Cornish seafood supremo Nathan Outlaw is to close his celebrated flagship Outlaw’s New Road in Port Isaac next year. The venue is the highest-rated fish specialist on the newly published 2026 Harden’s 100 list of the UK’s best restaurants, and is ranked at number 8 overall. Its last service on March 28 will be closely […]
MasterChef: The Professionals winner Alex Webb opens his first restaurant as patron next week – seafood-focused Orion in Wimbledon Village. Classically trained Alex worked in top London kitchens including Hélène Darroze at the Connaught, Dinner by Heston and the Savoy before his 2020 MasterChef win, followed by a residency under his own name at the Intercontinental […]
Seafood specialist chef Tom Brown will unveil a new restaurant at The Capital hotel in Knightsbridge later this year, returning to the kitchen where he made his London debut a decade ago as head chef for Nathan Outlaw. Originally from Cornwall, Tom ran the restaurant for two years before leaving to set up his own […]
Rick Stein is offering a menu at 1975 prices to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. The menu features starters and desserts priced in pence, with shellfish soup at 50p, ragout de coquilles St Jacques et turbot a la crème de basilic at 65p and raspberry bavarois for 30p, while the […]
An upmarket pub and restaurant boasting a Basque chef, its own branded caviar and state-of-the-art draught Guinness opens in Belgravia next week. The Prince Arthur, in Pimlico Road, also has a fishmonger counter in the bar offering seafood from Spain and Cornwall to eat in or take home. The venue is divided into ‘The Pub […]
Highly rated Edinburgh seafood fixture Ondine is to close temporarily at the end of the year, before reopening at an as-yet undisclosed location in the city centre – with a second branch launching in St Andrews on March 1st. The move has been forced on its founder, chef Roy Brett, by protracted work on the building […]
Babbo, the former Mayfair Italian restaurant with footballing connections, completes its transfer to St John’s Wood next week, while its fellow glossy Italian Bocconcino opens a seafood spinoff in the Strand called Osteria del Mare (pictured). Launching on Monday, Osteria del Mare takes inspiration from the Tuscan coastal resort of Forte dei Marmi, with ex-Barrafina […]
Mitch Tonks (right in picture) is taking over the site of Mark Hix’s (left) Oyster and Fish House in Lyme Regis, which he will relaunch next year as part of his growing Rockfish group. Mark will close the restaurant after 16 years on 7 December. He lost his London restaurant empire during the Covid pandemic, […]
One of the capital’s most popular fish and seafood restaurant concepts of the past decade, London Shell Co, is to abandon its distinctive floating barges, switching focus to dry land. The Grand Duchess static barge moored in Paddington Basin will run its last service tomorrow (28 September), while the Prince Regent will make its final […]
