Latest openings: Heaneys, 18 Ash Street, Native Glasgow, and more

Heaneys

 

Chef Tommy Heaney has opened his first solo restaurant on the former site of Arbennig restaurant in Pontcanna, Cardiff.

 

The former head chef of Restaurant Tommy Heaney at the Great House hotel in Laleston, Bridgend, and Wales regional finalist on BBC Two's Great British Menu 2018, Heaney raised nearly £42,000 towards the restaurant through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

 

The restaurant serves a menu of snacks and sharing plates using local and fresh produce, as well as an extensive wine and cocktail menu.

 

Opened 10 October

 

Covers 50

 

Chef-patron Tommy Heaney

 

Typical dishes Barbecue Welsh lamb, anchovy, sea vegetables; venison, potato, berries, cabbage; brill, sweetcorn, kale, Ibérico pancetta, smoked Hollandaise

 

Website www.heaneyscardiff.co.uk

 

 

18 Ash Street

 

Restaurant, lounge and late night venue Baha in Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria, has relaunched its Tasting House & Grill restaurant as 18 Ash Street, with a new seasonal menu.

 

Covers 60

 

Owner Stephen Hargreaves of Hargreaves Enterprises

 

Head chef Kevin Hodge

 

Typical dishes Beef fillet, mushroom ketchup, duck fat potatoes; chicken breast, confit shallot

 

Website www.bahabowness.com

 

 

54 Queen's Gate

 

54 Queen's Gate hotel in London's South Kensington, a Grade II-listed, Edwardian property, has reopened with rooms dedicated to characters including Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, Sylvia Pankhurst and Alfred Hitchcock.

 

Bedrooms 24

 

Owner Moteia Ismail

 

General manager James Menhinick

 

Starting room rate £189 for a single

 

Design A & J D'Alton

 

Website www.54queensgate.com

 

 

Native Glasgow

 

Aparthotel group Native has opened its first Scottish property in Glasgow's city centre. The Edwardian art deco building, formerly the headquarters of the Anchor Line Shipping Company, has been redesigned with the ethos and opulence of a 1920s ocean liner.

 

Apartments 64

 

Owner The White Building Properties Company

 

Design ICA

 

Starting room rate £95 for a one-bedroom studio

 

Website www.nativeplaces.com

 

 

Omoide

 

Former Restaurant Story head chef Angelo Sato has opened Omoide on London's Bermondsey Street, specialising in shokuji, a popular meal in Japan consisting of rice, pickles and dashi soup, as well as chirashi sushi rice bowls.

 

Head chef Angelo Sato

 

Typical dishes Chirashi rice bowl, yuzu salmon, avocado, cucumber, ginger, goma wakame; ‘humble chicken', mushrooms, shichimi mayo

 

Website www.omoide.co.uk

 

 

Restaurant Interlude

 

A Grade-II-listed mansion house, Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens near Horsham, West Sussex, has opened Restaurant Interlude, with a menu of ingredients grown on, or foraged from, the 200-acre estate.

 

Owner Penny Streeter

 

Executive chef Jean Delport

 

Typical dishes Rabbit, winter purslane, hogweed cider and charcoal; fallow deer with local braai and sour raspberry

 

Website www.restaurant-interlude.co.uk

 

 

Rockwell East

 

Rockwell East, a design-led aparthotel, has opened at London's Aldgate. Accommodation ranges from studio apartments to family apartments, each with a fully fitted kitchen, washing machine, Nespresso Coffee machine and an Abel and Cole welcome breakfast pack.

 

Apartments 57
Owner Marldon
Design Waldo Works
Starting room rate £150
Website www.rockwelleast.com

 

 

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