West Country seafood impresario Mitch Tonks has opened a new outdoor fish and craft beer bar in Plymouth, adjacent to his Rockfish restaurant on Rope Walk, overlooking Plymouth Sound. The Sardine Bar serves fried fish and chips and curried mushy peas, alongside Mount Bay sardines from the range of tinned local seafood Tonks introduced during […]
Crabshakk, the pioneer of high-quality fish and seafood at everyday prices in Glasgow, is launching a second, much bigger branch in a listed former garage in the city’s West End. Crabshakk Botanics in Vinicombe Street opens next Friday, 22 April. The original Finnieston venue has won high ratings since it opened in 2009, and is […]
One of Brighton’s – and the country’s – oldest fish and seafood restaurants, English’s, is being marketed for sale at £1.75 million, having been owned by the Leigh-Jones family since 1945. Praised in the 2022 Harden’s guide as a “usually buzzing venue serving great fish dishes, including lovely lobster Thermidor”, it has been a fixture of […]
The team behind The Oystermen seafood bar in Covent Garden are scheduled to open their follow-up this month – Walter’s in West Dulwich, which they are pitching as a neighbourhood restaurant serving modern British cooking. Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell launched The Oystermen in 2017, winning acclaim for the quality of both food and service. […]
A new sustainable seafood venture, Off The Hook, is scheduled to open in Wapping on January 6 as a joint venture from chef Neil Wagner (pictured) and fish supplier Shaun Henderson. The restaurant will offer takeaway as well as sit-down meals and also have a “fish butchery” specialising in dry-aged fish. Headline dishes will include […]
The Oystermen restaurant is to relaunch on 22 October after extending the site to accommodate a higher level of capacity. The seafood specialist now occupies both 31 and 32 Henrietta Street in Covent Garden, London, as co-founders Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton look to sure up the location permanently and provide a more solid footing […]
Bucket, a new seafood restaurant and bar, is to open on Westbourne Grove in late May. Sustainably sourced prawns, whitebait, calamari, mussels and more are served in (you guessed it) buckets at this seafood shack on the Bayswater/Notting Hill border. The mid-priced, social dining concept has been developed by a team led by husband and wife […]
On Monday 21 May, Nathan Outlaw will bring his Fish Kitchen from Port Isaac to his London outpost, Outlaw’s at The Capital in Knightsbridge. Along with Fish Kitchen’s head chef Tim Barnes and The Capital’s head chef Andrew Sawyer, Nathan will be whipping up a seafood storm, creating a menu of original small plates synonymous with […]
Tomorrow (21 April) sees the launch of London’s inaugural Oyster Week – an event founded by ‘oyster evangelist’ Katy Davidson (AKA The Oyster Lady), and dedicated to promoting sustainability and highlighting the abundant environmental and health benefits of bivalves. Among 25 top London venues taking part are Bentley’s, Noble Rot, Bonnie Gull, Randall & Aubin […]
“Peerless” female chef, Marianne Lumb, wins Top Gastronomic award – Corbin & King recognised for their lifetime achievement • Top Newcomer Jamavar (“not just one of the best Indians in town, but among the best of any cuisine”) narrowly beats 108 Garage • Borough Market’s Kappacasein (“elevating melted cheese into high art”) is the capital’s […]
