A high-end Japanese omakase restaurant with a Middle Eastern twist is scheduled to open in Marylebone by the end of September. Mayha, in Chiltern Street, is the first UK opening from Beirut’s Nothing But Love group, although chefs Jurek Wasio and Yuichi Nahayo have both previously worked in London’s Yashin Sushi and Ocean House. The […]
Harrods will bring together an all-star group of chefs – six chefs with 12 Michelin sparklers between them – for a one-off high-rollers’ charity banquet next week (Thursday 25 September) costing £2,500 a head. Limited to just 25 diners, the meal will raise funds for Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert’s in Earl’s Court, part of Italian […]
As the country mourns Queen Elizabeth II this week, a select group of restaurants she visited are no doubt reviewing their own royal memories. For security reasons as well as to preserve the mystique of royalty, Her Majesty was a very infrequent diner in restaurants – and when she did so, it was usually in a […]
Our weekly summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 11 September 2022. ***** The Sunday Times The Stratford hotel in east London is “a building that Ridley Scott might have rejected for Blade Runner as too comically dystopian”. Inside, on the 7th floor (“suspended between a […]
The Castle Hotel in Taunton (above) has joined chef Tom Kerridge in offering bargain-price lunches for the month of September to lift the country’s mood during the current cost of living crisis. The fixed-price menu of two courses for £15 or three for £20 will be served in the hotel’s restaurant Brazz from Tuesday to […]
London’s thriving Nigerian restaurant scene received a double boost this week with the news that hit Brixton restaurant Chishuru is looking for bigger premises while an ambitious new dining and entertainment venue will open near Smithfield Market in Farringdon. The Patio is taking over the former site of Bird of Smithfield, a five-storey building that […]
Spectacular hand-pulled noodles can be watched as well as eaten at a new restaurant in Chinatown, called Kung Fu Noodle because the cooks look like they are practising chopping movements from the martial art made famous in the 1970s through Bruce Lee’s films and Carl Douglas’s hit single. The noodles, from Gansu province in northwestern […]
An ambitious new restaurant combining Japanese izakaya-style dining with low-intervention wines and their equivalent unfiltered nigori (cloudy) sake has opened in Embassy Gardens, the development adjacent to the new US Embassy in Nine Elms which has transformed the area between Battersea and Vauxhall. Evernight is the first restaurant from Singaporean chef Lynus Lim, formerly of […]
Highly rated taco stall Sonora is transferring from East London’s Netil Market to booming Arcade Food Hall in Centre Point off Oxford Street, where it will open under a new name – Mexa – and with new seafood options on the menu. This coming weekend marks its last hurrah in London Fields’ Netil Market, which will […]
Our weekly summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 4 September 2022. ***** The Sunday Times Marina O’Loughlin reviewed Bottle & Rye in Brixton, Robin Gill’s “tribute to the seductive newish breed of Parisian wine bars”. The “daily blackboard menu rammed with things I want to […]
