A new Franco-Irish brasserie has launched in Old Spitalfields Market. 65A Spitalfields officially opens next Tuesday, 12 September, but diners can sample it today with food at a 30% discount during the soft launch. The restaurant is owned by Irish-born entrepreneur and publican Patrick Frawley, with executive chef Maura Baxter running the kitchen. It takes […]
Two New Yorkers who first met working in a suburban grocery store more than 30 years ago have teamed up for the launch of an authentic New York-style bagel café in Primrose Hill. It’s Bagels will be unveiled in Regent’s Park Road on Monday, and opening seven days a week to eat in, on the […]
American-Italian restaurant Lavo is to launch its first European branch in Marylebone this month – the latest in a rash of upscale Italian-inspired openings from international operators in London this autumn. Lavo was founded in New York in 20 years ago by Noah Tepperberg of the Tao Group and took off as a brand following the […]
A cheese-focused restaurant serving pizzas made with local seasonal products is to open near Settle in North Yorkshire next month. Called Rind, it is the result of the friendship between Andy Swinscoe, founder of Settle’s cheese shop The Courtyard Dairy, and Mathew Carver of London’s floating restaurant the Cheese Barge. Housed in a former falconry […]
Jeremy King is to revive Le Caprice, the celebrity-magnet restaurant where he made his name alongside business partner Chris Corbin in the 1980s (Jeremy is on the right in this 1985 photograph, taken outside Le Caprice). Originally founded in 1947, the venue behind The Ritz was closed three years ago by its most recent owner, […]
For many, Turkish cuisine in London was confined to classic kebabs or fast casual pide. Esra Muslu became a force to change that when she opened Zahter. Muslu has been described as a visionary talent. Hailing from Istanbul, the 44-year old had a hugely successful and diverse career, quietly showcasing how diverse and impactful the […]
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The Sustainable Restaurant Association on why restaurants should place a high importance on the role within their communities Gathering together to eat has been a fundamental part of what it means to be human since our earliest days. While we shared handfuls of foraged berries while sheltering from the rain or hunkered together around a […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 3rd September 2023. ***** The Observer “The neo-Byzantine, gold-tiled glories of the Criterion on Piccadilly Circus have finally got the restaurant both they and London deserve.” Jay Rayner visited the new, grand, branch of Masala Zone on a much-revamped site […]
Ambitious Wandsworth town restaurant London Stock is to open a second branch next month in the heart of Mayfair – a move that brings its young team into direct competition with some of the culinary world’s big hitters. London Stock was launched three years ago as the flagship dining destination at Wandsworth’s new ‘Ram Quarter’, the […]