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Legendary Italian deli and restaurant Lina Stores is to open a second site in King’s Cross. The restaurant will launch in autumn and marks 75 years since the first delicatessen opened in Soho. It will be set up in one of King’s Cross’ last surviving heritage buildings, and will be an 100-cover outfit decorated in […]
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 […]
Flat Iron is to launch in King’s Cross. Butcher and founder Charlie Carroll is opening a 110-cover site on Caledonian Road later this month. The concept won’t be changing, with the underused feather blade still the centrepiece of the restaurant. However, Carroll is also introducing the under blade fillet, tri-tip, and rump cap to the […]
Rotunda Bar and Restaurant has relaunched after a “significant refurbishment and re-think”. The British restaurant, which has a superb situation overlooking the canal in King’s Cross, has reopened with a “fresh new look, new menus, and new drinks list”. New menu The newly formatted restaurant, with kitchen now on view, will be highlighting its ‘gate […]
Chef Pip Lacey, who was lovingly praised by Harden’s reporters for her “understatedly brilliant” food while head chef at Angela Hartnett’s Murano, will finally open her first restaurant. Hicce X Wolf & Badger is set to launch in October 2018 at King’s Cross development Coal Drops Yard. The restaurant will seat 80, with al fresco dining […]
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 […]
This week Londoners will get the chance to try the world’s first Michelin-starred street food as Singapore’s Hawker Chan pitches up at Kerb in Granary Square, King’s Cross. Celebrated street food purveyor Chan Hong Men will be serving his signature soya sauce chicken rice box from the north London site from Wednesday 14-Friday 16 March, midday-2 pm, […]
Granary Square Brasserie, a new restaurant brand from the team behind The Ivy Collection, opens today (Wednesday 6 December). Located in the heart of King’s Cross, on the former site of Bruno Loubet’s Grain Store (RIP), the restaurant sits on Granary Square with an al-fresco terrace overlooking Regent’s Canal. The 250-cover restaurant, open seven days […]
Bruno Loubet’s veggie-centric King’s Cross venture, Grain Store, will close its doors for good on 23 August. The warehouse-style space was one of the first restaurants to lead the regeneration of Granary Square when it opened four years ago. Once a rather barren landscape behind King’s Cross station, the locale has been transformed by the […]
It is oft remarked that we Brits love to queue, and when it comes to dining out in London sometimes that’s a necessity. According to recent research queues are governed by the rule of six – customers will only join a queue with less than six people and are only willing to wait six minutes. Restaurant-goers, […]
