Internet chef Thomas Straker has opened a deli and casual restaurant called Acre, a few doors from his flagship Straker’s on Golborne Road in Notting Hill. Straker’s is temporarily closed following a fire in its ventilation system, but is popping up for three weeks at nearby Brasseria on Westbourne Grove. Thomas is pitching Acre as […]
Leading Indian chef Vivek Singh opens his first restaurant in northern England next week – a branch of his Cinnamon Kitchen at the Queens Hotel in Leeds city centre. Facing Leeds station, the new venture takes its inspiration from the Himsagar Express, a weekly rail service that crosses India from north to south, a distance […]
The team behind highly rated Italo-Japanese fusion specialist Angelina in Dalston is to open a bigger, more relaxed pasta and grill restaurant in Shoreditch next week. Called Osteria Angelina, the venue is in the new Norton Folgate development next to Shoreditch station. It follows in the footsteps of the original Angelina, which opened in 2019 […]
Chef Dom Taylor is back with a new project, Marvee’s Food Shop in Ladbroke Grove – a follow-up to The Good Front Room, his successful 10-month residency that showcased Caribbean cooking in the elegant Palm Court at the Langham hotel in Portland Place. Named in honour of his mother, Marveline, the new project is a more […]
Claude and Lucy Bosi are launching a second branch of their hit French restaurant Josephine next week – this time it’s in Marylebone, and takes its cues from Paris instead of Lyons. Set in the former Daylesford Organic site on Blandford Street, the new venue is inspired by the 19th-century brasseries of the French capital, […]
Adolfo de Cecco, chef-patron of Hackney superstar Casa Fofò, is to open a neighbourhood restaurant and wine bar in Stoke Newington next week called Bianca’s. Named after his daughter, Bianca’s is expected to follow a similar approach to its big sister, focusing on seasonal British ingredients from small-scale producers, but at a lower price-point. It […]
Jason Atherton’s former Mayfair flagship, Pollen Street Social, reopened without advance publicity this week as Motcomb’s Tavern, the latest incarnation of the long-running establishment that closed in Belgravia earlier this year. The move ends Jason’s association with the site where he launched his stellar career as a restaurateur in his own right, after leaving Gordon […]
Authentic Cantonese/dim sum chain Duddell’s (with 10 sites across Hong Kong) opened its first UK branch, in St Thomas Church in London Bridge, this week. It is the first time the celebrated restaurant has opened outside of HK, where the original was founded in 2013. Set in the historic St Thomas Church, Duddell’s London showcases authentic Cantonese […]
Carl Clarke has secured a second site for his “fun and buzzy” little fried chicken specialist Chick ‘n’ Sours, which opened on Dalston’s main drag last year. The new Seven Dials venue will open in mid-September and have a short, punchy menu of free-range herb-fed fried chicken alongside the restaurant’s trademark sour cocktails – an “excellent […]
Handmade pizzas and more than 80 ciders, sourced from the West Country, will be on offer when The Stable opens its doors in Whitechapel on 21 April. This will be the 14th venue for the popular restaurant chain, founded in Dorset in 2009, and its first site in London. The Stable, owned by Nikki and Richard […]
