Former Bonhams chef Tom Kemble has relaunched Chalk restaurant on the Wiston Estate winery, north of Worthing in West Sussex. Tom worked at Faviken in Sweden and Hedone in London before making his name as chef at Bonham’s auction house in New Bond Street in 2015. He progressed to The Pass at South Lodge hotel […]
Our summary of what the national and local restaurant critics were writing about in the week ending 19 February 2023. The Observer “Inventive, geeky and superb.” Jay Rayner visited Matsudai Ramen, the “first dedicated ramen shop in Wales”, which arrived in Cardiff late last year, from an “unexpected source” James Chant, “a one-time musician, tour […]
Former L’Enclume chef Dan Cox opens his ultra-sustainable restaurant Crocadon in St Mellion, Cornwall, today – the culmination of a five-year project that has transformed a 120-acre farm in the Tamar Valley. The 25-cover restaurant with an open kitchen occupies an old barn on the farm, where Dan (pictured, above) has introduced rare-breed cattle and sheep […]
High-profile Edinburgh chef Mark Greenaway is to launch two new restaurants in the same Lake District hotel next month. A self-named restaurant and the more informal Brasserie Thirty Seven will open at the Haweswater Hotel, near the M6 motorway on the edge of the Lakes. Mark is best known for Restaurant Mark Greenaway on Edinburgh’s […]
Smart Australian café brand Daisy Green will open its biggest venue yet in Bishopsgate on the edge of the City of London next Wednesday (19 October). Paradise Green is inspired by the high-rise holiday resort of Surfers Paradise on Queensland’s Gold Coast, where co-founder Prue Freeman spent time as a student. The 10,000 sq ft […]
A Californian-style taco outfit based in southeast London opens its first permanent venue today, after four years of pop-ups, residencies and market stalls. Taca Tacos, from founder Thorne Addyman, is in Arch 12 at Deptford Market Yard. Thorne launched the venture in 2018 following a research trip to the US West Coast and Mexico, initially […]
A tiny, 10-seater Japanese restaurant where husband and wife chefs serve a no-choice “omakase” menu opens in Mayfair tomorrow. Roji is the first venture from the couple, Tomoko Hasegawa and Tamas Naszai, who met while working at another Japanese restaurant, Tokemiete. Roji means alley, appropriately for a restaurant that is tucked away in a courtyard […]
Frieze art fair co-founder Matthew Slotover will open an art-themed boutique hotel and restaurant next month a few minutes’ walk from the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. Fort Road Hotel launches on Monday 1 August after a four-year rebuild, which included adding an additional top floor. There are 14 guest bedrooms, and the ground floor […]
Richmond will see two new riverside restaurants opening in the coming months, as central London-based hospitality brands target the city’s wealthier suburbs for expansion. Aussie brunch specialist Daisy Green is the first out of the traps, launching Peggy Jean (pictured) in a restored barge on 27 July, followed by Mayfair celebrity-magnet fish specialist Scott’s in […]
Vinoteca opens its first wine bar outside London in Birmingham’s new Paradise development on Monday. Close to the Town Hall in the city centre, it will be Brum’s biggest wine bar, accommodating 150 guests on two levels with 40 more on an outdoor terrace. The first Vinoteca opened in Farringdon in 2005, and there are […]
