A couple of long-term senior staff at Newcastle’s House of Tides have quit their jobs to launch their own ambitious restaurant in Durham – with the blessing of their mentor, House of Tides founder Kenny Atkinson (middle in photo). Jake and Laura Siddle will open Faru on Durham’s Silver Street this spring, offering a seasonal tasting […]
Newcastle Quayside wine-bar and restaurant St Vincent will re-open next week – three years after closing down when the Covid pandemic struck. Owner Terry Laybourne (pictured centre, with Martin Malinowski, left, and Matt Clarkson), has already reopened the other venues in his 21 Hospitality Group. He said: “It feels wonderful to be finally re-opening St Vincent […]
A new wine bar specialising in pasta cooked by a former River Café chef opens in Battersea today. Archway occupies a railway arch opposite the entrance to Battersea Park and close to the new Battersea Power Station development. The two women behind Archway are Emily Few Brown, who launched the catering company Spook almost ten […]
Chef Andrew Sheridan is moving his highly rated tasting-menu restaurant 8 from Birmingham to Liverpool, in a move he describes as a “homecoming” to the city of his birth. The new venue will be close to The Cavern, where The Beatles started out. He said: “Liverpool is my home and when the opportunity arose, we […]
A chef and a sommelier with impressive pedigrees have teamed up to open an ambitious ‘chef’s table’ restaurant in Edinburgh this spring. Eòrna – barley in Gaelic – will have no staff, with the founding pair providing a “pared-back, intimate, yet sophisticated dining experience”. Chef Brian Grigor (left in photo) ran the kitchen of Number One at […]
The Wolseley is to be rolled out as a “brand” in the Far East alongside a more relaxed Café Wolseley sub-brand with branches in Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford, under the ownership of Thai-based Minor International, which took control almost a year ago. Dillip Rajakarier, Minor’s chief executive, outlined plans to open Wolseley restaurants in Hong […]
Leading Birmingham chef Glynn Purnell has opened a tapas bar a street away from his flagship, Purnell’s, in the city’s business district. Plates by Purnell’s occupies the former site of Spanish restaurant Pinchos on Edmund Street. Last year Glynn, aka ‘the Yummy Brummie’, opened The Mount pub in Henley-on-Arden, his first venture outside the Birmingham, […]
Indonesian restaurant Toba opened this week in St James’s Market just off Piccadilly Circus from Pino Edward Sinaga, a former manager at the Chiltern Fire House and Annabel’s, Richard Caring’s private members club in Mayfair. The move into London’s West End marks a significant step up for Pino, who has operated a street-food outfit called […]
Well-known Brighton chefs Isaac Barlett-Copeland and Dave Marrow (right and left in photo) are to open a wood-fire restaurant called Embers in the seaside town’s historic Lanes in early April. Embers will focus on Sussex produce cooked in medieval-style in a metal cage suspended above a fire in the centre of the restaurant. Isaac has […]
Veteran New York-based sushi master Masayoshi Takayama is the latest superstar chef who has agreed to launch an outpost at big-spending Harrods in Knightsbridge. Born into a family that ran a fish shop, Masa did an eight-year apprenticeship in Tokyo’s smart Ginza shopping district before heading to Los Angeles, where his restaurant helped popularise sushi […]
