Popular Shoreditch brunch spot Penkul & Banks has closed just six months after it first opened. The cafe-restaurant launched on the former site of Beard to Tail in Curtain Road this summer and was consistently busy at weekends when bottomless prosecco and Bloody Marys were the order of the day. Indeed our reporters noted that you […]
We don’t often report on the comings and going of chefs, but news that J Sheekey are bidding farewell to head chef Richard Kirkwood after five years seemed particularly noteworthy. Richard Caring’s restaurant and oyster bar has long been a favourite with our reporters, consistently London’s most commented on restaurants with top ratings for its […]
The expansion of Porky’s BBQ is fairly picking up speed. An outpost of the barbecue joint – specialising in American-style smoked meats – arrived on the South Bank’s Globe Walk in June and now another restaurant has opened at Boxpark, Shoreditch. Meat-loving hipsters can sample authentic slow-cooked American barbecue, including Memphis meaty ribs and tips (pork ribs […]
Burger joint Haché will launch its fifth London site this Christmas, with a 70-cover operation in Balham. The small group – which outstrips its larger rivals for quality, according to our annual survey – already has sites in Camden (pictured), Chelsea, Clapham and Shoreditch. Haché’s latest restaurant will occupy the former home of Meze Kitchen and will […]
Borough Market fixture Brindisa will celebrate a decade of serving tapas this year. To mark the occasion the restaurant group, which now has four sites, is to offer customers a week of Spanish feasting at the prices of 10 years ago. From 13-19 October, Brindisa’s top 10 tapas dishes – padron peppers, chorizo, garlic chilli prawns, tortillas, […]
The expansion of Porky’s BBQ is fairly picking up speed with the announcement of its second new site this year. An outpost of the barbecue joint, specialising in American-style smoked meats, arrived on the South Bank’s Globe Walk in June and now another restaurant is planned for late October. This latest Porky’s will open in the Boxpark […]
Bones, Shoreditch’s bang on trend chicken and sharing plates spot, has closed. Ostensibly the restaurant has shut up shop in order to carry out a refurb, but murmurings from the foodie cognoscenti denote an air of wishful thinking on the part of the owners. Indeed their website www.ieatbones.com has already been taken offline. Although serving up-to-the-minute fashionable […]
Shoreditch’s Vietnamese restaurant and takeaway, Kêu, will open its second London site in Soho on 15 September. The street food bar, serving up banh mi (filled baguettes), noodle bowls and buns, will take over 9 Poland Street, once home to the Burlington Café. The menu includes classic banh mi like mortadella, pork floss, house chicken liver […]
Mark Hix will open his second Hixter restaurant on 30 July. Serving up the trademark ‘whole roast chicken or steaks to share’ that Hix pioneered at The Tramshed in Shoreditch, this latest outpost will be located in the basement of a one time Victorian tin box printing factory on Bankside. The new site, close to […]
