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A new branch of mid-market Thai restaurant Thaikhun is set to open in Liverpool. The group is growing. Liverpool’s site will be the tenth in the chain, with sites already established in the likes of Glasgow, Manchester, Cambridge, and Guildford. Thaikhun is the work of Grosvenor Europe and Thai Leisure Group (TLG), which sees Liverpool as […]
Homeslice is to open its sixth London restaurant early next year. The pizzeria will join the likes of Hoppers, Bone Daddies, and Harry’s Bar in St. Christopher’s Place in Marylebone. The expanding chain also plans to move its head office to the four storey property, with ‘significant renovations’ to come. The development as a whole […]
Peruvian-inspired restaurant Pachamama is to open a second site in Shoreditch. Harden’s readers say the first site is “innovative and delicious”, serving fusion dishes combined with cocktails based on pisco and mezcal. The first Pachamama has been running for three years at its Marylebone home, and there was – at least the last time we […]
Tom Kitchin is to host a special four-course dinner at The Game Bird at The Stafford London. Kitchen will bring his seasonal Scottish food to the hotel, cooking classic fish and game dishes on September 27. On the menu is Orkney scallops baked in their shell, roast halibut with Jerusalem artichokes and black truffle, and […]
London restaurant Lorne will reopen in September after being forced to close due to flash flooding. The Pimlico restaurant was only open a year before being hit by water damage. But it didn’t need long to make a big impression. We described Lorne early on as a “modern British restaurant with an impressive pedigree: Peter Hall […]
Ever-expanding Indian restaurant chain Dishoom is opening in Manchester. The group’s seventh branch will launch in Bridge Street’s historic Manchester Hall later this year. An official date hasn’t been confirmed, but December looks likely. Dishoom’s homage to the old Irani cafes of Mumbai – then Bombay – continues, with executive chef Naved Nasir’s now famous […]
50 Kalo di Ciro Salvo, London, WC2 (****) in The Evening Standard visited the latest Neapolitan pizzeria to import itself into London (following on from L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, which recently opened in Baker Street – the first branch in Stoke Newington is no more). Despite almost everything about the place – the location (Northumberland […]
St. John is to open a permanent bakery in Neal’s Yard at Seven Dials, Covent Garden. It follows popular pop-up bakeries over the last 12 months in Old Street and Bermondsey Street. The restaurant group said its first stand-alone retail bakery will “boast a counter laden with doughnuts”, which will be delivered twice daily from […]
British chop and steak restaurant Blacklock is opening a third site in Shoreditch. The group, which has two existing sites in Soho and in the City, is to take over a space previously occupied by Caprice Holdings. Most recently the Rivington Bar & Grill, Blacklock is to move into the former Victorian warehouse later this […]
Anthony Demetre is the latest name to throw his hat into the ring at the new Coal Drops Yard development, in King’s Cross. The Wild Honey chef will open Vermuteria Café & Bar at the site in October this year, joining the likes of Pip Lacey’s Hicce and The Drop – a wine bar from the […]
