In May 2020, Rahul Khanna and Kabir Suri, of Azure Hospitality in India, will launch their first UK venture on Mortimer Street in Fitzrovia. Inspired by India’s diverse culinary heritage, the ground floor restaurant, Pali Hill, will offer an eclectic menu of regional sharing plates. Downstairs, Bandra Bhai will be an underground cocktail bar, inspired […]
The hospitality industry is calling on the government to do more to help as footfall slides amid the coronavirus outbreak. Some city centre restaurants and pubs have reported a 50 per cent drop in customers as an increasing number of people work from home. In his budget on Wednesday Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a 12-month […]
Taiwanese streamed bun group Bao is to launch a new daytime dining spot in King’s Cross. Opening in spring, the restaurant will serve Yoshoku, or Western-inspired pan-Asian cuisine. Café Bao will be the group’s first site to offer breakfast, which will be served until midday, with dishes such as bao loaf with butter and syrup, […]
Wales and Real Madrid star Gareth Bale is planning to open a restaurant space and mini-golf destination in Cardiff. Par 59 will be based in the city’s Capitol Shopping Centre and will feature two mini-golf courses, two large bars, and dining rooms. Food will come from two independently run kitchens, with sushi from Japanese food […]
Gavin Gordon, who trained at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, has been appointed head chef of the Hut at Colwell Bay on the Isle of Wight. The chef has racked up more than ten years in top kitchens, having gone on to work at Gordon Ramsay’s the Narrow, as well as Mac & Wild and Bonnie Gull […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 8 March 2020. Happy International Women’s Day! Your Mum’s Kitchen, London NW6 Jay Rayner from The Observer was still musing on the different styles of restaurant reviewing this week, with homage to Jonathan Gold “who reviewed for the LA Times prior to his infuriatingly premature […]
Corbin & King have together revealed their latest restaurant, Manzi’s, will launch at the end of May. The big and bold seafood restaurant, which will focus on fish and vegetarian food, will be situated on Bateman Passage, which runs between Soho Square and Bateman Street. “A fish and seafood restaurant, it will also have a […]
Bob Bob Cité has announced a maximum mark up of £75 per bottle of wine, irrespective of size, on every wine in its collection. The restaurant has 280 wines and 120 champagnes on its list, in all sizes, and each one will be included in the new offer – a permanent fixture at the luxury […]
The Salutation, hotel and restaurant made famous by former Gogglebox stars “Steph and Dom”, has closed. The 17 bedroom hotel, in Sandwich, Kent, went into insolvency in January and has now entered into Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation, with bookings now not being met. The business was being run by John Fothergill, who had a five-year lease […]
Bone Daddies founder Ross Shonhan will depart the restaurant group seven years after opening its first ramen bar. Since its inception in 2012, Bone Daddies has grown to six sites, with bao concept Flesh & Buns – there are now two – launched a year later. Shack-Fuyu, which serves Western-influence Japanese food, is also part […]