10 May 2012
Charlie McVeigh’s Draft House has finally crossed the river, securing a fifth site on the smoking hot corner of Charlotte Street & Goodge Street. The former Northumberland Arms, at 43 Goodge Street W1, has been watering Fitzrovians since the early 1800s.
The Draft House will open in July and aims to continue that tradition, dispensing the very finest cask and keg beers, accompanied by established Draft House classics such as foot-long scratchings and hamburger specials The Yolk, The Smoke and The Poke.
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12 Apr 2012
Husband and wife team James Knappett and Sandia Chang are to open Bubbledogs this July at 70 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia. Knappett (The Ledbury; The Berkeley; Noma; Per Se) will be Head Chef while Chang (Roganic; TheBerkeley; Noma; Per Se) will be General Manager.
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12 Mar 2012
This spring sees a welcome new addition to the South Kensington restaurant scene as exciting Asian eatery Umami opens its doors on 14 March.
Ideally located on Cromwell Road, Umami will offer a creative and authentic menu of both small and sharing plates, with influences from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Korea.
Served in two sizes, to taste or to share, tapas-style dishes will include perennial favourites such as chicken satay and Thai fish cakes alongside signature creations like sweet basil, garlic and peppercorn tossed squid.
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22 Feb 2012
Andrew Dargue and Donna Conroy, the partners behind Michelin recommended vegetarian restaurant Vanilla Black, have opened Orchard, a British vegetarian eatery.
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03 Feb 2012
Peruvian food and drink has a long and distinguished history and for many has come to be considered one of the finest and fastest growing international gastronomic movements today. In Spring 2012 chef Virgilio Martinez and the Gonzalez brothers, will open LIMA in Fitzrovia, London, a new restaurant integrating traditional and contemporary Peruvian cuisine.
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29 Jan 2012
A collaboration between celebrated chef and food writer Mark Hix and the Thompson Hotel Group, sees the opening of Hix Belgravia and the second of Hix's award-winning Mark's Bar opening on 1st February.
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23 Jan 2012
Located in the heart of London's West End on Whitfield Street, Dabbous is the first solo venture for Ollie Dabbous, laterly of Michelin-starred Texture and one of a handful of young chefs Restaurant magazine recently hailed as shaping the UK culinary scene, and award-winning mixologist Oskar Kinberg, formerly bar manager of the Cuckoo Club.
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14 Jan 2012
One of Belgium's oldest and best loved restaurants, Chez Leon, famed for its exceptional moules frites and hearty Flemish classics, has chosen London for the setting of their first international branch of its Leon de Bruxelles franchise, opening on 17th January. They're going for a 'soft' opening between 17th and 20th January, when all food will have 50% off.
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