Jason Atherton is to close his Mayfair flagship, Pollen Street Social, this summer after 13 years. The last service will be on July 31. The restaurant was a huge hit when it opened in 2011 and propelled Jason, a former right-hand man to Gordon Ramsay, into the limelight as one of London’s foremost chef-restaurateurs. He […]
Jesus Adorno has quit as director of Arlington, Jeremy King’s comeback restaurant on the former site of Le Caprice in St James’s – less than a month after it opened. He announced his decision this week in an Instagram post reading: “With great sorrow I handed my notice this morning to @jeremyrbking @arlingtonrestaurant, it wasn’t a […]
The former head chef at Northeast regional powerhouse Winteringham Fields is to launch his first restaurant in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth next month. Gareth Bartram and his wife Lucy have taken over the Auction House restaurant in Louth’s Cornmarket, whose previous owners shut up shop last May after four years, citing ill health […]
Chef Jackson Boxer is to open a new French bistro called Henri in Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel this spring. The new venture is a collaboration with the Paris-based Experimental Group, with whom he opened a highly rated restaurant at Cowley Manor in the Cotswolds last year. He also runs Brunswick House and Orasay in London. […]
The team behind Medlar in Chelsea are to launch their first follow-up restaurant this summer. Cornus will occupy the top floor with rooftop terrace of the Ice Factory, a repurposed early Victorian industrial building in Belgravia’s Eccleston Yards. Chef Joe Mercer Nairne and his co-owner David O’Connor opened Medlar in 2011, and it is one […]
Muswell Hill institution Toff’s, for more than 50 years one of London’s best-known family-run chippies, has been acquired by a national group which plans to open more branches under the same name. The business was taken over this week by The Chesterford Group (TCG), which is based in Bishop’s Stortford and operates 44 sites across […]
A new trattoria is opening in Earls Court next week promising a modern take on traditional Italian cuisine, with pizzas and pastas served at a communal central table. A Braccetto – meaning arm-in-arm or side-by-side – offers such contemporary flourishes as hand-crafted pasta, zero-waste pickled vegetables and organic wine. But more importantly, it is a testament to […]
A new southern Mediterranean-inflenced bistro featuring an open kitchen with cooking over wood fire launches in Marylebone this Saturday (16 March). Lita is headed by Luke Ahearne, ex-head chef at Corrigan’s in Mayfair, and Canadian-born first-time restaurateur Daniel Koukarskikh (left and right in picture), with backing from the duo behind Wild Tavern in Chelsea and […]
The Groucho Club has chosen Wakefield in West Yorkshire as the venue for its first spinoff, which it plans to open in 2026. Now part of Artfarm, the hospitality wing of Swiss contemporary art dealership Hauser + Wirth, the Groucho is taking over Bretton Hall, a former stately home whose 500-acre estate incorporates Yorkshire Sculpture […]
Petersham Nurseries, the famously bucolic restaurant in a garden centre on the edge of Richmond Park, has appealed against a council order that would block evening opening. The move is the culmination of an astonishing 18-year stand-off between the restaurant and Richmond Council involving protracted negotiations but no prospect of agreement. The venue has now […]
