TV chef Gino D’Acampo is parking his pasta machine on Jamie Oliver’s lawn with the announcement that his third My Restaurant will open in Leeds city centre by the end of the year – directly opposite Jamie’s Italian. Billed as “the UK’s favourite Italian chef”, D’Acampo made his name through TV appearances including a victorious […]
The Sethi siblings, the family behind some of London’s most notable South Asian restaurants in recent years including Gymkhana and Hoppers, are launching a delivery-only service with Deliveroo on Monday October 17. Motu Indian Kitchen, meaning “fat man” in Hindi, will produce “feast boxes” starting at £20 for delivery in Fulham, Clapham, Chelsea, Wandsworth and Putney. Karam […]
The Stein empire is taking its first steps into London, having bought The Depot, which overlooks the Thames near Barnes Bridge, from its long-time owners. Now 69, the chef and TV personality opened the Seafood Restaurant in Padstow with his former wife, Jill, in 1975. Since the couple split, the business is in fact as much the brainchild of […]
⦿ Fay Maschler of the Evening Standard reviewed Elystan Street 4/5, Phil Howard’s new restaurant in Chelsea, where she ate some “sublime” dishes but gasped at the prices and missed having a tablecloth. “Smoked mackerel velouté with Porthilly oysters — from the River Camel estuary — with leek hearts and eel toast is a secular […]
Brighton diners will get a preview of the new restaurant chef Matt Gillan plans for the city during a residency at the Lucky Beach Café on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in November and December. Gillan was head chef at The Pass restaurant in South Lodge Hotel near Horsham for 10 years until April. The Harden’s […]
Argentine star chef Mauro Colagreco of Mirazur in Menton on the French Riviera will be cooking at the four-day Barullo festival of Argentinian culture in Hoxton later this month. His four-course dinner will include Antarctic king crab and Patagonian lamb, accompanied by wines from 40 Argentinian producers introduced by a sommelier team under Paz Levinson. Colagreco […]
The steak boom shows no sign of running out of sizzle, with Hawksmoor announcing a sixth London branch at Southwark’s Borough Market to open in February. There is also a branch in Manchester. The new restaurant will accommodate 140 diners on two floors in a former Victorian hop warehouse later used by a fruit importer and […]
Billed as the world’s most expensive pho, two bowls of the Vietnamese national dish could be yours if you’re prepared to pay more than £1,000 for the privilege. The “super pho” concocted by Shaftesbury Avenue restaurant Pho and Bun using Kobe beef is being auctioned to raise funds for Action on Hunger. Owner Andy Le […]
Claude Bosi has joined forces with Sir Terence Conran to launch a new restaurant at Bibendum in Michelin House, South Kensington next year. To be called Claude Bosi at Bibendum, it will open in the spring following a full refurbishment of the distinctive building — once the French tyre firm’s London HQ. Hibiscus, Bosi’s foodie temple […]
⦿ The Observer’s Jay Rayner reviewed the Bull & Ram in Ballynahinch, Co. Down, which opened in a Grade 1-listed former butcher’s shop in June and excels in “tear-inducingly bloody lovely” cuts of Northern Irish short horn beef. “They know what they’re doing here. And what they’re doing is an utter joy. “The beef and the pork are […]
