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Two new Thai restaurants, split over two floors but under the same ownership, will open at the former Jane Tira on Brewer Street in Soho this December. Wild Rice and Mamasan, from debutante restaurateurs Pan Serirak and Mike Asavarut, are set to “reinvent Thai food”, according to an announcement. On the ground floor will be Wild […]
Grace Dent for The Guardian travelled down to Penzance to visit the Mexico Inn, a “fun pub for families”, whose name “is perhaps unhelpful if you stop by hoping for enchiladas and tequila” – it’s a traditional Cornish pub run by an ex-Gurnard’s Head couple who have clearly set up “the type of intensely relaxed, […]
Tom Kitchin and team will today open Southside Scran, a new restaurant in Edinburgh. Southside Scran appears a more relaxed alternative to Kitchin’s “outstanding” fine dining flagship, though will stay true to the chef’s commitment to Scottish produce and seasonal cooking. The restaurant’s focal point will be a rotisserie grill, upon which great hunks of […]
Manchester House, which suffered a shock closure in October, is to reopen, with chef Aiden Byrne back in the kitchen. OMG. Talk about musical chairs. Byrne is returning to Manchester House after joining rival D&D restaurant 20 Stores earlier this year. This month, it was announced the chef would be stepping down from the position […]
One of the world’s biggest names in dim sum, Din Tai Fung, is on the verge of opening in London. The Taiwanese chain will launch at the former Henry’s cafe bar on Henrietta Street in an enormous 250-cover space on December 5. The restaurant will be a “no reservations” London flagship set over two floors, […]
Nicholas Balfe has finally opened the eagerly awaited Levan. The restaurant is a follow up to the “very good and adventurous” Salon in Brixton, which launched in 2013. Balfe, who at the Ten Bells in Shoreditch worked alongside Isaac McHale of the Clove Club, and James Lowe of Lyle’s, has a fine track record of […]
An upcoming restaurant combining – quite oddly, some might say – Japanese and Italian cuisine in Dalston will enforce a ‘no-phone’ rule at the bar. Angelina is set to open in February 2019 and will aim to celebrate the best of Italian regional cookery and seasonality, and Japanese flavours and techniques. (We’re only aware of […]
The 100-cover restaurant site that was once The Woodford is to reopen as The Gallery on November 27, serving lunch and dinner until late. The Pierre Koffman protégé (and former Young Chef of the Year) Ben Murphy – then just 25 – had been backed by Essex restaurateur Steve Andrews to open the restaurant in South […]
Stevie Parle is soon to open a second Pastaio in Canary Wharf. The new restaurant will launch on November 26 in a space formerly occupied by Pocho. The second Pastaio will serve much the same as the Soho site, with plenty of deep-fried ‘nduja and mozzarella, pasta plates and Italian sausage. Whether the queues will […]
Grace Dent for The Guardian visits The French House in Soho with some reluctance: it’s a “hollow task to review a restaurant that has tottered on already… for more than 100 years”. But with Neil Borthwick freshly installed at the reigns, she felt obliged to check that he was respecting this last bastion of Soho’s […]
