A couple who met in the kitchen at St John are opening their first restaurant, Sparrow, in Lewisham at the end of March. Terry Blake and Yohini Nandakumar say they will use seasonal British meat and vegetables and cook their favourite dishes – which gives them a pretty broad canvas. Between them they have notched up experience at Bao, […]
The Araki, a nine-seater Japanese counter in Mayfair that at over £350 a head is Britain’s most expensive restaurant, has been crowned London’s Top Gastronomic Experience at the first ever Harden’s London Restaurant Awards, justifying sushi master Mitsuhiro Araki’s gamble in closing down his Michelin three-star operation in Tokyo to move around the world. He shared the […]
The Sethi siblings – the team behind Gymkhana and Trishna – have turned their restaurant Midas touch to street food with their latest venture inspired by the road shacks of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Hoppers launched in Soho’s Frith Street on 28 October, on the former site of Koya, which closed at the end of […]
