Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 12 December 2021. ***** The Evening Standard Jimi Famurewa made his “first, long-overdue trip to Rules in Covent Garden” to enjoy the “glittering, timewarp atmosphere that would serve as the perfect way to tie a […]
Star chef James Knappett has teamed up with his backers JKS (Gymkhana, Hoppers) and publican Dominic Jacobs (The Running Horse, Mayfair) to open their second London pub in the space of six months. The George in Fitzrovia is a beautifully restored grand Victorian Grade II-listed pub with an Italianate corner site frontage. It is open […]
Sake No Hana, the smart Japanese restaurant occupying an unusual Grade II-listed Modernist building in St James’s, has been quietly closed down by its owners, the Hakkasan group, bringing to an end its 13-year run. Opened in 2008 by Jamie Barber of Mayfair’s Hush and his business partner Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard, […]
A third-generation chef who virtually grew up in her family’s well-known Southall restaurant has opened a new central London venture under her own name. Dipna Anand Restaurant & Bar in Somerset House, the arts complex on the Strand, shares its Neoclassical accommodation with the Courtauld Gallery and Skye Gyngell’s highly related restaurant, Spring. The first […]
In a welcome piece of good news for Andrew Pern, whose The Star Inn Harome burnt to the ground last month (see picture), York Council has granted planning permission for his latest project, the York Minister Refectory Restaurant on the site of the former Minster School. The chef, who already owns a York gastropub, the […]
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Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 5 December 2021. The Scotsman wins the prize for the first ‘review of 2021’ article. ***** The Evening Standard For one of his last – but definitely not least favourite – meals of the year, […]
A Japanese restaurant that follows a 500-year-old culinary tradition opens in London’s Marylebone next week, complete with a bespoke interior shipped over from Kyoto where it was hand-made by craftsman in century-old hinoki wood. Roketsu, in New Quebec Street, lunches on Tuesday 7 December, and will serve only a ten-course kaiseki menu which changes with […]
Israeli-born Australian chef Roy Ner opened his first restaurant in Europe this week, Jeru in Berkeley Street, Mayfair, bringing his luxurious interpretation of Middle Eastern cuisine to London. The smart restaurant was designed by Melbourne’s Studio Y and has a downstairs cocktail bar, Layla, along with a bakery at the front producing such delicacies as […]
Albert’s Schloss, Manchester’s Bavarian-inspired beerhall and Alpine restaurant, opens a spinoff in Birmingham on Monday (6 December), in the city’s Paradise Forum. Billed as an ‘escape from the modern world’, the Schloss will offer live music and cabaret, a wide range of beers, wines and cocktails, and a menu of rib-sticking classics such as cheese […]
