Veteran Soho restaurant Quo Vadis is to double in size following a major refurb in January. Owners the Hart Brothers say the work will provide a “grander and more spacious restaurant” befitting the cooking of acclaimed chef-partner Jeremy Lee (pictured). Having opened in 1926, Quo Vadis is rare among older restaurants in that it trades […]
The Hart Brothers will open a fifth branch of their flagship Barrafina tapas bar next Saturday in Borough Yards, the extension of the Borough Market food hub developed under the redbrick Victorian railway arches. The new Barrafina, which glories in the address of “2 Dirty Lane”, constitutes the final link in the Harts’ Borough Yards […]
Almost 200 UK restaurants are participating in this year’s Action Against Hunger “Love Food, Give Food” campaign, under which diners are encouraged to add £1 to their bill until the end of October, to help fight hunger both in Britain and around the world. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 265million people at […]
The Hart Brothers will open a branch of their smash-hit Barrafina tapas bars along with two other venues in the new Borough Yards development adjacent to Borough Market early next year. It will be the first foray south of the Thames for Barrafina, the highest-rated Hispanic in the most recent Harden’s survey and the only […]
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 […]
The team behind Barrafina, Quo Vadis and El Pastor have announced news of a new wine bar and bistro. The Drop, which will open at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross in October, will be a wine-led venue, but will have a food offering despite a limited kitchen, with just two induction rings and an oven. Head […]
Cartel, a new taqueria and late-night tequila bar in Battersea, is the latest in the new wave of Mexican taco joints that is sweeping across London. Named in what seems a clear reference to the Mexican narco wars involving drug cartels that have cost 100,000 lives in the past 10 years, the venue must also be an early front-runner in the “poor taste […]
⦿ The Observer’s Jay Rayner reviewed Chop Chop in Edinburgh, which confirmed his view that dumplings are the ultimate comfort food – “While you are eating dumplings nothing bad can happen.” Opened in 2006 by Jian Wang, from Dongbei in northeast China, Chop Chop excels in its dumplings, although its other dishes were more variable […]
Nieves Barragan, head chef at London’s all-conquering Barrafina tapas bars, is leaving the group where she has run the kitchens since the first Barrafina opened in Soho. Group general manager José Etura (pictured) is also leaving to work with her on a new project. Barragan joined the […]
