Prawn on the Lawn in Islington is to launch a 30-cover cocktail and oyster bar called Sawyer & Gray Lates. The seafood restaurant, which has a sister site in Padstow, Cornwall, will transform its day-time cafe, which sits next to its dining room proper, into a candlelit affair from 6pm Thursday to Saturday. The additional […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer doesn’t so much review Marylebone newcomer Fancy Crab as eviscerate it… “Fancy Crab isn’t good. It’s a terrible waste of their money and our money and everybody’s time. “The restaurant’s shtick is the enormous red king crabs, fished from the cold waters of the North Pacific around Alaska, which can […]
The people behind Zoilo and Casa Malevo have launched what they call ‘London’s first Argentine butcher and wine merchant’. Abasto, nestled in the cosy area estate agents call Connaught Village, also includes a dining room for 16 people and an events space for masterclasses. Abasto follows several other recent restaurant openings which have a decidedly multi-purpose feel. There’s […]