Bakery chain Greggs is making its first foray into ‘fine dining’ with a Parisian-inspired Christmas pop-up co-hosted by department store Fenwick in Newcastle, the city where both are based. Bistro Greggs, which opens today, is serving staples such as the chain’s famous sausage rolls paired with fancier sides such as truffled dauphinoise potatoes, chicory and […]
A dish of cricket mince with hummus and crudités (pictured) by Sam Clark of Moro will feature on the menu at a pop-up – should that be hop-up? – restaurant that opens at Old Street this month. Yum Bug, the company behind the project, has won backing from James Watt of BrewDog and Holly Branson of […]
Amsterdam-based vegan ramen outfit Ramen Impossible makes its UK debut today, 16 June, in a summer-long pop-up at Mercato Metropolitano in London’s Elephant & Castle. Ramen is famously made with a meat-based broth, but Ramen Impossible’s founder, Japanese chef Atsushi Ishida, has developed an alternative using miso, cashew nuts and nutritional yeast. The brand only […]
Three very different teams have come together to launch a summer-long Thai restaurant and arts space in London’s West End with the aim of establishing a template for “green social clubs” in cities across Britain. Outcrop, which opens in the Strand next month, combines the talents of individuals involved in Secret Cinema, high-end restaurants Clove […]
Amy Poon’s Wontoneria opens on 7 February for a three-month residency at 23 Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia, the ‘incubator space’ run by revolving-chef restaurant Carousel, in a step towards reviving the family’s famous Poon’s restaurant at a permanent site. Her father Bill Poon, a seventh-generation Cantonese master chef, opened his first restaurant in London’s Chinatown […]
Soho’s venerable L’Escargot, reputedly London’s oldest French restaurant, is to reopen its Suffolk summer pop-up as a permanent seaside outpost called L’Escargot sur Mer in Aldeburgh. Currently being renovated for the launch, L’Escargot sur Mer at 152 Aldeburgh High Street will have 60 covers, a wine bar, six bedrooms and a rooftop terrace with sea […]
Highly rated chef Scott Hallsworth is to launch a pop-up restaurant in a former Clerkenwell pizzeria this month, where he will give his Japanese-inspired plates a new twist by cooking in a wood-fired pizza oven. Double Dragon, in a Victorian bank building on Rosebery Avenue, opens on February 16. The Aussie-born chef headed kitchens at […]
This weekend (31 March) Tom Sellers closes his “modernist culinary temple” Restaurant Story ahead of an extensive month- long interior renovation, the first since its launch in 2013. Re-opening on 8 May, the redesign will not only transform the look and feel of the restaurant, but will coincide with a new menu concept and a […]
This storming little Pan-Asian pop-up from Scott Hallsworth (founder of Kurobuta) and Phar Shaweewan finds a permanent home in Soho’s Frith Street, in what was once the original Barrafina premises. Freak Scene fuses Japanese, Singaporean and Malay cooking, as well as adding some South American inspiration in the form of Miso-grilled black cod tacos with […]
Londoners who haven’t had the opportunity to sample Edinburgh’s Norn yet will be pleased to hear the restaurant is coming to you – with a residency at Marylebone’s Carousel from 13-24 March. If you’re not familiar with Scott Smith’s Leith dining room then allow us to acquaint you. On the former site of the Plumed […]
