Two new Latin American restaurants are opening almost simultaneously in east London – Chakana, bringing Peruvian cuisine to Broadway Market in London Fields, and Chayote with a Mexican-Peruvian-Spanish mix in St Katharine Docks. Chakana marks the return to London of Robert Ortiz, who was the chef behind Fitzrovia restaurant Lima, which opened to wide acclaim in […]
A new wagyu-specialist Japanese restaurant opens in Mayfair next week which is expected to charge an astonishing £750 per person for a meal with wine. Aragawa, on Clarges Street, is the first European branch of a restaurant that originated in 1956 in Kobe, capital of Hyogo prefecture, and home of the best wagyu cattle – it […]
Former Pétrus head chef Larry Jayasekara has teamed up with photographic art gallerist Tim Jefferies to open his first restaurant as patron, The Cocochine in Mayfair. Opening this month, the restaurant is small but lavishly appointed, with “old school” touches such as booking by phone only, no turning of tables and a fully à la […]
Prominent Notting Hill pub the Walmer Castle is to reopen on November 1 under new ownership – its third in quick succession after a turbulent few years. The new owners are Jack and Poppy Greenall, who also own The Surprise in Chelsea – another handsome mid-Victorian tavern – and are working to resurrect it as a “traditional community […]
High-end omakase dining arrives in Hampstead this month with the opening of restaurant Iné, from the team behind Taku in Mayfair. Named after the Japanese for the rice plant before it is harvested, Iné will offer a 15-course omakase (“leave it to the chef”) meal along with a full sushi and sashimi menu at an […]
A new European-style café that morphs into an evening cocktail bar opens near the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden next Thursday, 12 October. Baudry Greene is the latest offering on Endell Street from Will Palmer and Ian Campbell, who also run 10 Cases wine bar and Parsons fish restaurant there – both of which earn […]
In mid-September, the great and good of the Welsh food world, and beyond, descended on Abergavenny for its popular annual food festival. Proud Welsh suppliers, restaurateurs and independent producers flocked to the small Monmouthshire town, but just weeks after these food-fueled celebrations, Abergavenny has lost one of it’s finest restaurants. The Hardwick, operated by chef-owner […]
The much-travelled and highly rated zero-waste restaurant Native is on the move again, having announced the closure of its berth at luxury retailer Browns’ Mayfair flagship store after just over two years. Imogen Davis and Ivan Tisdall-Downes (pictured) broke the “sad and unexpected” news in an Instagram post, saying they would now be hosting a […]
Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng, the chef couple behind the long-running East-meets-West project TATA Eatery , will open their new restaurant Solis in Battersea on October 4 – and this time it is Iberia meets Uruguay. The 80-cover venue is the final addition to the Arcade Battersea food hall, which opened this summer in the former […]
Rosso, the glossy Manchester Italian restaurant co-owned by former footballer Rio Ferdinand, has closed down after 14 years. Its management said it was “the right time to go at the height of our popularity“. Well-known for its inevitable celebrity clientele, Rosso won wider renown in the city for its illuminated Valentine’s Day and Christmas decorations […]
