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In the same week that one in five GBKs are to close, another street food pop-up has revealed plans to open its first bricks and mortar restaurant. Burger & Beyond (what else?) will open in Shoreditch (where else?) next month. The 75-cover restaurant will feature an expanded menu, working in new dishes to bolster the […]
‘A mere fourteen months’ after originally planned Bob Bob Cité is set to open. The restaurant, a City sibling to Soho’s “dazzling” but “expensive” Bob Bob Ricard, will launch on Monday March 25 next year in the Leadenhall Building (the ‘Cheesegrater’ if you prefer). Suspended above the 30-meter high open-air atrium will be two dining […]
Marina O’Loughlin visited Andrew Wong’s City newcomer Kym’s for The Sunday Times, “an opening… hotly anticipated by restaurant lovers” (and what she calls his “potentially difficult second album”). Could he pull off his Pimlico triumph (the “electrifying” A Wong) in the “expensive banality” surroundings of the Bloomberg arcade? Despite being “mildly devastated” that there’s no […]
Alimentum, the respected but troubled Cambridge restaurant with “undoubtedly good” food but very little else, has closed. Head chef Samira Effa announced the news on social media. Financial difficulties were labelled as the cause on social media, though we cannot confirm that. A statement from the Alimentum account on Twitter said: “The restaurant and kitchen […]
Chef André Garrett is to leave Cliveden House and take on the same role at the Corinthia Hotel London. Garrett has been executive chef at Cliveden for five years, and will take up his new job in January. He will look after all food and drink at the five star hotel – with the exception of […]
A long reel of top chefs will be cooking at Northcote’s 19th annual Obsession event next year. The impressive roster includes the likes of James Lowe of Lyle’s and Andrew Wong (of A Wong). The series will take place over 17 nights and runs from January 18 to February 3. In total, 18 chefs from […]
Chef Simon Whiteside has announced a new solo enterprise – Roe, in London’s Pop Brixton. Whiteside co-founded fish and seafood restaurant Hook in Camden last year. The chef will open a new 32-cover restaurant south of the river on November 7. At Roe, the chef will again focus on sustainable seafood from the British and Irish […]
Richard Falk, formerly head chef at Robin Gill’s consistently strong The Dairy in Clapham, has revealed plans for his own venture. Falk will launch London bar and restaurant Lino on November 9. The site, a former linoleum – hence the name – and carpet warehouse will open in the City. Lino, however, will aim not to […]
A new Vapianos will open at Tower Bridge on October 26. The restaurant will be housed within the One Tower Bridge development. Not everyone has found the location fruitful. We reported previously that the casual Italian (Hamburg-based) restaurant chain would be doubling its London presence; this Vapianos branch is just the beginning. Next up will be […]
BaoziInn Romilly Street, the Chinese restaurant that serves northern Chinese street food and colourful Cantonese ‘fusion’ dim sum, is to open a second site in November. The Soho restaurant will launch a stall at Victoria’s revamped Market Halls. Since 1909, Terminus Place has been home to an Edwardian shopping arcade, a traditional restaurant, and a […]
