The ones to watch in 2019: Restaurant openings

 

The Crown Location Chiswick, London
Owners Henry Harris and James McCulloch of Harcourt Inns
Head chef Daniele Zaffora
Covers 120
Opening January 2019

 

Henry Harris and James McCulloch’s fourth London pub, the Crown â€" formerly the Harlot â€" will offer daily changing menus showcasing simple, quality ingredients.

 

Head chef Daniele Zaffora, who worked with Harris at Racine, will present Mediterranean-inspired dishes with Sicilian inflections â€" although duck confit and brains will still be on the menu.

 

 

Pensons
Location Netherwood Estate, on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border
From Peta Darnley and Lee Westcott
Covers 46
Opening January 2019

 

Pensons is a collaboration between former Typing Room chef Lee Westcott and Peta Darnley, whose family owns the Netherwood Estate.

 

Westcott will draw his inspiration from the estate and surrounding countryside using its produce to create à la carte and tasting menus.

 

The chef said: “I’m incredibly excited to immerse myself in this new project, where the team and I will fully utilise the abundance of produce that the Netherwood Estate has to offer, alongside what we are growing in the Pensons’ kitchen garden.

 

“Working with the seasons has always been of huge importance to how I approach my menus and working alongside the team of gardeners, farmers and the gamekeepers on the estate will be very beneficial in continuing this approach. The inspiration for us all is the countryside around the restaurant.”

 

Nutshell
Location St Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden, London
Head chef and co-owner Leonardo Pereira
Opening February 2019

 

Ex-Noma chef Leonardo Pereira is branching out solo with a restaurant in London’s Covent Garden. The restaurant will be inspired by the spice trade using British ingredients highlighting Persian influences and Pereira’s past culinary experiences.

 

 

Kala Location King Street, Manchester
Owner Gary Usher
Opening February 2019

 

The sixth opening in Gary Usher’s Elite Bistros of the World group will be an all-day dining restaurant in Manchester city centre with separate bar.

 

The 55-cover restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, while the 15-cover bar will provide space for customers to enjoy a drink, British bar snacks or the à la carte menu.

 

The menu will feature bistro-style dishes, such as burrata, beef tartare, braised featherblade steak, a monkfish, spinach and tomato fondue, apple tart and crème caramel.

 

 

The Oyster Club Location Birmingham
Owner Adam Stokes
Covers 30
Opening February/March

 

Chef Adam Stokes is to open a second Birmingham restaurant called the Oyster Club, specialising in “good-quality fish and seafood”.

 

The Michelin-starred owner of Adam’s restaurant in the same city said his new venture would specialise in oysters served from a dedicated bar. Also on the menu will be small plates, such as crab on toast and moules marinière, larger plates, including teriyaki salmon and fish and chips, as well as meat and vegetarian options.

 

The restaurant will have a 20-cover bar and 30-cover restaurant, with the full menu served throughout.

 

 

Adam Handling Chelsea
Location Belmond Cadogan hotel
Chef patron Adam Handling
Executive head chef Adam Simmonds
Opening Early 2019

 

Adam Handling Chelsea will open within the new Belmond Cadogan hotel later this year.

 

Handling will collaborate with executive head chef Adam Simmonds to create dishes from the best of British produce used in a sustainable way. The restaurant, which will have its own entrance on Pont Street, will take inspiration from the building’s cultural history incorporating it into Handling’s modern British and zero waste approach.

 

Handling said: “I’m really looking forward to working together with Adam â€" I’ve been following his career for a while now and I love his style of food, it’s very similar to mine.”

 

Soutine Location St John’s Wood, London
Owner Corbin & King
Head chef Maciej Banas
General manager Daniel Craig
Opening April 2019

 

Soutine will be the latest addition to esteemed restaurateurs Jeremy King and Chris Corbin’s portfolio. King had said that the restaurant would be “Colbert meets Fischer’s”, and that it would follow those brands’ neighbourhood style, but with its own identity in keeping with the artistic heritage of the area.

 

He added: “It will be bespoke and not the beginning of a chain.”

 

 

Sam’s Riverside Location Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
Owner Sam Harrison
Opening May 2019

 

Restaurateur Sam Harrison is returning to London after several years away from the capital with the launch of Sam’s Riverside.

 

Harrison previously owned Sam’s Brasserie in Chiswick and Harrison’s in Balham, which opened in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Both were sold to Hawksmoor’s sister brand Foxlow in 2015.

 

The 90-cover restaurant will house a bar and 40 seats outside for al fresco dining, as well as a 16-seat private dining room.

 

Parrillan Location Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London
Owner Hart Group
Opening May 2019
Executive chef Angel Zapata Martin

 

Parrillan is the final opening from the Harts Group at Coal Drops Yard, joining Barrafina, Casa Pastor, Plaza Pastor and the Drop wine bar, which opened in October 2018.

