese restaurant whose two floors are linked by a dramatic poured-concrete staircase opened in Soho this week. Moi (pronounced to rhyme with ‘boy’), in Wardour Street, is the first launch from an ambitious new company, Mad Restaurants, founded by entrepreneur Artem Login of the international café brand L’Eto. Former Gordon Ramsay chef […]
First-time publican Kelly Shaw has left behind a career in cyber-security to relaunch a 16th-century Hampshire village pub as a modern countryside destination. The Ship in Bishop’s Sutton, a mile from the market town of Alresford, opens later this month, taking bookings from next week for tables in its 44-cover main space or a private […]
