The expansion of Porky’s BBQ is fairly picking up speed. An outpost of the barbecue joint – specialising in American-style smoked meats – arrived on the South Bank’s Globe Walk in June and now another restaurant has opened at Boxpark, Shoreditch. Meat-loving hipsters can sample authentic slow-cooked American barbecue, including Memphis meaty ribs and tips (pork ribs […]
Ex-Caprice group supremo Des McDonald has announced his long-awaited sequel to Islington’s popular Fish and Chip Shop. The eat-in and takeaway restaurant’s second site will open on 15 October in Dashwood House, Old Broad Street, in the City. For those who want a sneak peak there will be a 50 per cent off food soft launch […]
In what is turning into a real life game of Monopoly, one where your starting capital needs to be oligarch billions rather than £200 for passing Go, Mayfair’s desirable restaurant sites are being snapped up by Russia’s elite. The string of Russian-backed restaurants now inhabiting the priciest heart of W1 include Novikov, Goodman, Rextail, Burger/Lobster and, most […]
Burger joint Haché will launch its fifth London site this Christmas, with a 70-cover operation in Balham. The small group – which outstrips its larger rivals for quality, according to our annual survey – already has sites in Camden (pictured), Chelsea, Clapham and Shoreditch. Haché’s latest restaurant will occupy the former home of Meze Kitchen and will […]
Gordon Ramsay will launch his first ‘heart-of-the-West-End’ operation, Heddon Street Kitchen, on 10 November. Modelled on City outpost Bread Street Kitchen – not, it must be said, much favoured by Harden’s reporters – it will be located on the former site of a Living Room bar and restaurant, just off Regent Street. Heddon Street, the Gordon […]
Serendipitously coinciding with Oktoberfest, the latest Herman ze German outpost opens in Fitzrovia’s Charlotte Street next week. This is the chain’s third London site. The original opened just off the Strand in 2010, followed by a second shop in Soho, in 2013. Herman ze German serves up traditional sausages, but offers gluten and lactose-free Bratwurst, Chilli […]
Gaucho certainly seems to be having a hand in shaping the restaurateurs of the future. Last week we reported that the steak chain’s former chief exec, Martin Williams, would launch the first of his M Restaurants in the City on 12 November, and now ex Gaucho finance director, Charlie McClean is set to open an […]
A new ‘creative hub’ from the B&H Group (the people behind Reverend JW Simpson, Blitz Party and Prohibition and the Bourne & Hollingsworth Bar) has launched in Clerkenwell. The Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings, taking over the corner of Northampton Road just off Exmouth Market, features a 70-cover restaurant and greenhouse, a café, private rooms and bar. The all-in-one […]
Another pop-up restaurant has gone permanent. Peruvian BBQ and street food concept Señor Ceviche has found its first full-time home in Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street. It will join Whyte & Brown, Wright Bros, Pizza Pilgrims and many more in this now quite decent restaurant hub, which sandwiched between the rush of Regent Street’s shop and […]
It’s been in the offing for well over two years and this week London’s outpost of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. will finally open. This restaurant, based on a fictional shrimp company from the movie Forest Gump, will launch on 1 October at the Trocadero, alongside Leicester Square’s other touristic gems like the Angus Steakhouse, […]
