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The team behind The Hawk’s Nest in Shepherd’s Bush has announced its next venture, The Phoenix, at Westfield nearby. This is the second site from Frazer Timmerman and Wil Fuller, who have promised a “vibrant green English garden to the vast space providing the ideal area for all-day-dining and post-shopping pick-me-ups.” The Phoenix will have […]
A new pizza spot and cocktail bar has launched in Shepherd’s Bush, West London. The Hawks Nest is housed in a converted railway arch and is replete with a pizzeria, bar, garden and various artworks. The menu focuses on Italian street food including arancini, calamari, and sourdough pizzas. The menu will change but features the […]
Venezuelan restaurateurs Gabriel and Jose-Luis Gonzalez are to open Caracas in Westfield London, White City. The casual dining restaurant will be a homage to their homeland, inspired by the buzzing arepa bars across the country, particularly in the capital. The brothers’ menu will aim to show off the best of Venezuelan cuisine, with the arepa […]
MEATliquor, the rock’n’roll burger chain, is opening its 12th site inside the revamped Queens ice rink in Queensway on May 5. Queens Skate Bowl is the only ice rink in central London, and also has 12 bowling lanes. MEATliquor is moving in after a nine-month refurb, and includes a diner seating 80 and a large bar area […]
West London favourite Charlotte’s Place has added a new upstairs dining room overlooking Ealing Common – in what used to be the flat where founder Charlotte Kearns lived. She opened the restaurant with her husband, John, more than 30 years ago. It is still, according to the latest Harden’s Survey, “the best in Ealing by far”. Owner Alex […]
Allegra McEvedy has bought the Shepherd’s Bush wine bar Albertine, founded by her mother, and will reopen it after a spruce-up later this month. Originally opened in 1978, Albertine became a favourite watering-hole for staff from the BBC’s White City studios further up Wood Lane – it even suggested the name Albert Square to the team […]
The ETM Group (the mushrooming gastropub empire behind The Gun, The Jugged Hare and The Botanist) has reopened one of Ealing’s most popular pubs, the Ealing Park Tavern. The boozer reopened this week after an extensive refurb, with a 60-cover restaurant, bar, private function rooms, and walled garden. Ealing Park Tavern first opened in 1728 when […]
New grill house, West Thirty Six, will open in Golborne Road later this month – the same west London street that already houses John Doe, the charcoal grill spot glowingly reviewed by the Observer’s Jay Rayner on Sunday (4 Jan). The three storey 100-cover restaurant with bar and cocktail lounge, on the former site of the […]
