JKS Restaurants is to open a large and ambitious new Indian restaurant – their first in five years – in Mayfair this September. Ambassadors Clubhouse is taking over the Heddon Street premises occupied by Moroccan restaurant Momo until 2020, and will feature a ‘maximalist central bar with a gold dome’ in the main dining room. The 140-cover […]
JKS Restaurants have revealed plans to open a new Arcade Food Hall next year at Battersea Power Station. It follows the delayed launch earlier this year of their original Arcade, in the Centrepoint building by Tottenham Court Road station. JKS made the announcement via Twitter: “We’re creating a number of exciting new brands showcasing even […]
Saborcito, the first spinoff from Nieves Barragan Mohacho’s smash hit restaurant Sabor, is among the big draws at the relaunched Arcade Food Hall below London’s landmark Centre Point tower. Saborcito will serve Hispanic tapas and fresh seafood in the style that earned Nieves accolades as the chef behind the Barrafina group. Initially launched as Arcade […]
Iranian streetfood specialist Berenjak is replacing James Lowe’s Flor bakery and wine bar on the edge of Southwark’s Borough Market, in a reshuffle of businesses backed by JKS Restaurants. Chef Kian Samyani (pictured) has won high praise for the original Berenjak, which opened in Romilly Street, Soho in 2018, with the new Harden’s 2022 guide […]
Star chef James Knappett has teamed up with his backers JKS (Gymkhana, Hoppers) and publican Dominic Jacobs (The Running Horse, Mayfair) to open their second London pub in the space of six months. The George in Fitzrovia is a beautifully restored grand Victorian Grade II-listed pub with an Italianate corner site frontage. It is open […]
The Cadogan Arms pub in Chelsea will relaunch in July with the backing of star investors including JKS Restaurants founders Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi. The project is being led by Dominic Jacobs of the Running Horse pub in Mayfair, with James Knappett of the Kitchen Table in London’s Fitzrovia overseeing the menu as culinary […]
The JKS Restaurants (the group is as busy as ever) stalwart Chet Sharma has announced the launch of a new contemporary Indian restaurant in Mayfair. Now the home to countless upscale Indian restaurants – even with the notable departure of Indian Accent – it seems the perfect spot for BiBi, which will sit on the […]
JKS Restaurants has launched home delivery services across much of its group, with takeaway now available from Gymkhana and Brigadiers for the first time. The restaurant company has also broadened the delivery radius’ and added locations to Hoppers, Berenjak, and Motu, and created a takeaway-only brand, Rice Error, through BAO. More concepts are in the […]
Harden’s unveiled the winners of its definitive 2019 London Restaurant Awards at a glittering gala ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of The Langham, London, sponsored by England’s finest sparkling wine, Gusbourne. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 29-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers. This year, 7,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the […]
Barely a couple of months after Brigadiers opened at Bloomberg Arcade, the JKS Restaurants team is back with another concept. This time, it’s Berenjak, a classic take on an Iranian kebab house – more specifically, the hole-in-wall establishments of busy, bustling cities such as Tehran. The group’s Karam, Jyo and Sunaina Sethi are working with founder […]
