A 16-seat restaurant serving a ten-course meal at a single evening sitting will open this autumn in Shoreditch’s Blue Mountain School. Chef Theo Clench (right in photo), formerly of Akoko and Portland, will head the kitchen at Cycene, cooking a seasonal menu influenced by Australasia with an emphasis on seafood. Among the signature dishes he […]
Famously itchy-footed experimental chef Nuno Mendes returns to his Portuguese roots with his new restaurant in the Fitzrovia foodie enclave of Charlotte Street, which opens on Monday. He says Lisboeta will be “a love letter to Lisbon”, his home city. One of the most eagerly anticipated – not to say hyped – openings in London this year, […]
Mãos, the acclaimed experimental restaurant in Shoreditch, is to close “in its current form” at the end of April – an announcement that possibly leaves the door ajar for a next step. Part of design and fashion entrepreneur James Brown’s Blue Mountain venture in Redchurch Street, Mãos opened four years ago under Portuguese chef Nuno Mendes […]
Nuno Mendes has departed the Michelin-starred restaurant Mãos. Neither he nor Blue Mountain School entrepreneur James Brown have given a reason for the move. Mendes, one of London’s most famous chefs, opened the restaurant on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch in 2018. The chef joined having made waves at Chiltern Firehouse and immediately struck a chord […]
Hotel group Standard International has announced the launch of its first site outside of the US. The Standard, which will open in King’s Cross in July, will first feature a restaurant led by executive chef Adam Rawson, and a standalone bar with cocktails, craft beers and New York-style snacks. The all-day restaurant, Isla, will offer […]
Borough Wines & Beers has announced that Zijun Meng and Ana Goncalves – the ex-Viajante chefs behind TĀ TĀ EATERY – takes over the kitchens in its Kensal Rise (NW10) shop from today (10 May) for a three-month residency, as part of its ongoing Chef Development Series. The husband and wife team met under chef […]
London’s favourite Portuguese chef Nuno Mendes (Taberna do Mercado and once upon a time Viajante) has been talking about launching a fine dining supper club for some time (a revival of his Loft Project of sorts). Now it seems the dream has finally come to fruition with the arrival of a 14-seater, tasting menu-only dining […]
Chef Nuno Mendes has teamed up with Barworks to launch a new neighbourhood venue in Hackney’s Keltan House, incorporating a bar, restaurant, deli and café. Mare Street Market opens this winter (date still TBA). Nuno, of course, made his name at Bethnal Green’s Viajante (RIP) and has gone on to head up Chiltern Firehouse in […]
Cartel, a new taqueria and late-night tequila bar in Battersea, is the latest in the new wave of Mexican taco joints that is sweeping across London. Named in what seems a clear reference to the Mexican narco wars involving drug cartels that have cost 100,000 lives in the past 10 years, the venue must also be an early front-runner in the “poor taste […]
On Thursday 26 May Auction Against Hunger will return for the fourth year in a row to raise money for the restaurant industry’s charity of choice, Action Against Hunger. This time around the event will be held at the new Street Feast venue Hawker House in Canada Water where top chefs will cook up street food style […]
