Idris Elba – actor, DJ, rapper, producer, activist and self-style Renaissance man – opens his first wine bar and restaurant next week, in Coal Drops Yard at King’s Cross. With 800 wines in stock and space for 70 guests, Porte Noire is being promoted as ‘one the largest fine wine tasting rooms in London’. London-born Elba, […]
Bodega Rita’s, the Coal Drops Yard sandwich shop and deli set up by Rita’s founders Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce, is to launch a guest series alongside some of London’s better-known chefs. Bodega opened at the new Coal Drops Yard development in December, and serves New York-style sandwiches, pastries, and lighter dishes. Creations include pork […]
Not content with three new restaurants in the buzzing Coal Drops Yard, the Hart brothers’ Barrafina team will be launching another in 2019. Parrillan will be a casual terrace bar and grill – a partially covered space with room for 100 diners. The menu will be meat, fish, and seafood-led, with an emphasis on foods cooked […]
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 […]
Anthony Demetre is the latest name to throw his hat into the ring at the new Coal Drops Yard development, in King’s Cross. The Wild Honey chef will open Vermuteria Café & Bar at the site in October this year, joining the likes of Pip Lacey’s Hicce and The Drop – a wine bar from the […]
