The chef duo behind popular Finsbury Park food pub The Plimsoll will next month open an ‘Iberian fish bar’, Tollington’s, in a former chippy nearby. Ed McIlroy and Jamie Allan, who first made their mark as Four Legs at the Compton Arms, are retaining the tiling, formica floors and fish fryers at the venue, which […]
Edinburgh restaurateur Tony Crolla is set to open a £3 million fish and chip restaurant in a former church. Crolla will launch a “contemporary”, 270-cover restaurant across three floors at St John’s church in Victoria Street. The restaurant, as yet unnamed, will offer an affordable menu, with traditional British dishes each given an inventive twist. […]
Gilly’s Fry Bar is to move to the West End after a successful opening in Finsbury Park. Neil Gill, who styled the restaurant on the Sunderland chip shops of his youth and a classic Japanese izakaya (pub), closed Gilly’s on Wednesday with a more central launch to come later this year. “We’ve had such a […]
Seafood specialist Bonnie Gull (Fitzrovia and Soho) steps outside of the capital for the first time with the launch of Salt ‘n’ Sauce at Westgate Social in Oxford’s newly opened Westgate mall. Alongside traditional fish and chips (fresh North Sea haddock coated in tempura beer batter, served with triple cooked beef dripping chunky chips) there […]
⦿ AA Gill of the Sunday Times opened his review of The Magpie Café 5/5 in Whitby with the bombshell that he has cancer, an announcement that – uniquely perhaps for a restaurant review – was trailed by a front-page report. “I’ve got an embarrassment of cancer, the full English,” he wrote, promising to let his readers know […]
None of our readers go for the décor, but then that’s not what chippies are about. It’s the “spankingly fresh” fish and chips that attract diners to Kerbisher & Malt, the growing chain of chip shops about to launch its fifth London site. Kerbisher & Malt EC1 will open in foodie hub Exmouth Market on […]
London’s oldest fish and chip shop (they claim) – Rock & Sole Plaice – has its sights set on major expansion with three new London sites planned and outposts being considered in Manchester, Birmingham and even the Middle East. Four shops are expected over the next five years, initially in Soho, London Bridge and St […]
This Good Friday go traditional with a nice bit of fish for tea. And just in case you don’t want to fry or grill it up yourself, we’ve rounded up London’s best places to get a lovely fillet ‘o’ fish… Toff’s N10 £39 “The freshest fish, simply served” (“and not just the usuals”) – […]
