Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant, Veeraswamy, is facing closure on the eve of its centenary with its landlord, the Crown Estate, declining to renew the lease on its premises, just off Piccadilly Circus in Regent Street. The Crown Estate says it needs the first-floor restaurant’s street-level entrance so it can renovate the offices above in the […]
Claude and Lucy Bosi are launching a second branch of their hit French restaurant Josephine next week – this time it’s in Marylebone, and takes its cues from Paris instead of Lyons. Set in the former Daylesford Organic site on Blandford Street, the new venue is inspired by the 19th-century brasseries of the French capital, […]
Adolfo de Cecco, chef-patron of Hackney superstar Casa Fofò, is to open a neighbourhood restaurant and wine bar in Stoke Newington next week called Bianca’s. Named after his daughter, Bianca’s is expected to follow a similar approach to its big sister, focusing on seasonal British ingredients from small-scale producers, but at a lower price-point. It […]
An ambitious neighbourhood bar and bistro called Sonder opens in Cardiff on Easter Monday, in the venue on Canton’s Llandaff Road that operated as a cafe called Outpost until this month. The new restaurant is the brainchild of Jake Lewis, until recently executive chef of Pasture steakhouses in Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham, with top Welsh […]
Bar Kroketa, the tapas bar from the team behind Spanish import specialists Brindisa, has taken over José Pizarro’s former site in Broadgate Circus near Liverpool Street station, which it will open as its third and biggest branch next month. Chef/restaurateur José Pizarro announced the closure of his only venue in the City last December, after […]
Boath House in northern Scotland has reopened under a new guise with chef Iain Nicholson running the kitchens, just two months after its sudden closure. The Georgian mansion near Nairn, northeast of Inverness, had operated since 2022 as a ‘bohemian retreat’ under artist/entrepreneur Jonny Gent alongside chef Florence Knight, reprising the formula behind their Sessions […]
Diners can eat their greens ‘on the farm’ just a minute from Tottenham Court Road station, at a new restaurant with an on-site vertical hydroponic kitchen garden. The Orangery has more than 35,000 plants growing on-site – said to be equivalent to an acre of traditional farmland. Operated by Square Mile Farms, the operation is billed […]
New dining pub the Kerfield Arms opens in Camberwell next week, from the team behind The Baring in Islington. Formerly known as the Crooked Well, it is on the corner of Grove Lane and Kerfield Crescent. Expectations are high following the success of The Baring. Opening in 2022, it won immediate praise in the annual […]
Upscale Japanese omakase restaurant Hannah, in the former County Hall building on the South Bank of the Thames, has relaunched as Donabe Hannah – London’s first Japanese claypot cooking specialist – with a new wood-fire concept to follow in Stratford, East London. Hannah won increasing recognition over a seven-year run for its Kyoto-style tasting menus under former […]
Jason Atherton’s former Mayfair flagship, Pollen Street Social, reopened without advance publicity this week as Motcomb’s Tavern, the latest incarnation of the long-running establishment that closed in Belgravia earlier this year. The move ends Jason’s association with the site where he launched his stellar career as a restaurateur in his own right, after leaving Gordon […]
