Much loved seafood barge-restaurant the Grand Duchess is back in action at Paddington Basin – this time hosting the latest branch of South African/Portuguese-inspired SeaGarden & Grill. The venue was run by the London Shell Co for five years until 2024, when siblings Harry & Leah Lobek came ashore to consolidate their operations on dry land […]
The hit-making Public House Group opened their latest pub this week – The Horses in Clerkenwell, which comes galloping hard on the heels of The Hart, which opened last year in Marylebone, joining a four-year-old stable that includes The Hero, The Fat Badger and The Pelican. The Horses is primarily a dining venue, with a strong […]
A Sri Lankan entrepreneur has opened his first international outpost in Canary Wharf – Prawn Crazy, which he has ambitions to turn into a global brand. Apinash Sivagumaaran launched Isso (meaning prawn in Sinhala) ten years ago as a 16-seater dining spot in central Colombo, and has grown it to a group of five across […]
Seafood specialist Prawn on the Lawn has closed its London venue to concentrate on its Cornish operations, while highly rated Stockport outfit Cantaloupe is switching to a new concept called Bar Caput. Prawn on the Lawn has been one of the capital’s most in-demand restaurants at two different addresses near Highbury Corner since its 2013 […]
A roadside food truck selling world-class seafood on Scotland’s far north west coast has become a proper restaurant with the installation of a shipping container to provide year-round indoor dining. Set above Scourie bay on the scenic NC500 route just south of Cape Wrath, Crofter’s Kitchen opened in 2024 as a seasonal outdoor venue on […]
Long-running Italian restaurant Sale e Pepe is launching its second venue next week – a seafood specialist at The Langham hotel in Portland Place, just off Oxford Circus. Sale e Pepe Mare has taken over the hotel’s main restaurant space, which operated as Roux at the Landau until 2023; that was followed by a French restaurant […]
Ed and Ollie Templeton, the brothers behind influential chef residency showcase Carousel in Fitzrovia, will next week open an ambitious Mexican seafood restaurant on the same site. Cometa – pitched as a “contemporary take on Mexican seafood, seen through a distinctly British lens” – is taking over the space currently occupied by the Carousel wine bar. Ed […]
Two new London restaurants which open on the same day next week have been named in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth – Lilibet’s in Mayfair (pictured) and The Elizabeth in Belgravia – in the same month that the £20,000 a night Elizabeth House penthouse suite was unveiled at the new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Grosvenor Square. […]
Mitch Tonks has launched his tenth Rockfish restaurant, in Salcombe, with another scheduled to open in Sidmouth this October. The two Devon openings follow another at Lyme Regis in Dorset two months ago. And in a busy week for Mitch, he has also launched a three-month residency of his Dartmouth flagship The Seahorse at Brown’s […]
A new seafood bistro and cocktail bar called Noisy Oyster is to launch in Shoreditch next week, from the duo behind Soho grill Firebird. The restaurant promises to match modern seafood dishes with signature mini martinis. The seafood menu ranges from a raw bar and whole grilled fish to share to dry-aged tuna cheeseburger with […]
