Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 25 February 2024 ***** The Evening Standard Tashas, Battersea Jimi Famurewa confessed that it took a trip to Sydney in January to convince him of the attractions of the Antipodean brunch. “And now I have fallen pretty hard for Tashas — […]
Upscale South African all-day café Tashas opens its first European branch next month, in the Battersea Power Station development overlooking the River Thames. Natasha Sideris launched the original Tashas in Johannesburg in 2005, and now has 15 branches across South Africa and another six in the UEA. The brand prides itself on snazzy interior design […]
Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng, the chef couple behind the long-running East-meets-West project TATA Eatery , will open their new restaurant Solis in Battersea on October 4 – and this time it is Iberia meets Uruguay. The 80-cover venue is the final addition to the Arcade Battersea food hall, which opened this summer in the former […]
A new wine bar specialising in pasta cooked by a former River Café chef opens in Battersea today. Archway occupies a railway arch opposite the entrance to Battersea Park and close to the new Battersea Power Station development. The two women behind Archway are Emily Few Brown, who launched the catering company Spook almost ten […]
North Italian-style TOZI Grand Cafe opens on Monday 12 December, as the gastronomic offering at the Battersea Power Station redevelopment in London continues to take shape. Sister restaurant to TOZI in Pimlico and another branch in Amsterdam, it is on the ground-floor of the new art’otel in Electric Avenue, where it will be joined next […]
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 […]
Star Portuguese chef Henrique Sá Pessoa, who trained in London almost 30 years ago, makes his return to the capital later this year with the opening of a new high-rise restaurant in the Battersea Power Station development. JOIA, 15th-floor Iberian restaurant with its own bar on the floor below as well as a rooftop bar […]
Roti King, the legendary Malaysian curryhouse near Euston station, has opened second site in the Battersea Power Station development overlooking the Thames. The new branch is under an arch of the Victoria station railway bridge, where its neighbours include the Battersea Brewery and a boutique cinema. This salubrious setting is in stark contrast to the […]
Another outpost of the well-known Brindisa chain is opening in London. The Spanish food importer and restaurant chain is launching a tapas venue at Battersea Power Station in autumn. There will be a dedicated cheese bar (some of which will be aged in-house) and charcuterie bar, and customers can eat in or take away. The hot […]
Vivek Singh (chef-patron of the Cinnamon Club et al) brings his latest restaurant to London’s iconic Grade II-listed landmark, Battersea Power Station. Housed in a railway arch, Cinnamon Kitchen Battersea is open for brunch, lunch and dinner as well as cocktails and light bites influenced by spices and delicacies found along the Delhi Jaipur Pink City […]
