Yokohama-born chef and third-generation sushi master Endo Kazutoshi’s eponymous 10-seater restaurant at the Rotunda in White City is one of London’s most celebrated fine dining venues, and one of the most sought-after reservations in London. Last week, after a months-long refurbishment, the restaurant reopened, with a full book for the foreseeable future. During the summer recess,…
For the second consecutive year and building on a triumphant 2023 debut, celebrated island restaurant, Tillies from Palm Heights in Grand Cayman will arrive in New York City this week. The restaurant will be serve a family-style sharing menu from the 41st floor at WSA in FiDi for a six-day Fashion Week pop-up. Tillies’ head…
Abby Lee is making waves. The chef’s modern Malaysian restaurant in East London’s Clapton has been one of the standout openings of the last 12 months: Mambow is a venue which through the singular vision its self-taught and prodigious chef-patron is at once mindful of preserving the culinary traditions of the home she left as…
Klaus Wittrup, a self-taught chef, has worked in diverse kitchens across Denmark, Sweden, and the U.S. Holding a masters degree in business economics and marketing, he also served two influential years as the right-hand to Claus Meyer of Noma fame. He then spent a year in Indiana, a time which he says ‘sparked his passion…
This summer, the duo behind the celebrated Michelin-starred restaurant and listening bar, Arkestra, which opened in Istanbul in 2022, opened Ritmo Zeytino, a three-month summer restaurant, bar, and artistic destination in Yalikavak, Bodrum, which marries vibrant, seasonal menus with cocktails, music and, under postcard sunsets, unrivalled views of both the coastline and the municipality. Set…
Renowned Los Angeles restaurant Gjelina opened at the 15th floor residency kitchen of New York City’s WSA, Manhattan’s venue du jour located at 161 Water Street in the Financial District last night. It marked the first service of a three-week summer residency for the Venice Beach-born restaurant, which is scheduled to reopen its site at…
Marie Mitchell’s debut cookbook – a project almost four years in the making – was published in the U.K. this month. Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen, Mitchell tells me over the phone, is a book about “change”. She says it’s much more than a cookbook: “It’s a springboard for having conversations, about how we move…
Across a walkway from Tottenham Hotspur’s giant London stadium, in a small third floor room of the old townhouse that houses the Sarabande Foundation, Leyman Lahcine is thumbing through some of his old sketchbooks. Ambient sounds from an old episode of Alex Rita’s NTS show tinkle in the background, while the minty-sweet legacy of palo…