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 […]
Southwest London restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas is crowdfunding towards the launch next month of a second branch of her Putney restaurant Home SW15 in her home village of Barnes. Supporters are being asked to ‘buy a brick’ for £100 to be displayed at Home SW13, in return for an invitation to the soft launch in early […]
An ambitious new riverside gastropub is opening in Barnes next month from locally raised Joe Grossman, the founder of the Patty & Bun burger chain, who has put together a crack team to revive The Waterman’s Arms. The mid-Victorian pub is on a prominent corner, but has struggled in recent years first as a branch […]
A new neighbourhood restaurant bringing “sexy but healthy” food to Barnes opens next week. The Farmer’s Mistress has taken the White Hart Lane site long known for its branch of Annie’s, and more recently the short-lived Camile Thai. Founder Joanna Gascoigne, who already has a Farmer’s Mistress branch in Battersea, has transformed the interior of […]
