RAI, a highly rated but short-lived Fitzrovia omakase that closed down last year, is to reopen next week at a new address not far away, in Bloomsbury. The new venue has tables for just 10 guests, who will pay £130 a head for a set meal, while another eight sit at a sushi counter with […]
Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, the Israeli foodie power couple behind Honey & Co, are to open a new daytime venue in Bloomsbury this September. Honey & Co Daily, in Store Street off Tottenham Court Road, will combine a deli and takeaway with a 40-seat dining room open during the day, which will operate as […]
Riding House Bloomsbury opens next week in the Brunswick Centre, 10 years after Adam White (right in picture) opened the original Riding House Café in nearby Fitzrovia, pitched at creating the feeling of “a members’ club without membership”. The all-day operation will serve brunch and a modern brasserie menu that takes in multicultural influences from […]
Ground-breaking Middle Eastern cafe-restaurant Honey & Co has found a new home in Bloomsbury, where it will reopen later this spring after 10 years in Fitzrovia. Husband-and-wife founders Sarit Packer and Itamar Svrulovich (pictured above) were forced into the move when their landlord declined to extend the lease on the Warren Street premises. The new […]
Brett Redman (Elliot’s, Jidori), and stylist-turned-restaurateur Margaret Crow, have announced their latest joint venture Neptune will open within Bloomsbury’s new 334-room Principal London hotel on 24 May. The neighbourhood restaurant, one of three dining options within the dramatic listed building on the eastern flank of Russell Square, aims to create a ‘Bloomsbury Salon’ for the 21st […]
The Principal London – a new 334-room hotel occupying the former Hotel Russell, a dramatic listed building on the eastern flank of Russell Square – opens next month, vaunting a restaurant c0-created by Brett Redman (Elliot’s, Jidori). Overlooking the iconic Bloomsbury square and clad in Royal Doulton thé-au-lait terracotta, the grande dame was originally designed by […]
