StreetSmart, the charity which raises funds to help homeless people, this week launched its annual pre-Christmas campaign asking restaurant diners to add a donation of £1 per table to their bill. More than 450 restaurants have signed up to participate in the scheme, including many of British gastronomy’s most high-profile names. Chef Jackson Boxer, of […]
Successful South London chef Nicholas Balfe opens his first country restaurant next Wednesday, 10 November – Holm, at South Petherton near Crewkerne in Somerset. Balfe, part of the trio behind Salon Brixton, who went on to launch Levan and Larry’s in Peckham, sees the new venture as a lifestyle change more than a business. “Having […]
Sarap, the first Filipino restaurant to make a real impact on the London culinary scene, is to open a West End branch this month in Mayfair’s Heddon Street. Its signature dish will be Lechon suckling pig, slow-roasted whole and stuffed with lemongrass aromatics and truffled adobo pork rice, to be ordered 48 hours in advance […]
Chef Rob Taylor and his wife Donna open their new restaurant Tallow, at Southborough on the edge of Tunbridge Wells in Kent next Friday, 5 November, having left the well-regarded The Compasses further east at Crundale after eight years last month. Set in an old building on the edge of Southborough’s village green, Tallow is […]
Inca, a new high-end South American restaurant/nightclub, opens this weekend (30 October) in Argyll Street, Soho, with live shows on stage from midnight and a late licence until 4am from Wednesdays. Occupying the former site of nightclub Toy Room, Inca can seat 170 guests and has been created by a team who worked together at […]
Langan’s Brasserie, the ultimate celeb haunt of the early 80s, reopens tomorrow (Saturday 30 October) following a complete refurbishment and under new management. A Mayfair magnet for paparazzi in its glory years, Langan’s slid into administration last year after closing in the March lockdown. It has been rescued by Peter Dubens of Oakley Capital, and […]
Flor, the Borough Market spinoff from Shoreditch heavyweight Lyle’s, is switching to a bakery-shop format next week under head baker Helen Evans (pictured). The team will also open a new Flor Bakery at Bermondsey’s Spar Terminus on 4 December, selling takeaway bread, pastries and coffee. Flor has operated as a hybrid bakery and small-plates restaurant […]
Scottish craft-brew giant BrewDog has announced plans for its biggest ever venue – a bar, food and entertainment complex over two floors in the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station. There 26,500 sq ft site was slated to open as a Time Out food market before plans were scuppered by the pandemic. The beer complex […]
Jamaican restaurant Up A Yard has opened in rural north Wales, as the culmination of a successful lockdown project from Charlotte Stanley, ex head chef of 1891 Restaurant and Bar at the Pavilion Theatre in Rhyl. Up A Yard occupies the site of the former cafe at Holywell Art and Craft Mill in Flintshire. Charlotte, […]
Gazette, the Gallic brasserie group based in Battersea, has opened its first branch in central London, on the Holborn site long occupied by Vanilla Black (RIP), the highly rated vegetarian restaurant that closed down last summer. In a nod to its legal-land location on the fringe of the City, Gazette Chancery features a dine-in wine […]
