It may never have lived up to its cathedral-like setting under the railway arches but Vinopolis has been a Borough Market institution since 1999, so news of its impending closure is certainly sad. The wine tour and tasting venue, along with its restaurant Cantina Vinopolis (where food was always rather secondary to wine buffery), will […]
One of the capital’s most revered Italian restaurants, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in April, will close at the end of December with hopes of relocating. Enoteca Turi, a fixture in Harden’s London guide since 1995, has been serving up “beautifully cooked regional cuisine” plus a wine list “about the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica” […]
‘Supplier-to-table’ seafood venture in the heart of Soho, Rex & Mariano, which closed after less than a year, has been replaced by another meat-focused venture from the Goodman group. Zelman Meats – courtesy of the company that brought us Goodman steak houses and Burger & Lobster – took over the St Anne’s Court site today (3 November). Surprisingly […]
Steve Love’s Birmingham canal-side venture into fine dining is to close on 31 May after six years. Though Loves has always been “difficult to find” it was considered well worth the extra effort by our reporters for “first-class” cuisine that’s “inventive without being faddish”. The “outstanding” list of drinks “from UK-centric bubbles to local liqueurs” was […]
Marlow’s once-celebrated Compleat Angler hotel is to launch a new restaurant. And it’s Indian. The chef is Atul Kochhar, of Mayfair’s Benares – one of the Indian chefs credited with elevating the food of the subcontinent to true fine dining status. He will take over the former Riverside restaurant which until last year traded as Aubergine. Aubergine’s less formal […]