A new British Isles-focused restaurant and bar with a strong seafood offer is to open in Greenwich next month. Highroad Social takes over the site of the Rivington Grill, next door to the Picturehouse cinema. Founder David O’Brien is an ex-development director at Caprice Holdings, with an Irish head chef in Fionnan Flood, formerly of The […]
Jason Atherton is to open a new ‘British brasserie’ called Sael on the former site of Aquavit in St James’s Market, off Piccadilly Circus. The announcement follows Jason’s decision go close his Mayfair flagship, Pollen Street Social, this summer. Dale Bainbridge, currently executive chef at Pollen Street, will lead the kitchen at the new venture. […]
A team from Fenn, the Fulham restaurant that closes for good at the end of this month, will this summer open an intriguing combination of chef’s table and cocktail bar, championing lesser-known British ingredients and whiskeys from the American South. The project, close to Old Street station in Shoreditch, has been put together by chef […]
Chef Robbie Lorraine has swapped a shipping container at Pop Brixton for a Grade II listed Jacobean manor house in Kent in one of the year’s most spectacular changes in workplace scenery. South Londoner Robbie, who has cooked at Chelsea FC among other places, gained rave reviews for Only Food and Courses, the retro-inspired pop-up […]
A new all-day British brasserie opens in London’s Theatreland next Wednesday. St Martin’s House occupies a site at the top of St Martin’s Lane near Seven Dials in Covent Garden, formerly occupied by Tredwell’s (RIP). The three-storey venue is open every day of the week and has a menu of classic British dishes including Cornish […]
GBR – for Great British Restaurant – is the straight-to-the-point name of a new all-day dining venue opening in Dukes, the St James’s hotel, in May. Chef Nigel Mendham, who has worked in country house hotels including the Samling in the Lake District, South Lodge in Sussex and the Lygon Arms in the Cotswolds, has […]
Food-obsessed cousins Mark Kimber (left in photo) and Harry Smith are opening Plot, a bijou 15-seat restaurant, in a converted market stall inside historic Tooting Broadway Market on January 11. The pair both grew up in Tooting, and have hired chef Giles Estob to design a menu of small plates reflecting their interest in seasonal British produce. Meat will […]
Mayfair’s long-standing purveyor of “great steaks” and acclaimed pies – the Guinea Grill – will open for Sunday lunch for the first time since WW2. The quaint pub, “in a back mews in the heart of posh London”, will start serving roasts from 12 June. Owned by Young’s, the Guinea Grill is now under the […]
From restaurateur frères extraordinaire Claude (Hibiscus W1) & Cedric Bosi (The Charlton Arms, Ludlow) – a new pub-with-rooms close to Esher Common – The Swan Inn launches today (20 May). The brothers have described the menu (overseen by Claude but delivered by head chef Justin West) as ‘English food from a Frenchman’; however it features traditional pub […]
Demonstrating just how far cooking in this country has come in the last 20 years – the top 10 modern British restaurants in London, according to our 2015 survey. The Ledbury W11 “Superb meals seem natural”, at Brett Graham’s “flawless” Notting Hill stand-out: yet again London’s No. 1 restaurant; there’s “no pomp” – staff […]
