The company behind the UK launch of famed Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung has confirmed it will open a restaurant in Covent Garden in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Eclectic all-day dining grab-and-go restaurant Farmer J is to launch a second site in the City of London following the success of its inaugural location on Leadenhall Street.
Restaurant magazine’s latest Restaurant Eats Out event included four very different restaurants and highlighted the eclecticism of Covent Garden’s booming eating out scene.
Michael O’Hare has left his The Rabbit in the Moon restaurant following a parting of ways with his Manchester-based backers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs.
Following two months of trading out of a tiny hatch in Soho, Pleasant Lady Jian Bing is opening a larger site in Old Spitalfields Market’s the Kitchens.
A brewery, bar and restaurant concept is launching in Hackney Central’s renovated arches next month, offering craft beers and traditional Cypriot small plates.
Dalston’s “only non-hipster café”, Arthur’s, has announced it will close after 70 years of service, because its founder and namesake decreed in his will that it must be sold on his death.
Casual world food restaurant brand Giraffe is trialling a ‘version 2.0’ format at its Bristol restaurant, testing out new menu items and a new style of service.
Traditional British restaurant Jones & Sons is expanding beyond Dalston after five years of operation, having secured a site in the Angel Central development in Islington.
Mediterranean-inspired brunch restaurant Brother Marcus will become a two-site operation this June, having secured a spacious site in London’s Angel for an all-day restaurant.
Restaurant group Mac & Wild has chosen a tourist attraction’s visitor centre once known as the ‘Harrods of the North’ to launch its first restaurant in Scotland.
Designer Tom Dixon is to partner with chef Assaf Granit, of The Palomar and The Barbary restaurants in London, to open a new restaurant on Granary Square in King’s Cross.
Covent Garden’s boutique Henrietta Hotel is replacing Ollie Dabbous’ Henrietta Hotel Restaurant with southwest France and Basque country-inspired Henrietta Bistro.
More details have been released about Heckfield Place, the ‘UK’s most delayed hotel’, in advance of the opening of the Georgian country house in September.
Restaurateur Sam Harrison - who owned Sam’s Brasserie in Chiswick and Harrison’s in Balham, until both sites closed in 2015 - is making a return to the restaurant fold early next year.
