A new Basque steakhouse has opened in the City specialising in dishes from the French side of the Basque country – and with long-term plans to showcase the first Galician Blond beef bred in the UK. Ibai, close to Smithfield Market, brings together former Chiltern Firehouse head chef Richard Foster (pictured centre) with Nemanja Borjanović […]
Hot on the heels of the £1bn Ivy sale, the Financial Times has reported that the Hawksmoor steakhouse group is considering the possibility of a £100m sale to fund its international expansion. Founded in 2006 by Will Beckett and Huw Gott with a single site in Spitalfields, Hawksmoor opened a branch last week in Chicago, […]
A new Anglo-American steakhouse with rooftop dining opens in Clapham High Street next week – and promises “the best steaks in South London”. Franklin & Baines offers selection of grass-fed British steaks, dry-aged for a minimum of 28 days, ranging from a 200g hanger steak at £18.50 to a 700g tomahawk for two at £69 – all […]
An Italian steakhouse from Lecce in Puglia has opened a London branch in Chelsea – with little in the way of introduction or promotion. Tabisca has taken over a site near Sloane Square long occupied by Como Lario, and more recently by short-lived restaurants Liv and 1771. Tabisca’s menu showcases a selection of Italian raw and […]
A new wagyu-specialist Japanese restaurant opens in Mayfair next week which is expected to charge an astonishing £750 per person for a meal with wine. Aragawa, on Clarges Street, is the first European branch of a restaurant that originated in 1956 in Kobe, capital of Hyogo prefecture, and home of the best wagyu cattle – it […]
A new high-end steakhouse specifically aimed at women is launching in Warrington this autumn, as a challenge to the genre’s traditional red-blooded macho image. Pendergast’s, in the Cheshire town’s cultural quarter, will serve plant-based dishes including celeriac ‘steaks’ and chalk-stream trout alongside a selection of prime cuts of beef, in a chic environment with no […]
Chef Paul Foster’s debut London venue GrassFed opened this week in a reclaimed Camden railway arch – a far cry from the historic timbered premises of his acclaimed restaurant Salt in Stratford-upon-Avon. As the name suggests, GrassFed showcases British beef and other meat, with a particular focus on ethical sourcing, sustainability and regenerative farming techniques. Much […]
A new Danish steakhouse called KöD – meat in Danish – has opened in the City of London, serving beef from Britain, Uruguay and the US along with Japanese wagyu – all with a signature swoosh of “velvet carrot purée”. Founded in Århus in 2014, KöD now has branches in Copenhagen as well as Oslo and Stavanger […]
The historic Islington pie and mash shop M. Manze in Chapel Market is to reopen as a low-intervention wine bar serving British small plates by Alex Pashby of street-food trader The Beefsteaks. The pie, mash and jellied eels shop closed down in 2019 after 108 years in the face of steep increases in rent and […]
A new steakhouse, Block Soho, opens in St Anne’s Court, Soho next week on the site formerly occupied by another steakhouse, Zelman Meats, which closed here in March last year. Block Soho is the second launch of the summer from Roger Payne’s Enhanced Hospitality group, following the opening last month of the Maddox Tavern in […]