The famous Midland Grand dining room at St Pancras, one of London’s most beautiful restaurant spaces, is to become the latest branch of upmarket steakhouse Hawksmoor. The move follows the sudden closure of Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand in July, just six months after its launch. Hawksmoor St Pancras is expected to open in […]
Top chefs Tom Brown and Brad Carter have teamed up to launch a surf-and-turf restaurant – or as they otherwise put it “a traditional steakhouse with a coastal twist” – in King’s Cross. Island opens next week at Mare Street Market in Lewis Cubitt Square. Tom, who made his name with east London seafood specialists Cornerstone […]
A new steakhouse showcasing prime grass-fed Yorkshire beef opens tonight in a landmark 1930s building in Hull that has been empty for the past 10 years. One Steakhouse & Lounge, at 1 Witham overlooking North Bridge on the edge of the city centre, will accommodate up to 200 guests in the transformed dining room and […]
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, […]
No sooner have Boris and Carrie Johnson belatedly celebrated their nuptials with a South African braai on the Bamfords’ Daylesford Park estate than a South African-style steakhouse opens in Mayfair. Meat & Wine Co, which launches next Monday, 8 August, in Curzon Street, is the brainchild of Bradley Michael, a former personal training instructor in […]
The team behind South Ken’s Macellaio RC – which has long been “knocking more macho steak houses into a cock hat” according to our reporters – will launch a new restaurant in Southwark’s Union Yard arches in August 2016. Founder Robert Costa first expanded his winning formula of “the best steaks ever” paired with an ingenious […]
The Editors’ review of Strand Dining Rooms It’s a handy enough place for breakfast or tea and coffee but we’re not sure it persuades as a lunch/dinner destination. Ms Maschler enjoys ‘ethereal’ and ‘extraordinary’ food at Wormwood The Evening Standard critic is back from her hiatus and thrilled to discover a new Notting Hill […]
