Prolific Mayfair-based restaurateur Samyukta Nair is to open her first Italian restaurant next week – Nipotina, an all-day family-oriented neighbourhood venue in South Audley Street. Turin-born chef Somaia Hammad (right in photograph) will lead the kitchen, while Luca Dusi (left), of Passione Vino in Shoreditch, has assembled a wine list featuring small and artisanal producers from […]

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Chef Calum Franklin will be baking his famous pies at Harrods as the marquee signing for its relaunched Edwardian-era in-house restaurant, The Georgian, which opens next week. Originally launched in 1911, the glamorous fourth-floor chamber will serve as a flagship for the department store’s ongoing positioning as a gastronomic destination, with outlets from top chefs […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant reviewers were writing about in the week to 27th October 2024. London Standard Fonda, Mayfair David Ellis headed to Heddon Street, which week by week enhances its claim to be the epicentre of gastronomic Mayfair, to visit chef Santiago Lastra’s follow-up to Kol, the all-conquering and decidedly upmarket […]

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Chef Limor Chen and her husband Amir are to launch the third branch of their Eastern Mediterranean restaurant Delamina in Covent Garden next Friday (1 November). They have taken over a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse in Tavistock Street that was formerly occupied by Volta do Mar. Their first two venues, in Marylebone and Shoreditch, […]

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