All news articles for July 2019

Time Out Market

The Lowdown: food markets

By Stefan Chomka

The opening of Arcade Food Theatre in London’s Centre Point is the latest development in the runaway train that is the food market movement

Latest opening Circolo Popolare

Latest opening: Circolo Popolare

By James McAllister

France's Big Mamma group is back, mere months after arriving in London, with its second restaurant opening in the capital, this time in Fitzrovia.

Yard Sale Pizza to open fifth site

Yard Sale Pizza to open fifth site

By Stefan Chomka

Yard Sale Pizza is to open its fifth London site - it’s biggest to date - in September, on the site that was formerly Bad Sports in Hackney.

Halal Guys QSR restaurant see sales drop following UberEats delisting

Halal Guys see sales drop following UberEats delisting

By James McAllister

Sales at US-founded fast casual chain The Halal Guys’ first UK site have been hit by 20% after it was delisted by UberEats because it has yet to receive a food hygiene rating from Westminster Council.

How I Got Here with Razak Helalat who runs The Salt Room and The Coal Shed restaurants in Brighton and London

How I Got Here: Raz Helalat

By James McAllister

Razak Helalat runs The Salt Room and The Coal Shed in Brighton and a further The Coal Shed at London’s One Tower Bridge development. This weekend the latter will launch a 60s-style Surf 'n’ Turf brunch menu featuring Himalayan salt-aged sirloin and...

Butcher and the Farmer farm to table restaurant concept to make European debut

Butcher and the Farmer to make European debut

By James McAllister

Australian-founded ‘farm to table’ concept Butcher and the Farmer is to make its European debut at the ICON Outlet shopping centre at London’s The O2 in September.

Tony Naylor ambitious chefs vs ingrate guests

Ambitious chefs vs ingrate guests

By Tony Naylor

Prue Leith is the latest influential foodie to lay into modernist chefs. Is it time to show these pioneers more respect?

Flash-grilled Paul Welburn

Flash-grilled: Paul Welburn

By James McAllister

Paul Welburn, who has worked under Andrew Pern, Brian Hughson and Richard Corrigan during his career, is executive chef at the Michelin-starred Oxford Kitchen in Oxfordshire.

Nathan Outlaw Siren The Goring first new restaurant in the London hotel in 109 years.

Latest opening: Siren

By Stefan Chomka

Nathan Outlaw has responded to the call of The Goring and opened the first new restaurant in the London hotel in 109 years.

Plant-based tuna makes its European debut in London

The Lowdown: plant-based 'seafood'

By James McAllister

A plant-based alternative to raw tuna, which up to now has only been available in the US, is to make its European debut at the Harro Food’s Japan Show at Hyper Japan this weekend.

How London's Chinatown is changing

Big trouble in little China?

By Joe Lutrario

Chinatown is changing. The number of Cantonese restaurants is being reduced with the introduction of more specialist, regional Chinese and pan-Asian places in a bid to attract a broader spectrum of customers. But as the big money international players...

How I Got Here Rebecca Mascarenhas

How I Got Here: Rebecca Mascarenhas

By Joe Lutrario

Rebecca Mascarenhas, who co-owns the Michelin-starred Elystan Street in Chelsea and Kitchen W8 in Kensington with chef Phil Howard, has more than three decades of industry experience. Next month her first restaurant, Sonny's Kitchen, will close its...

Dusk restaurant opening in Essex

Latest opening: Dusk

By James McAllister

With a dry bar, shisha lounge, and a former Great British Menu chef fusing Mediterranean and Asian cooking with molecular gastronomy, Dusk could become one of Essex’s most eccentric dining destinations.

Tap and Tandoor gastropub to expand to Peterborough

Tap and Tandoor to expand

By James McAllister

Regional Indian gastropub concept Tap and Tandoor is to open a second site later this month next to Peterborough’s Queensgate Shopping Centre.

The Athenian restaurant on its future plans

Generation Next: The Athenian

By Finn Scott-Delany

The Greek street food player has just secured a restaurant in London Bridge for its eighth site. Owners Neo Christodoulou and Tim Vasilakis discuss bringing souvlaki to the UK.

Why restaurants need to be part of the conversation on social media marketing

The art of social listening

By Eloise Sheppard

Call Systems Technology's managing director on why it's vital to be part of the online conversation.

Rebecca Mascarenhas with Sonny's Kitchen co-owner Phil Howard

Sonny's Kitchen to close

By James McAllister

Sonny’s Kitchen, Rebecca Mascarenhas’ first restaurant, is to close its doors having operated in Barnes for 33 years.

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