Venues

Keep up to date with the latest openings, closures and property deals in the restaurant, pub and hotel sectors.

Restaurant Radar: November 2018

01-Nov-2018 By Georgia Bronte

From a fine dining Chinese import in St. James to Pip Lacey's debut above a clothing store in Coal Drops Yard, we round up the openings you need to know about this month.

Peggy Porschen to launch all-day savoury menu at new Chelsea site

31-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

Pretty, Instagram-friendly bakery and cafe Peggy Porschen will launch a flagship all-day restaurant early next year.

CookDaily is back in east London a month after announcing closure

31-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

Recently-closed vegan restaurant CookDaily has moved into the site previously occupied by another plant-based restaurant in London Fields.

Latest opening: Gridiron

30-Oct-2018 By Stefan Chomka

Celebs are out, flame grilling is in at the former Met Bar on Mayfair's Park Lane.

GG Hospitality to close The Rabbit restaurant

30-Oct-2018 By Sophie Witts

GG Hospitality is to close its fine dining restaurant The Rabbit, formerly Michael O’Hare’s The Rabbit in the Moon, next month.

The Ivy Collection to launch Asian restaurant in Manchester

30-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

The Ivy Collection will debut an Asian concept next month as it launches its biggest site yet in Manchester's Spinningfields.

Northern burger group KerbEdge to cease trading after winding up order

30-Oct-2018 By Finn Scott-Delany

KerbEdge, the North East-based burger restaurant concept, has been ordered to wind up by the High Court, according to BigHospitality’s sister publication MCA.

Quique Dacosta's London restaurant to open in 2019

30-Oct-2018 By Sophie Witts

Chef Quique Dacosta has confirmed that his long-awaited London restaurant will open in Fitzrovia in early 2019.

Loui Blake chooses Fitzrovia to launch his second vegan restaurant

29-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

The vegan influencer behind a Norwich vegan restaurant and members club will open his debut London restaurant next month.

Bateaux relaunches two boats as Tom Dixon-designed restaurants

29-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

River restaurant pioneer Bateaux will relaunch two classic boats over the coming months, reinventing them as dining destinations with menus designed by the former Flavour Bastard head chef.

Another Noma alumni is to go solo with a Covent Garden launch

29-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

Former Noma and The Greenhouse chef Leonardo Pereira will launch his debut restaurant in Covent Garden next year.

Latest opening: Berenjak

26-Oct-2018 By Joe Lutrario

The Sethi family's latest project is a stripped back and affordable Iranian kebab restaurant headed by ex-Gymkhana chef Kian Samyani.

Cafe Rouge turns chicken with new virtual brand Chef & Rooster

25-Oct-2018 By Finn Scott-Delany

French restaurant chain Cafe Rouge is spreading its wings with the trial of a new chicken-focused virtual brand, called Chef & Rooster, at a number of selected sites across the country.

Ex-Noma chef to open Pucci Pizza-inspired Mayfair restaurant

25-Oct-2018 By Georgia Bronte

A former Noma and Gordon Ramsay Group chef will launch a Mayfair restaurant serving dishes inspired by now-closed King’s Road institution Pucci Pizza.