Jeremy Clarkson has opened a restaurant at his Diddly Squat farm in the Cotswolds, having located a “cunning little loophole” to circumvent the local council’s refusal to grant him planning permission. Almost all the restaurant’s 40 seats are outdoors, the toilets are a long walk (or tractor/quad-bike ride) away, there are no vegetarian options and […]
Forza Win, the former pop-up serving simple but delicious Italian meals in a Peckham warehouse which closed down after a row with the landlord two years ago, is to reopen in September. It will take over the vacant site in Camberwell Church Street formerly home to Angels and Gypsies. The same group operates Forza Wine, […]
Chef Dean Banks has opened a new casual seafood bar and restaurant in Edinburgh, which he will run alongside the august Pompadour (pictured above) at the city’s Waldorf Astoria hotel and Haar in St Andrew’s. Dulse is in the Queensferry Street premises occupied for 18 years by Fred Birkmiller’s L’Escargot Blanc, which did not reopen […]
A new pub/restaurant with a high-end chef behind the stoves is launching in Islington. The Baring, close to the Regent’s Canal in Baring Street premises formerly known as The Poet, opens its doors on Tuesday. Sustainability is a major theme for both food and drink, with wines from low-intervention independent makers and a rotating choice […]
As the cost of living crisis begins to bite, a new restaurant is opening in Mayfair which boasts a dish costing £3,000 a pop – and a cocktail listed at a staggering £50,000. Miro launches next Friday in Old Burlington Street on the site of Street XO, and comes from the Cream Group owned by nightclub […]
Israeli chef Eyal Shani is bringing his international pita brand Miznon to London with the launch of his new restaurant in Soho next week, adding to the capital’s booming Middle Eastern dining scene. He opened the original Miznon in Tel Aviv in 2011, and has followed up with branches in Paris, Vienna, New York, Melbourne, […]
Irish-born chef Robin Gill is to open a tiny Parisian-style wine bar in Brixton Market Row this month. Bottle & Rye will have just 28 covers and focus on minimal-intervention wines from across Europe, back up by a menu from ex-Lino chef Ben Hughes-Green. “We love how these little gems are embraced by the city,” […]
London’s growing ranks of upscale African restaurants will be swelled this month with the launch of Isibani, under Nigerian-born chef Victor Okunowo (pictured), at the very plushest of addresses on Knightsbridge Green. Meaning “bring the light” in Zulu, Isibani’s founders describe it as “a love letter to West African cuisine” and a celebration of their […]
Chef Thomas Straker, a social-media star who built a following of 400,000 during the pandemic, opens his first restaurant this month in London’s Notting Hill. He says Straker’s, in Golborne Road, will be an “epic neighbourhood restaurant with east London wine-bar vibes”. Thomas, who has worked at Phil Howard’s Elystan Street and Dinner by Heston […]
John and Kimberly Calton of Newcastle bistro Route have announced plans to open an ambitious restaurant in the shadow of Sunderland football club’s Stadium of Light. Named Zinc, the restaurant will occupy a prime location of the now-derelict Grade II listed Stable Yards (pictured), overlooking the River Wear. The couple ran the successful Staith House […]
