A new bistro inspired by the cuisine of rural France has opened in Borough Market from the team behind Soho’s Ducksoup – with an ex-St John chef at the stoves. Camille has taken over the former site of Sons + Daughters sandwich shop, with room for 32 guests inside and more outside on the terrace. This […]
St John restaurant is decamping to Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly next month while its base near Smithfield Market is refurbished. The residency – the first in Fortnums’ long history – brings together two icons of British gastronomy: the victualler to royalty, most famous now for its afternoon teas, was founded as long ago as 1707, […]
Matt Appleton and Jess Blackstone, the pair behind Highbury-based Fink’s Salt & Sweet cafés, are launching a new restaurant in the area next week. Saltine will offer coffee, pastries and grab-and-go bites during the day, but operate as a full-scale restaurant in the evening, with a menu from former St John Marylebone chef Phil Wood […]
Fergus Henderson’s world-famous ‘nose-to-tail’ restaurant St John will next month open its first new satellite venue for more than a decade – a two-storey all-day operation including a wine bar in the heart of Marylebone Village. St John Marylebone launches on Tuesday 18 October (now delayed to 19 October) at 98 Marylebone Lane, next-door to a […]
St John will today reopen its Bermondsey bakery, selling baked goods such as sourdough bread, raisin loaves, and doughnuts. Wine will also be available. The move marks the coming return of Britain’s establishments, which are earmarked to be allow to open, with social distancing in place, on July 4. Until then, restaurants are opening in […]
Two chefs from Cub restaurant and St John have combined to create a new delivery kitchen in London. Eddy Tejada, formerly of St John and Silo, and Matthew Scott, from Cub, have established Hot 4 U, with dishes available anywhere within the M25. An announcement said the chefs concentrate on “sustainability and high-grade produce”. Dishes […]
Iconic London restaurant St John, which introduced an unsuspecting world to the gospel of ‘nose-to-tail dining’, is to open in Los Angeles, USA, in October. Hitherto a profound statement of UK culinary identity, it will be interesting to see whether it becomes a branch of the native Californian food culture, or is rather a Brit […]
St John Bakery will open a second site having seen success in Neal’s Yard. The bakery’s first singular outpost, in Covent Garden, has become an Instagram hit, largely thanks to Fergus Henderson‘s trademark doughnuts. Now, the group will launch another standalone unit in Fora, a co-working space on Borough High Street. The bakery won’t be […]
Events man Auro Foxcroft, and Chris Gillard, previously executive chef at the St John Group, are soon to open Earth Kitchen, a new restaurant in Dalston. Earth Kitchen will be housed within a former art deco cinema foyer on Stoke Newington Road and comes as part of a wider space called Evolutionary Arts Hackney (once […]
St John staff are to offer their wisdom to socially minded restaurants in London as part of a new support initiative. Chefs and front of house crew at Fergus Henderson’s restaurant will take part in the St John Pass It On scheme, which will run in conjunction with sustainability food and farming group London Food […]
