Markus Thesleff is on a roll. “We’ve opened three restaurants in three months,” he says. “London’s smallest, London’s biggest and London’s oldest” – respectively Juno, the six-seater omakase upstairs from Los Mochis in Notting Hill; Los Mochis City, a vast new operation accommodating 200, with a rooftop terrace above Broadgate Circle; and Sale e Pepe, […]
‘Mostly vegan’ chef Rishim Sachdeva is to open a new café at Somerset House on the Strand next month, following his launch last year of restaurant Tendril in Mayfair. His new ‘plant-first’ all-day venture, Café Petiole – named after the thin stalk connecting a leaf to a stem – will feature pastries and desserts from Tendril’s head […]
High-flying Birmingham chef Brad Carter will open his first London restaurant this summer – in the basement of a historic church, St George’s in Hanover Square, Mayfair. Called Undercroft, the ambitious restaurant will showcase forgotten dishes such as wild garlic chicken toast, sea tripe and seaweed soup, Tamworth pork with creamed snails, and duck with offal […]
José Pizarro is to open his third restaurant in Bermondsey Street this summer. Called Lolo, his sixth London venue will be an all-day operation and his first to serve breakfast. The launch comes as the influential chef – who was recently awarded a Spanish knighthood – celebrates 25 years in London. With its close proximity to his […]
A trio of friends with impressive track records have opened a new wine bar and restaurant called Wilson’s in Ladywell High Street, southeast London. Wilson’s is next door to crowd-funded sustainable food store Plenty and opposite coffee shop Oscar’s, which are both owned by husband and wife Alina and Joel Falconer. Joel is a former […]
The new vegan restaurant from Great British Menu 2024 winner Kirk Haworth, Plates in Shoreditch, has already proved a smash hit – months ahead of its July launch. When advance bookings opened this week, its computer crashed under the weight of 70,000 applicants. Kirk trained initially with his father, Nigel Haworth, former chef-patron of Northcote in […]
The Emory, a new luxury hotel overlooking Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, opens next week, with a signature restaurant from New York celeb chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Billed as London’s first all-suite hotel, the nine-storey Emory was designed by the late architect Richard Rogers and is clad in his trademark glass panels. It is the fourth London […]
An ambitious restaurant devoted to risotto is to open in Fitzrovia this spring. All’Onda, meaning ‘on the wave’, is from first-time restaurateur Cordula Schulz, who has recruited chef Andrea Granzarolo and general manager Marco Montalbano (respectively from Hélène Darroze and Muse by Tom Aikens) for the project. Hailing from Lombardy, the birthplace of risotto, Andrea […]
UBA, a vibey new Pan Asian restaurant taking most of its food cues from Japan, opens at the Hart Shoreditch hotel in Great Eastern Street on Tuesday next week. Globetrotting chef Paul Greening (ex-Aqua Kyoto and Novikov) is said to be inspired by his travels to Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore. The restaurant’s interior […]
Chef Jackson Boxer is to open a new French bistro called Henri in Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel this spring. The new venture is a collaboration with the Paris-based Experimental Group, with whom he opened a highly rated restaurant at Cowley Manor in the Cotswolds last year. He also runs Brunswick House and Orasay in London. […]
