An Indian food truck in a small Cheshire town is to spawn three permanent restaurants after appearing on the Hairy Bikers’ TV Christmas Special. Sunitha Southern, owner of the Indian Goat in Bollington, near Macclesfield, is planning to open branches in Bollington, Manchester and Northeast England – and she’s set her sights on bagging a Michelin […]
A “rock star” line-up of professionals from some of London’s top restaurants have banded together for the launch of a new British bistro in Notting Hill. Dorian is scheduled to open October in the former premises of Raoul in Talbot Road. Founder Chris D’Sylva, the owner of two high-profile local food shops, Notting Hill Fish […]
Arguably the most ambitious New Zealand eating and drinking venue to open in Europe launches tomorrow, Saturday 20 August, in Manchester’s £750 million Circle Square redevelopment, off Oxford Street. Tahi, meaning ‘one’ or ‘together’ in the Māori language, is a 102-seater all-day restaurant and bakery that showcases Kiwi specialities from coffee, pastries and brunch plates […]
A pair of Brighton-based chefs with origins on different continents will this month launch a small restaurant that explores the Columbian exchange of spices and flavours between the ‘Old World’ of Europe and Asia and the ‘New World’ of the Americas. Kanthi Kiran Thamma (left in photo) from Hyderabad in south India and Diego Ricaurte […]
A new steakhouse, Block Soho, opens in St Anne’s Court, Soho next week on the site formerly occupied by another steakhouse, Zelman Meats, which closed here in March last year. Block Soho is the second launch of the summer from Roger Payne’s Enhanced Hospitality group, following the opening last month of the Maddox Tavern in […]
Adam Reid – whose eponymous restaurant ‘at The French’ in Manchester’s Midland Hotel is probably the grandest restaurant in the city – will throw a light on humbler tastes with his latest project, The Butty Shop, which opens next Friday, 26 August, in the smart New Century Hall food court. The Butty Shop will celebrate […]
Food hall mania is continuing to grip the country, with three multiple-kitchen venues opening in and around London – and another in Manchester – in a matter of weeks, in addition to the high-profile ‘Arcade’ openings from industry leaders JKS in the Centre Point building in April and, next year, Battersea Power Station. Earlier this […]
John Javier’s Middle Eastern-inspired restaurant The Tent (at the end of the universe) at members’ club 17 Little Portland Street in Fitzrovia will open to the public next Wednesday, 17th August. Ex-Noma chef John Javier launched the restaurant in February, serving tabbouleh, humus and taramasalata to guests sitting on low stools under canvas-hung ceilings, accompanied […]
JKS Restaurants have revealed plans to open a new Arcade Food Hall next year at Battersea Power Station. It follows the delayed launch earlier this year of their original Arcade, in the Centrepoint building by Tottenham Court Road station. JKS made the announcement via Twitter: “We’re creating a number of exciting new brands showcasing even […]
Soho’s legendary Groucho Club, a magnet for hell-raisers since Oliver Reed and Ken Russell (pictured) attended the opening party in 1985, has been acquired by the Artfarm hospitality group for a reported £40 million. Owned by Swiss art dealers Manuela and Iwan Wirth, Artfarm began as a museum café at the country offshoot of their […]
