A new café-cum-wine-bar focused on light lunches and seasonal plates that pair well with a glass of vino, has opened not far from Hipster (sorry, we mean Hackney!) Central station. Legs launched on 19 May in Morning Lane. Beneath the restaurant is a ‘makers’ basement’, where the team and selected partners distill vermouth for the bar, cure meats, […]
Texture and 28°-50° restaurant group co-founder Xavier Rousset has unveiled plans for his next venture – a ‘small wine restaurant’ called Blandford Comptoir. It will open at the end of May on Blandford Street in Marylebone. Rousset left the group he helped co-found with Agnar Sverrisson in 2007 in May last year. The restaurateur and wine expert, […]
Humble Grape, the wine bar and shop from James Dawson is to open a second site in May. Following the success of the Battersea opening last year, Humble Grape will launch a larger venue in St Bride’s Passage, just off Fleet Street. The site – tucked away down a cobbled street and hidden in the vaults […]
The owners of Hackney wine bar Sager + Wilde have revealed their plans for expansion with a second site opening under the railway arches of Bethnal Green. Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wilde will launch a new 90-cover restaurant, Mission, in Paradise Row in late August. With a focus on Californian wines, the pair’s latest venture will […]
Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant (the flagship of his empire which now straddles continents and has taken to the high seas) has opened a cocktail and wine bar. The flash new drinking den, situated at the Naked Chef’s Hoxton restaurant in Westland Place, will serve classic and modern concoctions, craft beers, ciders and a few choice bottles […]
