Latest openings: Mickeys Beach Bar & Restaurant, Rudy’s Vegan Diner and more

A look at the latest restaurants, hotels, pubs and bars to open their doors.

 

Mickeys Beach Bar & Restaurant

 

Michael Caines may be best known for his Michelin-starred Lympstone Manor hotel and restaurant in Devon, but his latest opening in the South West is a more casual affair.

 

Situated on Exmouth beach, Mickey’s Beach Bar & Restaurant offers views of the Devon coastline and Exe estuary, with a menu focused on locally sourced produce and seafood landed at ports in Devon and Cornwall.

 

The upstairs restaurant serves more refined dishes and features a retractable glass terrace with outdoor seating, while a ground-floor bar will host weekend DJs and serve Mickeys’ take on hot dogs, burgers, fish and chips and pizza, alongside local Devon beers and ciders.

 

Caines has also teamed up with pastry chef Sylvain Peltier to open Café Patisserie Glacerie next door. The pair have worked together for 15 years and have created a menu of French pastries, ice-creams, coffee, milkshakes, hot pies and Cornish pasties.

 

Opened 17 May

 

Founders Michael Caines

 

Design Design Command

 

Typical dishes Devon moules marinière; Goan seafood curry; haddock and chips with local ale batter; half and whole lobster thermidor

 

Website www.mickeysbeach.co.uk

 

 

Hot Stone

 

Steak and sushi bar Hot Stone has launched its second London restaurant, in Fitzrovia. Executive chef Padam Raj Rai has created a menu using Japanese-sourced ingredients, where hot stones are brought to the table for diners to sear premium cuts of beef.

 

Opened 19 May

 

Typical dishes Maki rolls of Japanese yellow tail with mango salsa; fatty tuna sashimi with red jalapeno; green tea matcha cheesecake

 

Website hotstonelondon.com

 

 

Novotel Cambridge North

 

Accor’s Novotel brand has made its debut in Cambridge with a hotel close to Cambridge North station and Science Park. The hotel features 217 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant and bar, an on-site gym and pool and event spaces.

 

Opened 17 May

 

Operator Accor

 

General manager Cyril Bulvestre

 

Room rate From £96 a night

 

Website www.bit.ly/2QyEw1s

 

 

Rudy’s Vegan Diner

 

Rudy’s, the group behind London’s first vegan butcher, has launched a flagship restaurant on Islington’s Upper Street. The diner features an adjoining butcher and offers plant-based takes on classic American junk food.

 

Opened 17 May

 

Typical dishes The Ultimate Rudy’s Dirty Burger with baycon and cheeze slice; Rubenz sandwich with seitan pastrami on rye bread; mac ’n’ cheeze with cashew nut sauce and baycon bits

 

Website www.rudysvegan.com