Wimbledon independent neighbourhood restaurant The White Onion has closed down after seven years, to be replaced by The Black Sheep, the latest addition to the Gladwin brothers’ fast-growing group Local & Wild. The White Onion’s managing director, Beggy Ashurov, blamed the closure on the “difficult circumstances surrounding Covid-19 and Brexit that our restaurant has been […]
Tutto, an ambitious new Italian restaurant from the team behind Brighton’s Salt Room, is to open this summer in a revamped 1930s bank on Marlborough Place – just a few minutes’ walk from the Brighton Pavilion. The kitchen will run by Sardinian-born Mirella Pau, who is from a restaurant-owning family. Mentored in London by Angela Hartnett, […]
Food writer/chef Florence Knight and artist/entrepreneur Jonny Gent (pictured) have combined to launch Boath House, a bohemian retreat in the Scottish Highlands, reprising the successful formula behind their opening last year of Sessions Arts Club in a former Georgian court building beside Clerkenwell Green in London. Boath House is a listed Georgian mansion about 20 […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 24 April 2022. ***** The Sunday Times “Cynical harridan that I am, it has been a long, long time since I’ve considered a restaurant as an arena for romance. I’m afraid today’s restaurant makes this […]
A pop-up African supper club in Edinburgh has found a permanent home in the city’s New Town, as the continent’s cuisine makes increasing progress across the UK. Farin Road, from chef Tunde Abifarin, is taking a residency at the cafe Tani Modi on Hanover Street, operating initially on Friday and Saturday evenings from next month. […]
Margot Henderson of Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch is taking over a Somerset pub with rooms, The Three Horseshoes in Batcombe, which is scheduled to reopen after refurbishment in November. The 17th-century country pub has five guest bedrooms, and will serve “heartfelt, wholesome meals that celebrate the very best produce from local farmers”. The chef was […]
Star Edinburgh chef Tom Kitchin is opening a new restaurant, Kora, on the Bruntsfield site formerly occupied by his bistro Southside Scran, which closed down in 2020 after barely a year’s operation – a victim of both flooding and the pandemic. Named after the classical goddess of spring and agriculture, Kora opens appropriately this spring and […]
Neat Burger, the plant-based fast-food brand backed by Lewis Hamilton, is launching in the US this year with a target of 1,000 branches around the world by the year 2030 – in anticipation of a meat-free world ten years later. The company has eight branches up and running in London with another 30 in the pipeline. […]
The Modern Pantry is to be brought back to life and Le Pont de la Tour will gain a new bistro as their owner, D&D London, spruces itself up for sale by auction following the collapse of a £100 million deal last autumn. This week the restaurant group – originally founded by the late Terence Conran […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 17 April 2022. ***** The Sunday Times “It’s unusual to find a newcomer that seems as untouched by the past few decades as Les 2 Garçons.” Marina O’Loughlin reviewed the Crouch Hill newcomer, a “classic […]
