The famed and well-loved West End restaurant Joe Allen is to reopen after 18 months of closure and will be overseen by a new team including the Polpo co-founder Russell Norman. The restaurant, which has been shut since March 2020, will open for a soft launch from September 17 before fully relaunching in October. Joe […]
Leon is launching an experimental “digital-first” restaurant in London. The 28-cover, 1,340 sq ft site will launch on Kings Road in Chelsea in October. The restaurant will include McDonald’s-style kiosks for digital ordering and payment, which Leon said would free up team members to offer an “elevated level of service”. The menu will include “plant-based […]
Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 5 September 2021 (with links to last week’s reviews when your ROTR editor was on holiday!) ***** The Observer Jay Rayner reviewed Mangal 2, the Dalston Turkish restaurant now run by the sons of the […]
Independent restaurant group Tattu has confirmed its expansion into London and will open its fifth site at Outernet’s The Now Building located in the heart of the city on Denmark Street this winter. Established in 2015, the group opened its first restaurant in Manchester’s Spinningfields district, followed by sites in Leeds, Birmingham and most recently […]
Tom Shepherd will open the much-anticipated first restaurant under his own name on October 8. Upstairs by Tom Shepherd will be a permanent home for thechef’s contemporary cooking, and will be situated on a first-floor restaurant above his father’s jewelry shop in Lichfield, a city on the outskirts of Birmingham in Staffordshire. “The restaurant will […]
British restaurant Rabbit on the Kings Road will be partnering with Double Dutch and premium gin brand Hendricks to launch a bespoke menu paired with these two iconic British drinks brands in celebration of the acclaimed Chelsea Flower Show. The Gladwin Brothers will transform Rabbit for inclusion in Chelsea In Bloom. The design will reflect […]
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen will oversee Stafford London’s Game Bird restaurant from September 14. She will continue her role as executive chef at the Michelin-starred Northcote in Langho, Lancashire, also in the collection. Goodwin-Allen has worked with the Stafford’s executive chef, Jozef Rogulski, to launch a new menu that best showcases British produce. Starters include gala […]
Gordon Ramsay is returning to Scotland to open a branch of Bread Street Kitchen in Edinburgh, some 17 years after his Glasgow restaurant closed. The chef’s company has taken on the former Refinery site at 4-8 St Andrew Square to launch the first in the Bread Street group outside of London. Andy Wenlock, chief executive […]
Chef Dean Banks has launched a crowdfunding campaign to reopen his St Andrews restaurant Haar. The MasterChef: The Professionals 2018 finalist launched Haar at the Kinettles hotel in 2019 but the site closed last April. The chef said he had been unable to reach an agreement with the landlord and is now searching for a new location, but needs […]
The acclaimed Istanbul chef Esra Muslu will open her debut London project, Zahter, just off Carnaby Street in October. Zahter will encompass true “Istanbulite” cuisine, a statement said, “through the lens of home cooking”, and will open for lunch and dinner before offering breakfasts. Esra was previously head chef at Ottolenghi Spitalfields and Istanbul’s Soho House, as well […]
