Veteran Soho restaurant Quo Vadis is to double in size following a major refurb in January. Owners the Hart Brothers say the work will provide a “grander and more spacious restaurant” befitting the cooking of acclaimed chef-partner Jeremy Lee (pictured). Having opened in 1926, Quo Vadis is rare among older restaurants in that it trades […]
The Hart Brothers will open a fifth branch of their flagship Barrafina tapas bar next Saturday in Borough Yards, the extension of the Borough Market food hub developed under the redbrick Victorian railway arches. The new Barrafina, which glories in the address of “2 Dirty Lane”, constitutes the final link in the Harts’ Borough Yards […]
The Hart Brothers will open a branch of their smash-hit Barrafina tapas bars along with two other venues in the new Borough Yards development adjacent to Borough Market early next year. It will be the first foray south of the Thames for Barrafina, the highest-rated Hispanic in the most recent Harden’s survey and the only […]
Restaurants across the country will reopen from 4 July after the government finally announced a further implementation of lockdown easing. It means scores of businesses will be allowed to host diners once more, though will be required to complete risk assessments and factor in one metre-plus social distancing measures to ensure customers are as safe […]
Mayfair hotspot Sabor is looking to open a second restaurant in Soho, reports say. Planning documents submitted to Westminster Council name Sabor and JKS Restaurants in a proposed opening on Lexington Street. Former Barrafina head chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho and José Etura set up Sabor in February 2018 and there might only have been vague […]
London’s latest restaurant and shopping ‘quarter’ opens today. Coal Drops Yard is the superb new addition to King’s Cross, just around the corner from Granary Square. It is a beautiful restoration of Victorian brick sheds built in the 1850s to transfer coal from rail to road. On Wednesday of this week we dropped in for […]
Corbin & King will open a new restaurant in St John’s Wood, London, in the new year. Soutine will be in keeping with the area’s strong heritage, reports say, with King previously suggesting it would be a little ‘Colbert meets Fischer’s’. Still, we don’t know too much about the restaurant yet. Unless there’s to be […]
José SE1 “I’d travel here from Spain for the pluma Iberica!”– José Pizarro’s original Bermondsey tapas bar “somehow has the edge over the competition”serving some of “the best tapas you will find”… “if you can get in (it’s always heaving)”. Barrafina (group) “The wait can sometimes be twice the time spent at the counter”, […]
This storming little Pan-Asian pop-up from Scott Hallsworth (founder of Kurobuta) and Phar Shaweewan finds a permanent home in Soho’s Frith Street, in what was once the original Barrafina premises. Freak Scene fuses Japanese, Singaporean and Malay cooking, as well as adding some South American inspiration in the form of Miso-grilled black cod tacos with […]
Nieves Barragán Mohacho and José Etura, who met working at Barrafina, have announced their new venture Sabor will open on 1 February. The Spanish restaurant with additional bar and asador (wood-fired oven) arrives in Heddon Street, Mayfair, next month. Sabor will stagger its opening dates with the restaurant and bar launching at lunchtime on Thursday 1 February, […]
