Chef Henry Harris is reviving his much-missed French restaurant Racine, seven years after it closed in Knightsbridge. The new Bouchon Racine opens in November upstairs at the Three Compasses pub in Cowcross Street, Farringdon. Henry has joined forces with former Goodman and Rockfish director Dave Strauss in the new project, which will consist of a […]
Spurred on by Tottenham’s dearth of good local restaurants, former Quality Chop House staffer Genevieve Sparrow (left in picture), who has lived in the North London area for several years, is opening a new neighbourhood spot on West Green Road next week. Pasero, which started out as a supper club, will launch on Thursday (27 […]
An upmarket Armenian restaurant is set to launch in Mayfair later this month. Lusin, meaning ‘moon’, opens its doors in Hay Hill on 31 October and will accommodate up to 100 diners on two floors. The restaurant originated in Riyadh in 2011, and now has three further branches in Saudi Arabia; this will be its […]
Vegan pasta concept Pastan is scheduled to open its first branch in central Manchester by the end of this month – on the Cross Street site of vegan restaurant Vertigo, which closed down in March. Pastan began life as a lockdown delivery project from Dean Fawcett and Jerome Ibanez, formerly operations director at Bristol-based healthy fast-food […]
Luke Findlay is launching a second branch of his ‘traditionally inauthentic’ ramen concept Supa Ya today, in Peckham’s Rye Lane. The former Berber & Q head chef developed the idea as a supper club in his Hackney flat, mixing Japanese ramen with classic British and European flavours, before road-testing it as a pop-up and opening […]
Blackburn’s Adam and Drew Jones, the brothers behind the Manchester-based Tattu group, are planning to launch a modern ‘Greek fusion’ restaurant called Fenix in the northwest capital’s central Enterprise City area next year. The pair came to prominence with the opening of Tattu – a ‘big night out’ operation inspired by a combination of body art […]
A new upmarket Japanese restaurant has opened in the middle of Newcastle, following a £600,000 refurbishment. Butakun, which means ‘Master Pig’, is next door to the landmark Hotspur pub on Percy Street – and is Tyneside’s second Japanese opening in a matter of weeks following Miso in Ouseburn. Robert Lao, Chin Teow and Charles Tang (left to […]
London’s first new West End theatre for 50 years opens tomorrow (15 October), which should increase footfall in the centre of the city still suffering from the ravages of the pandemic. The Soho Place theatre – or @sohoplace as owners Nimax rather irritatingly prefer it to be known – will have a 70-cover restaurant called Stars, with […]
Sparrow Italia, the spinoff of a large and glitzy Los Angeles restaurant, alights in Mayfair next week when it opens its doors on Tuesday 18 October in the Avery Row site formerly occupied by Mykonos-themed Onima. Sparrow was created last year by AJ McCloud, executive chef of hospitality company Noble 33. Born in Boston and […]
Indian restaurant Mathura in the Old Westminster Fire Station reopens today (11 October) under a new name as Yaatra – less than a year after its launch. The venue in Greycoat Place served its final meals as Mathura on Saturday night. Mathura was billed as high-profile chef Atul Kochhar’s most ambitious venture yet when it […]
