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    Carolina brings Chile’s cool cuisine to London
    June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 HardensBytes

    An ambitious Chilean restaurant with a menu overseen by Santiago-based chef Carolina Bazán (pictured) opens tomorrow in Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia. Mareida is the brainchild of first-time restaurateur Prenay Agarwal, a Mumbai-born former financier who acquired a taste for Chilean cuisine while living in Santiago. Hailed as South America’s top female chef by the World’s […]

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    Uruguay the focus at new Battersea venue
    September 22, 2023September 22, 2023 HardensBytes

    Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng, the chef couple behind the long-running East-meets-West project TATA Eatery , will open their new restaurant Solis in Battersea on October 4 – and this time it is Iberia meets Uruguay. The 80-cover venue is the final addition to the Arcade Battersea food hall, which opened this summer in the former […]

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    Musician YolanDa Brown smashes crowdfunding record for new soul food venue
    July 14, 2023July 14, 2023 HardensBytes

    Musician YolanDa Brown has broken global fundraising records on Kickstarter to launch a new restaurant and music venue in Islington. Soul Mama is set to open this autumn with a menu inspired by recipes handed down through generations of mothers across the Caribbean, Africa and South America. Launched in partnership with her manager Adetokunbo ‘T’ […]

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    East is East and West is West, and spice is where they meet
    August 19, 2022June 12, 2024 HardensBytes

    A pair of Brighton-based chefs with origins on different continents will this month launch a small restaurant that explores the Columbian exchange of spices and flavours between the ‘Old World’ of Europe and Asia and the ‘New World’ of the Americas. Kanthi Kiran Thamma (left in photo) from Hyderabad in south India and Diego Ricaurte […]

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