Former Kiln head chef Karla Knowles is opening two Thai restaurants in quick succession, starting next week with Pam, by Smithfield Market in Charterhouse Street. Her first standalone restaurant, Pam is pitched as a “playful and creative” take on Thai cuisine, making use of seasonal British produce in a venue that will also host art […]
A traditional City chophouse originally founded in 1757 reopens next week under a new guise and new ownership – but with its historic interior painstakingly restored. Simpson’s Tavern in Cornhill closed down four years ago following a dispute with its landlord. It is being relaunched by the team behind Cloth in Smithfield as Cloth Cornhill – and […]
Club Gascon in Smithfield, one of the most influential restaurants in London of the last quarter century, is to shut up shop at the end of March. Chef-patron Pascal Aussignac and his business partner Vincent Labeyrie announced the closure “with both gratitude and a heavy heart” in an email to regulars this week. They said: […]
