Artfarm, the hospitality arm of the Hauser + Wirth international art dealership, is to open its latest restaurant tomorrow – back where it began 10 years ago, at H+W’s rural art gallery on Durslade Farm near Bruton in Somerset. Da Costa restaurant is named after co-founder Iwan Wirth’s Italian grandfather, who was born in the village […]
A new French deli, bakery and ‘canteen’, Café François, is to open next week in Borough Yards, taking over the two-storey former Paul Smith shop on the edge of Borough Market. It is a spinoff from Maison François in St James’s, founded four years ago by François O’Neill and already established as a West End […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 1st September 2024 Evening Standard Mauby, Brockley Jimi Famurewa was very taken by “this immensely likeable slice of British-Caribbean cool” from married couple Daniel and Heleena Maynard, who previously operated Deptford’s Jerk Off BBQ and showcase the Jamaican and […]
Acclaimed Nottingham Japanese skewer-inspired restaurant Kushi-Ya is moving to larger new premises in the city centre next week, with co-head chef Simon Carlin reassuring fans that it will be “same vibe, just more space“. The new address is in Enfield Chambers, down an alleyway off Low Pavement, following eight years in Long Row West. The […]
Chef Selin Kiazim returns to the London food scene next week with the opening of Turkish restaurant Leydi in the new Hyde hotel near the Old Bailey in Farringdon – 18 months after the closure of her Shoreditch spot Oklava. Selin has vowed to “put Turkish food on the map” with the new venture, saying that […]
Revivalist brewer Jamie Allsopp is opening a new pub in Kensington next month, the Blue Stoops, in the next step of his resurrection of Allsopp’s, the brewery named after his seven times great-grandfather Samuel Allsopp. The brewery was founded almost 300 years ago in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire – a world leader in the industry – and […]
A new restaurant and bar with one of the most spectacular vistas in London’s West End opens on Monday. The appropriately named Kitty Hawk perches on top of the Page 8 Hotel in St Martin’s Place, with a bird’s-eye view over Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s Column. Kitty Hawk takes over a rooftop site with an […]
Mimosa restaurant at the Langham hotel and the Thames Foyer at the Savoy have closed down – the latter to be replaced by the new Savoy Lounge as the hotel’s venue for afternoon tea. Mimosa opened less than six months ago as a replacement for Michel Roux’s Roux at the Landau, and was the London outpost […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th August 2024 The Sunday Times Daquise, South Kensington Charlotte Ivers may not have discovered a new restaurant, but she scored a genuine scoop in her review of this legendary and much-loved Polish institution (est. 1947), breaking the news […]
The brother-and-sister duo behind north London Nigerian tapas spot Chuku’s have revealed ambitious plans to spin the concept out on a national scale with half a million pounds in funding. Emeka (left in picture) and Ifeyinwa Frederick launched Chuku’s – billed as ‘London’s first Nigerian tapas restaurant’ – in Seven Sisters in 2020, after several years experimenting […]
