France’s Big Mamma group opens its latest cartoon-Italian extravaganza in London today – Edmondo, a 200-cover Milan-inspired osteria close to Bank station in the Square Mile. Billed as ‘Piazza Duomo meets the City’, Edmondo’s lavish interior is modelled on the Villa Necchi Campiglio, a 1935 villa built for a family of industrialists in central Milan […]
Record number of restaurant openings in 2026 confirms London boom but rising closures leave sustainability uncertain, according to latest industry data The capital is officially in the grip of a restaurant boom, with a record number of new openings tracked over the past 12 months, according to figures featured in the new edition of Harden’s London […]
Beef tartare on a flattened croissant and a Vimto dessert are among the attention-grabbing dishes at Counter, the theatrical new venue from chef-restaurateur Andrew Sheridan which opens on Monday (9 November) in Manchester city centre . Billed on its website as ‘unapologetically and consciously creative’, Counter mixes and matches ingredients and techniques from around the […]
Claude Bosi is leaving Brooklands restaurant at The Peninsula hotel in January and returning to Michelin House in Chelsea, where his flagship venue Bibendum closed suddenly in August last year. The Lyons-born chef has yet to announce full details of the move, issuing a brief statement via Instagram to say: “I am incredibly proud of […]
Martin Kuczmarski has opened a new American/Italian-inspired venue called Chelsea Counter just a couple of minutes’ walk from Martino’s, the hit restaurant he launched opposite Sloane Square station a year ago. The move mirrors his modus operandi in Mayfair, where Martin opened the Dover in Dover Street and followed up with Dover Street Counter a […]
Chef-patron Luke French of restaurant Joro in Sheffield has drawn on his personal experience of supported housing to highlight the work of StreetSmart, which launches its annual hospitality fundraising drive on Sunday. Participating restaurants add a £1 voluntary donation per table to guests’ bills until the end of the year, in a campaign that has […]
Fable restaurant at the Crazy Bear hotel in Beaconsfield has closed down just a week after opening as the hotel entered administration this week for the second time in two years. The business, which includes a sibling hotel in Stadhampton, was swiftly snapped up by the Brakspear pub group, which is expected to reopen the […]
Celebrated chef Florence Knight’s hotly anticipated restaurant Lunette opens next week at St Clement, Nick Jones’s spanking new luxury hotel overlooking the River Thames at Temple. The 11th-floor venue is the hotel’s statement restaurant, and follows almost five months after the launch of the less gastronomically ambitious Café Clement on the ground floor. Florence made […]
Self-taught chef Mike Bartley has finally opened his long-planned tasting-menu restaurant Jörd in his home town of Bishop Auckland, having secured a £150,000 grant through a government-funded scheme to bring derelict property back into use. Mike (in photograph with Councillor Karen Allison) has taken over a building previously empty for more than two years – one […]
Former Kiln head chef Karla Knowles is opening two Thai restaurants in quick succession, starting next week with Pam, by Smithfield Market in Charterhouse Street. Her first standalone restaurant, Pam is pitched as a “playful and creative” take on Thai cuisine, making use of seasonal British produce in a venue that will also host art […]