Flor, the Borough Market spinoff from Shoreditch heavyweight Lyle’s, is switching to a bakery-shop format next week under head baker Helen Evans (pictured). The team will also open a new Flor Bakery at Bermondsey’s Spar Terminus on 4 December, selling takeaway bread, pastries and coffee. Flor has operated as a hybrid bakery and small-plates restaurant […]
It’s musical restaurants on the Pavement at Clapham Common, where Lina Stores of Soho, the veteran deli-turned-restaurant, is planning to open in the site vacated last year by The Dairy (RIP), the acclaimed launchpad for chef Robin Gill’s group. Lina is also set to replace Andrew Wong’s Kym’s in the City’s Bloomberg Arcade. Founded in […]
A new Spanish restaurant with “Basque flair”, Andanza, has opened on Weston Street in Bermondsey. Opposite the Rose pub (under the same ownership), Andanza, a 30 cover site, sits in a former bookmaker’s. In Spanish, the name means “fate” or “fortune”. Paulina Irzyk has joined Andanza as head chef from Basque restaurant Lurra in Marylebone, […]
Former Fat Duck chef and sommelier duo Jonny Lake and Isa Bal will open a restaurant and wine bar in Bermondsey this year. Trivet is planned to launch in autumn in the new Snowfields Yard development. The duo have described their venture as an “informal, high-quality dining restaurant utilising the finest ingredients and wines”. Lake, […]
Leandro Carreira’s Bermondsey restaurant Londrino has closed, according to reports. Londrino opened in November 2017 and has received mixed reviews from pretty much everyone over its 18-month shelf life. Reporters’ thoughts have always been hugely variable, ranging from “not only stunning visually, but with exceptional flavour”, to “up itself, lacking generosity”, and “disappointing”. Before setting […]
Tom Sellers, the chef behind two Sunday Times top 100 restaurants (Story in Bermondsey and the Lickfold Inn in West Sussex), has launched a new venture in South Ken today (19 May). Restaurant Ours takes over the former site of The Collection (RIP) on Brompton Road. Accessed by a dramatic 30-metre ‘catwalk’ entrance, which was originally […]
A new Middle Eastern restaurant, nestled between Clapham and Wandsworth Commons, will open this June offering south Londoners a taste of the Caspian with influences from Iran and Turkey. JAN, on Clapham’s Northcote Road, boasts an impressive, medieval-style charcoal oven for traditionally cooked meat, bread and veg dishes, as well as innovative cocktails set in a […]
Following sell-out runs in 2014, Scottish pop-up Dram & Smoke is returning to it’s former home in a leather tannery warehouse in London Bridge for four weeks this winter, from Friday 27 November. As usual with D&S, robust fare that’s all about celebrating the best of Scottish produce will be served from an open kitchen […]
Shackfuyu, the sister restaurant to Bone Daddies and Flesh & Buns, which opened last February as a 12-month pop-up in Soho, will host a two day residency at Bone Daddies workshop in Bermondsey this weekend. Under the railway arches around the corner from Maltby and Druid Street markets, the Shackfuyu residency will be a ticketed […]
The 200 Club @ The Factory on Tanner Street, Bermondsey 3-4 September Do you love the variety and surprise of a lengthy tasting menu, or loathe the endless parade of minuscule portions? If the former you’ll be salivating at the prospect of a new partnership between ‘culinary deviants’ Bompass & Parr and Bespoke Offers – a […]
