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Restaurateur Mandy Yin is to launch an as yet unnamed new Malaysian takeaway next door to her acclaimed laksa spot Sambal Shiok. Yin, who has for some time supplied some of London’s best laksa from her small restaurant in Islington, said the venture will be “a completely separate concept to Sambal, a community-minded quick lunch […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 12 January 2020. Bistro 46, Newcastle “It took me a while to get to Bistro 46, but I’m very pleased I made it.” The Observer’s Jay Rayner was still in the North, and dropped into Newcastle to review a […]
Restaurant MCR, previously known as Manchester House, has closed again. Chef director Aiden Byrne announced the news in the Manchester Evening News and said this time the restaurant has shut for good. MCR relaunched just over a year ago and operated under a two-month rolling lease. But despite glowing reviews – “exceptional food”; “lovely environment” […]
Australian restaurant group the Daisy Green Collection will host an Australia Day celebration in order to raise money for the relief effort in the country as it continues to tackle devastating bushfires. On Saturday 25, Timmy Green in Victoria will host an eight-course tasting menu event, with all proceeds donated to the victims of the […]
Independent London pizza group Zia Lucia is opening its fourth permanent restaurant – in Aldgate East – in February. The move will mark the company’s most central site to date, adding to existing restaurants in Islington, Kensington, and Boxpark Wembley. Claudio Vescovo and Gianluca D’Angelo established the brand in 2016 and it has since become […]
Kym’s in Bloomberg Arcade is set to welcome in the Year of the Rat for Chinese New Year 2020 with a lantern installation, limited edition celebration menu, and a giveaway of 3,000 prize filled fortune cookies. From January 13 to February 9, the interiors will be decorated with an installation of traditional red lanterns, with […]
Plant-based restaurant, Halo Burger, is to open its second site on January 22 on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. The expansion comes after a “successful year” at a site at POP Brixton. Halo Burgers uses Beyond Meat, an increasingly popular plant-based product developed in San Francisco, California. Halo Burger founder Ross Forder said: “We can’t […]
February 2020 will see the acclaimed and near-legendary Indian restaurant Gymkhana reopen its doors following a period of closure for refurbishment. Late last year the site was stricken by a devastating fire, so its relaunch will be welcome indeed. Inspired by the elite clubs of India where members of high society once socialised, are and […]
Restaurateurs Neil Rankin and Handley Amos are to join SALT, a “partnership and experience” agency specialising in food & drink, to head up its new restaurant division The Pepper Collective. The collective has brought together a team of people with a common purpose: “to work with like-minded souls, businesses and enterprises to create new hospitality […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 5 January 2020 – our first round-up of the decade. Allegra, London E20 Grace Dent for The Guardian had a hard time convincing friends to join her for a meal at Allegra. It’s just “so far away” and “Londoners […]
