A new wine bar specialising in pasta cooked by a former River Café chef opens in Battersea today. Archway occupies a railway arch opposite the entrance to Battersea Park and close to the new Battersea Power Station development. The two women behind Archway are Emily Few Brown, who launched the catering company Spook almost ten […]
A new neighbourhood haunt is to open in the heart of the Portobello Market, taking over the very characterful premises which for years have traded as amiable 1980s dive Portobello Gold: an ex-Hell’s Angel’s hang-out, whose past customers have included then-serving-president, Bill Clinton. Gold will be a modern European neighbourhood bar and restaurant in the […]
An upcoming restaurant combining – quite oddly, some might say – Japanese and Italian cuisine in Dalston will enforce a ‘no-phone’ rule at the bar. Angelina is set to open in February 2019 and will aim to celebrate the best of Italian regional cookery and seasonality, and Japanese flavours and techniques. (We’re only aware of […]
Chef Theo Randall is to lend his name to a restaurant brand called Theo’s Italian Kitchen. Theo’s Italian Kitchen is a new venture from IHG, owners of the InterContinental Park Lane, where Randall operates his fine dining restaurant, Theo Randall. The ex-River Café head chef will front the opening of two sites in Battersea and Aldgate, […]
⦿ The Guardian’s Marina O’Loughlin reviewed Trump Turnberry 6/10 in Ayrshire, where she arrived with “prejudices fully erect” and is told in a whisper, “We’re not allowed to talk politics.” “Yes, there’s a lot to loathe. I hate that the hotel celebrates Scottishness in a way only a tourist can love: charming doormen waft you indoors […]
Tickets are now on sale for what will no doubt be the foodie-hipster event of the year. Auction Against Hunger, a fundraising evening benefitting Action Against Hunger, will be held on 21 May in collaboration with Dalston’s Street Feast and boasts a starry line-up of guest chefs. The event kicks off at 6.30pm in Dalston […]
St Paul’s Road in Islington is becoming quite the hub of restaurant activity. First Trullo (founded by River Café alumnus Jordan Frieda) moved in, then LECOQ (from Salt Yard Group founder Sanja Morris and her sister Anna) set up camp beside it, and soon a new artisan café, Sawyer & Gray, will open next door. Details […]
