Bar Kroketa, the tapas bar from the team behind Spanish import specialists Brindisa, has taken over José Pizarro’s former site in Broadgate Circus near Liverpool Street station, which it will open as its third and biggest branch next month. Chef/restaurateur José Pizarro announced the closure of his only venue in the City last December, after […]
Tasca, a year-long Iberian-inspired residency from sommelier Sinead Murdoch and chef Josh Dallaway, has opened at new wine bar Cav in Bethnal Green. The couple, who met working together at Sarap Bistro, see the venture as a “love letter” to their travels in Spain, Portugal and the South of France, where they explored the dining […]
Brindisa Tapas bars have just celebrated their 25th anniversary. Harden’s caught up with founder Monika Linton HARDEN’S: Monika, many congratulations on the first quarter century of Brindisa Tapas – but the bars are just the tip of the iceberg, the most visible aspect of the import company you set up in 1988 to import Spanish food. […]
A Spanish-inspired neighbourhood restaurant called Amari opens next week in Brighton, from the team behind Mexican spot Halisco. Chef Ian Swainson, previously of Amarillo in the city, will head the kitchen, with his partner Justyna Maria Ciurus, formerly of the Little Fish Market in Hove, running the front of house. They are backed by brothers […]
The three brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca in Girona are to open a restaurant at The Macallan whisky distillery in Scotland this summer. In what is said to be their first venture outside Spain, the brothers will sprinkle their Catalan magic over the local Scottish larder. TimeSpirit, which opens in August at Craigellachie […]
Disfrutar in Barcelona has secured the number one crown at the 2024 World’s 50 Best Restaurants shindig in Las Vegas, on a list dominated by restaurants from the Spanish-speaking world. Runner-up was Basque restaurant Asador Etxebarri, with Diverxo in Madrid placed fourth and restaurants from Lima (Maido), Mexico City (Quintonil) and Buenos Aires (Don Julio) […]
The chef duo behind popular Finsbury Park food pub The Plimsoll will next month open an ‘Iberian fish bar’, Tollington’s, in a former chippy nearby. Ed McIlroy and Jamie Allan, who first made their mark as Four Legs at the Compton Arms, are retaining the tiling, formica floors and fish fryers at the venue, which […]
A Cardiff hospitality couple have launched two Spanish-influenced restaurants simultaneously and side-by-side at the Lakeside development by Roath Park, on the north side of the city. Bodega is a wine-bar and restaurant serving small and sharing plates of food cooked with fire and smoke, while Ballers is a pizzeria serving Neapolitan-style sourdough pizzas with a […]
Leading Birmingham chef Glynn Purnell has opened a tapas bar a street away from his flagship, Purnell’s, in the city’s business district. Plates by Purnell’s occupies the former site of Spanish restaurant Pinchos on Edmund Street. Last year Glynn, aka ‘the Yummy Brummie’, opened The Mount pub in Henley-on-Arden, his first venture outside the Birmingham, […]
Another outpost of the well-known Brindisa chain is opening in London. The Spanish food importer and restaurant chain is launching a tapas venue at Battersea Power Station in autumn. There will be a dedicated cheese bar (some of which will be aged in-house) and charcuterie bar, and customers can eat in or take away. The hot […]
