Nikkei fusion restaurant WAKA has signed with developers and landowners Stanhope, Mitsui Fudosan and AIMCo to open in the WestWorks building in White City Place, west London. WAKA, London’s first “grab-and-go” Nikkei restaurant, the vibrant fusion of Japanese and Peruvian cuisine, will open its second restaurant in White City Place, following the success of their first in … [Read more...]

D&D London announced today that during January and February the restaurant group’s Mindful City campaign raised £22,000 for chosen charity partner, WaterAid. Launched on 10th January, D&D’s Mindful City was a group wide sustainability and wellbeing initiative. As part of the campaign, all restaurants and bars across the group enforced a ban on plastic straws, making … [Read more...]

The group behind the Middle East’s most acclaimed Lebanese restaurant, Abd el Wahab, has announced plans to open in London at the beginning of March 2018, its first restaurant outside of the Arab region. The 120-cover restaurant, located on Pont Street, Belgravia, will serve some of the most traditional and much loved dishes and wines from Lebanon and across the Middle East, … [Read more...]

April 2018 marks the beginning of the Bluebird Café expansion as the celebrated Chelsea restaurant and café spreads its wings to open at Television Centre White City, one of London’s hottest new developments. Opening out onto a piazza overlooked by the Television Centre’s famous circular core, Bluebird Café White City will be at the heart of the £8 billion regeneration that … [Read more...]

On Saturday 17th March, Tomos Parry, formerly of Kitty Fisher’s, will open his debut restaurant, BRAT, on Redchurch Street. Originally a colloquial term for ‘turbot’, BRAT draws on Tomos’ Welsh heritage and influence from the Basque region of Northern Spain, with a menu favouring seasonal British produce, cooked on an open fire wood grill. Having visited Getaria, a coastal … [Read more...]