Southern US fried chicken gets a Tokyo makeover at a new street-food stall that has opened in Vinegar Yard near London Bridge. Lani Lam’s Japanese Chicken Shop combines Nashville-style hot chicken with Japanese ingredients, in a sandwich of classic soft milk bread. Sandos on offer include the Tokyo Hot Chicken (pineapple jam, Kewpie mayo, dark soy caramel, […]
A man has been charged with arson related to the fire that swept through the 14th-century Star Inn Harome in North Yorkshire almost two years ago. The 28-year-old man from nearby Helmsley will appear in Scarborough magistrates court on Monday. The fire swept through the old pub’s 4ft deep thatched roof in November 2021, leaving […]
An ambitious new riverside gastropub is opening in Barnes next month from locally raised Joe Grossman, the founder of the Patty & Bun burger chain, who has put together a crack team to revive The Waterman’s Arms. The mid-Victorian pub is on a prominent corner, but has struggled in recent years first as a branch […]
Jamie Oliver has confirmed that his new Covent Garden restaurant will open in November under the name ‘Jamie Oliver at Catherine Street’. The launch marks the TV chef and writer’s return to the British restaurant scene after the collapse of his mini-empire four years ago – amid heavy hints that other openings will follow. The […]
A tasting-menu restaurant that combines three of the hottest cooking trends – hyper-localism, Japanese and Middle Eastern cuisine – has launched this summer in Lancaster under the name Now Or Never. Jeff Marshall, a former private and development chef, and his wife Nichola, a keen forager who acts as sommelier and runs the front of house, say […]
ROTR was on holiday last week – here’s a two-week summary of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 6 August 2023. ***** The Evening Standard On 26 July, Jimi Famurewa reviewed Gengelly’s at The Earl of Derby of Telegraph Hill, a “handsomely restored Victorian drinking hole on a south-east London backstreet […]
A new high-end steakhouse specifically aimed at women is launching in Warrington this autumn, as a challenge to the genre’s traditional red-blooded macho image. Pendergast’s, in the Cheshire town’s cultural quarter, will serve plant-based dishes including celeriac ‘steaks’ and chalk-stream trout alongside a selection of prime cuts of beef, in a chic environment with no […]
Chef Paul Foster’s debut London venue GrassFed opened this week in a reclaimed Camden railway arch – a far cry from the historic timbered premises of his acclaimed restaurant Salt in Stratford-upon-Avon. As the name suggests, GrassFed showcases British beef and other meat, with a particular focus on ethical sourcing, sustainability and regenerative farming techniques. Much […]
An ambitious Indian restaurant inspired by the coastal areas of the subcontinent’s southern states opens in Leeds this week. Ma-Hé, in the Marrion Centre in the city’s central Arena Quarter, is a debut restaurant from founders Manoj Varma, a spirits consultant with property interests in India, and Leeds-based lingerie entrepreneur Mason Asgha of Delta Connex. […]
A new neighbourhood restaurant bringing “sexy but healthy” food to Barnes opens next week. The Farmer’s Mistress has taken the White Hart Lane site long known for its branch of Annie’s, and more recently the short-lived Camile Thai. Founder Joanna Gascoigne, who already has a Farmer’s Mistress branch in Battersea, has transformed the interior of […]
