A Ukrainian bar specialising in “nalivka”, or infused vodkas, has opened in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia. Pinch also serves themed cocktails, such as the Kharkiv and the Kyiv mule, and a tapas-style menu of snacks and simple dishes. Conceived as a “modern take on traditional Ukrainian heritage”, Pinch has been launched by Yana Galiyeva and her […]
This January, the 80-cover Ampéli restaurant, from founder Jenny Pagoni, will open its doors on Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia. Taking cues from the modern wine-focused restaurants of Athens, Ampéli will feature dishes inspired by both Greek and Eastern Mediterranean cultures, which will be accompanied by a list of indigenous wines from across the Greek mainland. […]
Just months after launching Gloria in Shoreditch, the Big Mamma group will open Circolo, another large, frenetic and imposing Italian restaurant, this time in Fitzrovia. The “vibrant and sunny” 280-cover restaurant will feature more than 20,000 bottles of spirits along the walls, thousands of festoon lights, an outdoor terrace, and an “over the top” menu. […]
Big Mamma, an Italian restaurant group from Paris, is soon to open two sites in London. The group announced an opening in Shoreditch in autumn last year, and news now comes that it is also set to launch on Rathbone Square in Fitzrovia. That’s the latest update, anyway, from a business owner local to the […]
A new all-day restaurant Mortimer House Kitchen is set to open on the ground floor of soon-to-launch private workspace and wellbeing destination Mortimer House in Fitzrovia. The menu from ex-Cecconi’s chef Luca Unali is Mediterranean with a flavour of the Middle East and will focus on fresh, sustainable and organic produce. Situated in an art deco […]
You wait years for a restaurant from the old Silk Road to arrive in London, then two open in the same month. Samarkand, named after the oldest inhabited city in central Asia, has already launched in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, with a menu led by the Uzbek national dish plov (pictured), beef short ribs cooked to […]
Founders of Bao – the über-popular street-food-vendor-turned-permanent-Soho-restaurant – Wai Ting Chung, Shing Chung and Erchen Chang, opened a second site for their Taiwanese steamed buns today (7 July). The trio have taken over the former site of Boopshis in Fitzrovia. Bao Fitzrovia will hopefully go some way towards calming the ravenous hoards queuing 100-deep outside the […]
Calling all rosé fans (and Molly Ringwald fans of course!) we’ve got a fantastic competition prize up for grabs. Harden’s has teamed up with Fitzrovia’s new café-cum-artisan-food-store, The Larder, to offer one lucky reader the chance to win two tickets to their ‘Pretty in Pink’ wine evening. Enjoy a wine flight of rosé; from a classic […]
On Thursday, the world will raise a glass to St Patrick’s Day – a celebration of Ireland and its rich cultural history, but mostly a time when revellers drink too much Guinness. For those who would rather not spend 17 March down the pub, Harden’s has got some great suggestions on where in London you can […]
A new flagship version of Vietnamese restaurant House of Ho has opened on the former site of Caprice Holdings’ Bam-Bou. The original, which opened in Soho’s Old Compton Street nearly two years ago, has been relaunched as simply ‘Ho’. Its celebrity chef founder, Bobby Chinn, has since left the business and a new owner, Jeff Lim, […]
