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Stevie Parle’s tenure at JOY at Portobello may yet prove short-lived. The fate of his residency at Porobello Dock remains unknown. Still, he is doing all he can to stay. On April 12, Parle will reopen the site, which sells food, drink, groceries, and flowers, and will be launching a new seafood-focused menu. An announcement […]
Stevie Parle will return to Portobello Dock with the launch of a new pop-up restaurant, FLORA. FLORA comes as part of JOY, a new bar, honey shop, and wine and beer shop, with an emphasis on working with ‘farm to fork’ grocers and local seasonal ingredients. Parle’s original Dock Kitchen site on Portobello Docks has […]
An eagle-eyed hospitality analyst spotted something exciting on the window of a site on in Marylebone on Wednesday. Mark Wingett from insights group Propel saw a notice of application for a premises licence on James Street. The document says Stephen (Stevie) Parle applied to Westminster Council on May 24 to open… something. Harden’s asked the […]
Stevie Parle has confirmed his southern Italian restaurant, Rotorino, is to close. The chef said he is going to “focus on other projects”. The exact closing date is currently unknown, though the restaurant is taking bookings until April 9. The move follows the closure of The Dock Kitchen, Parle’s first restaurant. Parle said: “I’ve been running […]
Soho institution Quo Vadis has announced the latest lineup for its ‘& Friends: 2019’ series. Approaching its third year, chef patron Jeremy Lee has invited another round of fellow chefs, representing their respective restaurants, to cook with him. The last 12 months saw the likes of Tommy Banks of the Black Swan, Tom Brown of […]
Stevie Parle is soon to open a second Pastaio in Canary Wharf. The new restaurant will launch on November 26 in a space formerly occupied by Pocho. The second Pastaio will serve much the same as the Soho site, with plenty of deep-fried ‘nduja and mozzarella, pasta plates and Italian sausage. Whether the queues will […]
⦿ Jay Rayner of The Observer reviewed London Shell Co, a floating restaurant aboard a 30-year-old barge which is moored at Paddington over lunch and voyages along the Regent Canal while serving dinner in the evening. “It began as a pop-up on dry land, led by actor-turned-sommelier Harry Lobek and his sister Leah. In the small, diesel-powered […]
⦿ Jay Rayner of The Observer reviewed The Other Naughty Piglet, a branch of Brixton’s Naughty Piglets inside Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new theatre in Victoria, The Other Place, where he found “a kind of modern British cooking with wallops of umami”. “Sometimes the cleverness is textural. A pile of white crab meat sits atop a heap of […]
⦿ In the Observer, Jay Rayner reviewed Barbecoa, the new Piccadilly flagship from Jamie Oliver (pictured, left, with Raymond Blanc), a grand and expensive “meat and smoke extravaganza“. “It feels like a big New York brasserie crossed with a branch of Hawksmoor. The real action is downstairs in a basement space which laughs in the […]
⦿ The Observer’s Jay Rayner reviewed Chop Chop in Edinburgh, which confirmed his view that dumplings are the ultimate comfort food – “While you are eating dumplings nothing bad can happen.” Opened in 2006 by Jian Wang, from Dongbei in northeast China, Chop Chop excels in its dumplings, although its other dishes were more variable […]
