Mercato Metropolitano (MM) Ilford will finally open next month – five years after first being announced. The wood-framed structure (pictured above during the construction) set in a disused car park in the town’s ‘cultural quarter’ offers street-food entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their cooking in a communal food hall – and is part of the regeneration of […]
A Japanese restaurant that has made a big splash in Taiwan and mainland China will open its first UK site in Soho’s Wardour Street next month. Kanpai Classic specialises in yakinuku, with customers cooking meat and vegetables themselves on a table-top grill. The grilling options will be led by a choice of 10 cuts of […]
JKS Restaurants is to open a large and ambitious new Indian restaurant – their first in five years – in Mayfair this September. Ambassadors Clubhouse is taking over the Heddon Street premises occupied by Moroccan restaurant Momo until 2020, and will feature a ‘maximalist central bar with a gold dome’ in the main dining room. The 140-cover […]
Former Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons head chef Dorian Janmaat is to open his first restaurant next month – Ardor in St Ives, Cornwall, where he will combine his love of his twin childhood homelands, Spain and Cornwall. The restaurant occupies an old house in Fore Street, with seating over two floors as well as at […]
Florentine comfort food concept Dez Amore opens its first permanent restaurant next week, on a corner site in Chelsea with a retro-modern look inspired by Italy in the 1970s. Launched by two friends from Florence, Leonardo Masi and Simone Parentini (pictured), Dez Amore lays claim to a ‘double soul’ that combines traditional Italian cooking with […]
Camilla Fayed’s high-profile plant-based restaurant Farmacy in Westbourne Grove is closing after eight years on Sunday 7 July. No reason has been given for the move. When contacted at the restaurant, a spokesperson said the business’s external events catering arm would remain in operation and an announcement would be made later this year concerning a […]
Irina Linovich’s vegetable-focused project Holy Carrot will open its first bricks and mortar restaurant in Notting Hill next month, with a ‘fire and ferment’-based menu from chef Daniel Watkins, co-founder of Dalston’s ACME Fire Cult. Irina launched Holy Carrot four years ago with a series of supper-club dinners, and the permanent site aims to show […]
A new British Isles-focused restaurant and bar with a strong seafood offer is to open in Greenwich next month. Highroad Social takes over the site of the Rivington Grill, next door to the Picturehouse cinema. Founder David O’Brien is an ex-development director at Caprice Holdings, with an Irish head chef in Fionnan Flood, formerly of The […]
Nottingham dining institution World Service has announced its closure after almost a quarter of a century. It will shut its distinctive red door for the last time on Saturday 3 August – the 24th anniversary of its opening. Set in 17th-century Newdigate House, which it shares with the Nottingham Club, World Service has been on top […]
The three brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca in Girona are to open a restaurant at The Macallan whisky distillery in Scotland this summer. In what is said to be their first venture outside Spain, the brothers will sprinkle their Catalan magic over the local Scottish larder. TimeSpirit, which opens in August at Craigellachie […]
