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Zoë and Layo Paskin (the siblings behind The Palomar and The Barbary) are opening a tiny (and we do mean tiny!) English coffee house in Seven Dials. Jacob the Angel with have just 10 covers and serves breakfast, lunch and tea every day, with takeaway options. It opens its doors at 16 1â„2 Neal’s Yard on […]
L’Autre Pied, “the more casual baby sister of Pied à Terre”, will close its doors for good on 9 September. To thank diners for their custom the restaurant will offer two special menus at lunch and dinner – five course for just £31, or enjoy the full chef’s tasting menu for just £51*. Owner David Moore […]
The Cinnamon Collection’s Vivek Singh and Mark Hix (Hix W1, Hix Oyster & Chop House) will team up on 18 September, combining Vivek’s modern-Indian style with Mark’s upscale British food. The dinner series at Westminster’s impressive Cinnamon Club has already seen Vivek work alongside top chefs José Pizarro (Bermondsey’s José and Pizarro, and José Pizarro in the City) in […]
Chef Craig Atchinson has relaunched his York restaurant Hudson’s by Craig Atchinson as part of the Grand Hotel & Spa’s £15 million refurbishment. The fine dining venue has moved from its previous home to a smaller, adjacent room, reducing covers from 60 to 28 to ‘allow greater focus on culinary excellence’. The restaurant now offers […]
Asian-inspired dishes and cocktails are on offer at Pickled Fred, a new Shoreditch spot off Brick Lane opening on 30 August. As the name suggests, pickles and ferments will feature strongly on both the food and the cocktail menus. The 50-cover restaurant and bar will open for dinner and weekend lunch from Wednesday 6 September at 61 […]
Richard Corrigan has one in his kitchen at Corrigan’s in Mayfair, and now you can too. Harrison Ovens are handmade, solid fuel ovens, lovingly sculpted by designer and engineer Daniel Thumwood in his Kent workshop. The design and development of this state-of-the-art oven was three years in the making, but the company is now taking […]
Open for just a few weeks each year during the House of Lords recess, this dining room at the Palace of Westminster will admit members of the public from 18 September-6 October. Peers’ Dining Room is taking bookings for lunch only via ResDiary from 19 August. A new three-course lunch menu using seasonal British ingredients […]
Marina O’Loughlin in The Guardian reviews Pascere, a new Lanes restaurant from the food and drink editor of Platinum Business magazine, Amanda Menahem. “Brighton is having a bit of a moment restaurant-wise; like Bristol, another beneficiary of the financial pain of attempting to launch any kind of indie in the capital. “The most exquisite thing that […]
Rising young star Adam Handling will plant his flag in the West End on 1 September by opening his second restaurant under The Frog name, in Covent Garden. The new venue is the flagship of a planned group, serving a “more formal” version of the cooking he has developed at The Frog E1, which opened in Spitalfields last year. […]
Michael Bremner, chef-patron of Brighton’s “foodie mecca” 64 Degrees, has launched a new beach-front restaurant overlooking the old West Pier. The restaurant is named Murmur – from the word murmuration, which is the shape that the starlings make when they flock and fly between the city’s two piers. Serving ‘healthy and honest food’, the beach-front restaurant […]
