A clutch of London’s most successful restaurant chains are heading up the M40 to open new outlets in Oxford’s Westgate shopping and leisure complex, which reopens after a £440million redevelopment later this year. Polpo (pictured), Russell Norman’s tribute to the Venetian small-plates bacaro, heads the list alongside Sticks & Sushi, Pho, Shoryu ramen, Comptoir Libanais, Pizza […]
Billed as the world’s most expensive pho, two bowls of the Vietnamese national dish could be yours if you’re prepared to pay more than £1,000 for the privilege. The “super pho” concocted by Shaftesbury Avenue restaurant Pho and Bun using Kobe beef is being auctioned to raise funds for Action on Hunger. Owner Andy Le […]
Of all the cheap n cheerful grub in London, Vietnamese is among the best. In Shoreditch – where the High Street meets Kingsland Road – there is almost a mile of warming and inexpensive (thanks BYO!) pho restaurants. And although E2 remains the spiritual home of ‘Little Vietnam’, the cuisine has been successfully exported to […]
This summer Red’s True Barbecue bucked the trend of southern restaurants heading to Manchester (Hawksmoor, Iberica, Burger & Lobster etc) by bringing a northern-only operation to the big smoke. Now this chain of US-inspired, dude food emporia has announced the acquisition of another new site, opening in Liverpool in November. The building, on Hanover Street, a former […]
After six years trading in Bermondsey, family-run Vietnamese spot Caphe House is moving to a new, larger premises in Farringdon. It’s even got itself a new name – now going by Caphe Pho the restaurant will on on 26 May in Smithfield Street. Over the years the owners say they have sold more than 130,000 […]
Wahaca, Pho and Vapiano have all snapped up sites in Manchester’s Corn Exchange, which will reopen following a £30m refurb in June next year. Thomasina Miers’s chain of vibrant Mexican operations (pictured) has been confirmed as one of the development’s flagship tenants alongside restaurants opening their first Mancunian outposts. Continental-style food court Vapiano, which already has […]
You’ve read our picks for the best Vietnamese restaurants in London, now here’s your chance to try one first hand. Harden’s has teamed up with Pho to offer you the chance to win dinner for two and a bottle of wine at their new restaurant in St Paul’s One New Change Centre. Enjoy moreish Vietnamese […]
Vietnamese restaurant group Pho is growing apace with the addition of another site in the City, this time in the One New Change shopping centre near St Paul’s, also home to Jamie’s Barbecoa and Gordo’s Bread Street Kitchen. Opening on the former site of a Caffe Concerto, it will be the company’s twelfth premises and […]
