Dishoom is to open two new branches of its Permit Room all-day café-bars in the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge this year, following the sub-brand’s launch in Brighton last year. Cambridge opens first, on 20 June, with Oxford celebrating the new academic year in October. The brand is named after the alcohol permits issued […]
Chef Robin Read has opened his debut restaurant as owner in his home town of Tunbridge Wells, more 30 years after a work experience placement with the Roux Brothers initiated his career. The Counter occupies a three-storey Georgian building, and follows a successful pop-up hosted by Daily Bread in the nearby village of Rusthall, which […]
Former Jamie Oliver Group boss Ryan Jacovides (left in picture) and chef Tony Rodd (right) have linked up to open a new restaurant, bar and bottle shop in Margate. Pomus opens next Thursday, 16 May, in the coastal town’s The Centre shopping precinct. The pair have both made the move to the Kent coast after […]
Footballer-turned-entrepreneur Gary Neville (left in picture) has signed chef Niall Keating (right) to open a new restaurant at the Stock Exchange boutique hotel in Manchester that he co-owns with Ryan Giggs. Called Tender, it will be the third attempt to occupy the impressively domed dining room since the hotel launched in 2019. Its predecessor, the […]
A glossy Chinese restaurant which justifies dressing up for dinner opens in Glasgow city centre next week. Paul Sloan of the Hunky Dory Group hopes Zhima will “bring to Glasgow what Hakkasan does to London and Tattu does to Edinburgh – an elegant, adventurous dining destination“. The million-pound pound project has been in development for four […]
A hotshot chef from the US West Coast has closed down his Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant and transferred it to Edinburgh after falling in love with the Scottish capital on a family holiday. Rodney Wages has opened in Avery Edinburgh in St Stephens Street, taking over the basement site of former restaurant The Stockbridge, which […]
Prolific young Edinburgh chef Tomás Gormley will next week unveil his ambitious restaurant Cardinal, an “intimate” spot on the edge of the city’s New Town serving a 13-course tasting menu. It is the third new restaurant from Tomás in four years, following Heron in Leith and Skua in Stockbridge. But these two were in partnership […]
A new restaurant and wine bar combining Japanese-influenced food with natural wines opens today (Wednesday 21 February) in a townhouse on the Deal seafront in Kent – with yoga and treatments also available upstairs. The Blue Pelican is the latest venture from Chris Hicks and Alex Bagner, husband-and-wife team behind The Rose boutique hotel and restaurant […]
A South African-inspired restaurant serving ambitious cuisine at accessible prices has opened in the south Birmingham suburb of Stirchley. Riverine Rabbit, set in a low-key shopping parade on Pershore Road, is named after an endangered species that lives in South Africa’s Karoo Desert – signifying chef Ash Valenzuela-Heeger’s commitment to supporting sustainable farming practices. Ash trained […]
Peter Sanchez-Iglesias is planning to bring celebrated Bristol restaurant Casamia back to life – 18 months after closing it down permanently as ‘financially unviable’. Posting on Instagram, he announced: “Casamia will reopen again. Unfinished business.” The restaurant was originally launched in 1997 by Peter’s parents as a relatively modest suburban trattoria, before being transformed by […]
