A new restaurant/cocktail bar/art gallery is to open in the heart of Soho next week (Wednesday 7 September). Bantof, in Great Windmill Street, will feature an all-day menu of sharing plates created by Asimakis Chaniotis, head chef at Pied a Terre in Fitzrovia. The cocktail offering has been designed by Jack Scotti of SuperNacular, and […]
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is to open Piazza, its fifth-floor restaurant, to the public for the first time when it relaunches this month. Previously restricted to ticket-holders on the day of a performance, Piazza will be open for lunch every day and dinner every night except Sunday from 27 September – allowing […]
Coworth Park, the luxury hotel near Sunningdale in Berkshire, will unveil a new destination restaurant named after its executive chef next week. Woven by Adam Smith promises to “push the boundaries of creativity and excellence” when it launches on Thursday 8 September. Once owned by the polo-playing Canadian billionaire Galen Weston, the palatial Georgian house […]
Chef Robbie Lorraine has swapped a shipping container at Pop Brixton for a Grade II listed Jacobean manor house in Kent in one of the year’s most spectacular changes in workplace scenery. South Londoner Robbie, who has cooked at Chelsea FC among other places, gained rave reviews for Only Food and Courses, the retro-inspired pop-up […]
Koyn, a contemporary take on the traditional Japanese izakaya will be the fifth opening in Samyukta Nair’s (pictured, above) collection of Mayfair restaurants when it opens on Wednesday 21 September in the former US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square. The kitchen will be run by executive chef Rhys Cattermoul, a New Zealander formerly of Nobu […]
Happy Bank Holiday Monday! This is what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 28 August 2022. ***** The Evening Standard “Lately, I have been reacquainting myself with the joys of a bargain restaurant deal.” Taking advantage of the “citywide awakening… that budget-consciousness and brilliance are not mutually exclusive […]
We’ve been busy finalising the London guide for 2023, so this week’s Review of the Reviews is catching you up on two weeks of reviews! We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week… This is what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the TWO weeks ending 21 August 2022. ***** […]
Sunda Kitchen, a new Southeast Asian restaurant and cocktail bar, opened in Covent Garden this week from Jamie Younger, co-owner of Thai food pioneer the Begging Bowl in Peckham. Occupying the former site of Wahlburgers in James Street, Sunda has a menu of snacks and sharing plates including Thai KFC cauliflower with tamarind mayo, Malaysian […]
Asma Khan has relaunched her Darjeeling Express as a pop-up in a Kensington pub while she looks for a new permanent site, having closed last month after less than two years in Covent Garden. The restaurant opened this week in its temporary siding at the Pembroke, almost next door to the Troubadour in the Old […]
The Glasshouse in Kew, one of London’s highest-rating neighbourhood restaurants of the past two decades, is to close down next month. There was no immediate explanation of the move, which was announced with a terse message on the restaurant’s website. It read: “It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of The Glasshouse […]
