Restaurants

Initially launched as a supper club, Santo Remedio’s first bricks and mortar site opened in Shoreditch at the beginning of 2016. Although a hit with critics and locals, the restaurant quickly closed its doors just seven months later due to issues with the building. Thanks, in part, to a successful crowdfunding campaign, however, Santo Remedio was resuscitated one year later, relocating to a new site on Tooley Street, near London Bridge. Literally meaning ‘Holy Remedy’, the operation was founded by...

Sitting within the former art deco Dalston cinema on the once gritty stretch of Kingsland Road, EartH Kitchen (the name stands for Evolutionary arts Hackney) is the new venture by the former executive chef of St. JOHN, Chris Gillard and Auro Foxcroft, founder of cultural hub, Village Underground. The new live music and art space is dramatic in both style and size. The restaurant, which lies beneath tiered seating, is a cavernous space (150 seats for diners) stylishly fitted with...

A symbol of the transient nature of life, the cherry blossom (sakura) season is a big deal in Japan. Dating back to the eight century, hanami (literally meaning “looking at flowers”) parties and picnics take place each year as the cherry blossom front sweeps the length of the country, typically beginning as early as February in Okinawa, concluding in Hokkaido around May. Throughout this period, countless festivals and celebrations take place throughout the country beneath the sakura trees, where families...

With plenty of exciting launches constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month. BAO – Borough Since launching a street food stall at Netil Market, BAO has garnered a cult following. Returning to a market setting, the Taiwanese restaurant will open its third permanent site on the fringe of Borough Market next week, accepting reservations for tables of five or more, with three new bao buns joining the new...

Following the success of Brunswick House in Vauxhall, Jackson Boxer and Andrew Clarke worked together on a brand new project last Summer. Occupying a long stretch of Shoreditch often untroubled by footfall (compared to nearby Old Street and Great Eastern Street, at least), St Leonards quickly became one of 2018’s most highly-discussed, devoutly genuflected new openings. Anybody who was anybody was utilising the space’s natural light to photograph their charcoal-baked oysters or opinion-dividing foie gras chawanmushi, plastering them all over...

By Rich Jenkins Sitting on the site of what used to be MEATliquor– a classic case of wrong restaurant, wrong place, wrong time – is Masa + Mezcal, where Mexican street food begins knocking on the door of fine dining, in Stoke’s Croft, Bristol. Opened in March, it’s the latest brainchild of Bristol restaurateurs Kieran and Imogen Waite, who are also behind Cotham’s peerless Bravas; Bakers & Co, Gambas and Cargo Cantina on Wapping Wharf, where Masa + Mezcal had...

The newest Barrafina occupies a site at Coal Drops Yard, near King's Cross station.

Following the mid 19th Century labour shortage in South America, approximately 91,000 Chinese immigrants were brought to Peru to work on the sugar plantations and mines. Typically hailing from China’s Guandong region, the settlers arrived with few material possessions, though most brought memories of recipes and ingredients such as ginger, soy sauce and spring onions. Maintaining traditional Chinese cooking methods, these ingredients would be teamed with adopted local ingredients such as Amazonian pineapples or Andean potatoes, ultimately used to create...

Following an extensive, six-year refurbishment, L’Oscar opened last year, taking over the former Baptist Church Headquarters. Built in 1903, the Grade II-listed venue closed its doors to parishioners during the 1960s after its congregation dwindled. The building has since been returned to its former glory, however, re-opened as a boutique hotel last year, designed by French architect and interior designer Jacques Garcia, also behind the likes of Hôtel Costes in Paris and La Mamounia in Marrakesh. Set over seven floors,...