Our mission is remarkably simple. To tell it how it is!
Arcade, a new central London dining hall – curiously described, by the founders, as an “all-day food theatre” – will launch on July 22 at London’s iconic Centre Point building at Tottenham Court Road. Arcade is Europe’s biggest dining hall. The 12,500 square foot, Grade II-listed space features six independent ground-floor kitchens, a coffee and […]
Following a number of successful pop-up events across London, pan-Middle Eastern restaurant Bubala has secured its first permanent site – on Commercial Street in Spitalfields. The restaurant, pegged to open in autumn (there are a lack of specifics, currently), will be the debut venture of Marc Summers, former general manager at the “cheap and very […]
Multi-award winning chef Simon Rogan has announced a new restaurant. Henrock, described as a new “informally elegant” venture (we’re not sure what that means either), will be set within Linthwaite House in the Lake District, and will open in October. With views over Lake Windermere, Henrock will follow Rogan’s practised and precise culinary style, using […]
Dishoom is to take on a major refurbishment project at its Covent Garden site, which will include expanding into a former Jamie’s Italian next door. The original Dishoom, which opened in 2010, has provided the basis for a now burgeoning group of seven, with branches in London, Manchester, and Edinburgh. The group’s Upper St Martin’s […]
Chef Tom Sellers is to take Restaurant Story to Cornwall for the summer. Sellers will move his entire team down to Carbis Bay, St Ives, for a six-week residency entitled Story by the Sea. The project will not only provide a new setting for Story, but will also allow the chefs to experiment with new […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 14 July 2019. The Newell, Dorset Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times celebrates the restaurants she calls “quietly wonderful” – not the “flashy and splashy and showy and spendy” places chased down (and sometimes closed down) by food critics and hordes of Insta-tourists, […]
Former Fat Duck chef and sommelier duo Jonny Lake and Isa Bal will open a restaurant and wine bar in Bermondsey this year. Trivet is planned to launch in autumn in the new Snowfields Yard development. The duo have described their venture as an “informal, high-quality dining restaurant utilising the finest ingredients and wines”. Lake, […]
Chris Leach, from Pitt Cue, Sager and Wilde, and Kitty Fisher’s, will join David Carter, chef and founder of Smokestak, are going to run a four-month residency in Mayfair. The chefs will take on the first “residency” at the 10 Heddon Street spot, which was most recently the home of Magpie restaurant. It is not […]
Cyrus Todiwala, the chef behind the “excellent” Café Spice Namasté and Goan-Portuguese restaurant Mr Todiwala’s kitchen, is to launch in Leicester. Tandem will focus on “authentic Indian cuisine” from across the country. Rather than honing in on one region or style, as is increasingly the case in London – see the new, more conceptual restaurants […]
Z He and Alex Peffly, the husband and wife team behind Cantonese steamed bun specialists Bun House and the Jian Bing trading stall Pleasant Lady, are to open Wun’s, a 1960s-style Hong Kong tea room and late night bar. Wun’s will be set across two floors in Soho, and will mimic the communal, open-air cafes […]