 

The partially covered space will seat 100 and serve an amplified para picar (small tapas) list, as well as main dishes of meats, fish and seafood to be cooked by guests on their own tabletop grills.

 

Name to be announced Location The Goring hotel, London
From Nathan Outlaw
Opening May 2019

 

Two-Michelin-starred chef Nathan Outlaw is to partner with the Goring in London to open a seafood restaurant at the hotel.

 

The outlet will become the second restaurant at the five-red-AA-starred, 69-bedroom hotel.

 

The announcement of the restaurant follows the news last month that Outlaw’s restaurant at the Capital hotel in nearby Knightsbridge will close at the end of March 2019 after six years.

 

Outlaw’s restaurant at the Goring will provide a more casual space to the hotel’s Dining Room with a focus on Cornish produce. It will be located in an orangery overlooking the hotel’s garden, with interiors designed by Russell Sage.

 

A new kitchen is currently being built below the new restaurant.

 

Bob Bob Cité Location Leadenhall building â€" better known as the Cheesegrater, London
Owner Leonid Shutov
Chef Éric Chavot
Opening 25 March 2019

 

The sister site to Soho’s Bob Bob Ricard will finally open its doors in March this year, 14 months after originally planned.

 

Accommodating 190 covers across two dining rooms and three private dining suites, the restaurant will feature the ‘Press for Champagne’ buttons for which Bob Bob Ricard is famed, as well as chef Éric Chavot’s French country-style cooking.

 

Name to be announced Location Albert Dock, Liverpool
From Ellis and Liam Barrie
Opening Spring 2019

 

Acorn Award winners Ellis and Liam Barrie are to open their second restaurant in their home city of Liverpool.

 

The brothers have yet to the reveal details of the restaurant, but chef Ellis told The Caterer: “Liverpool’s the best city in the UK with the friendliest of people. The hospitality is great and so is the nightlife. You can’t knock it, I love it â€" that’s why it’s my first choice. I can’t wait.”

 

The new site follows their first restaurant, the Marram Grass, which the pair opened in a shed on their parent’s Anglesey caravan park in 2011.

 

 

Name to be announced Location 120 Fenchurch Street, London
Owners D&D London
Opening Spring 2019

 

D&D London will open a 9,257 sq ft restaurant on the 14th floor of the new 120 Fenchurch Street development in the City.

 

The restaurant will sit on the floor below a new public sky garden with views over the Thames and Tower Bridge.

 

 

Arros QD Location Eastcastle Street, Fitzrovia, London
Owner Quique Dacosta
Opening Spring 2019

 

Quique Dacosta, whose eponymous Spanish restaurant in Dénia, Spain, has three Michelin stars, caused a stir when he announced he would be opening Arros QD in London.

 

The restaurant will have a focus on rice and Mediterranean ingredients.

 

Darby’s Location Embassy Gardens, Nine Elms, London
Owner Robin Gill
Opening Spring 2019

 

Robin Gill of the Dairy and Sorella will be opening new restaurant Darby’s next to the new US embassy in Nine Elms.

 

The restaurant will feature an open fire and bakery and offer an Irish-influenced menu using ethically sourced ingredients.

 

Gill will also operate the Sky Pool restaurant in the same building.

 

 

The Woodsman Location Hotel Indigo, Stratford-upon-Avon
Executive chef Mike Robinson
Head chef Jon Coates
Opening Spring 2019

 

The co-owner of the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms in Fulham has said the restaurant, which sits within the 15th-century building, will showcase his passion for British produce and sustainable wild food.

 

A wood-fired oven and charcoal grill will be a focal point, giving diners the chance to watch the chefs prepare British deer, wild boar, beef and Hebridean lamb.

 

Signature dishes will include Cotswold fallow deer pavé and ‘suet pudding’ with peppercorn sauce; and slow-cooked and glazed shoulder of roe deer, vicars’ smoked bacon, turnips and black pudding with smoked bone marrow.

 

 

Market Hall Oxford Street Location Oxford Street, London
Opening Summer 2019

 

Market Halls will open its third London venue in spring, taking over the former BHS building on London’s Oxford street.

 

The flagship site will be the largest foodhall in the UK and feature local producers, retailers, restaurants, street food vendors, four bars, event spaces and a demo kitchen.

 

It follows Market Halls openings in London’s Victoria and Fulham.

 

Folie Location 37 Golden Square, Soho, London
Owner Guillaume Depoix and Thierry Costes
Opening Summer 2019

 

Guillaume Depoix will be opening a restaurant in London’s Soho with Parisian restaurateur Thierry Costes.

 

Situated on the ground floor of the new 37 Golden Square development, Folie will be “a contemporary, glamorous interpretation of a Parisian brasserie”, bringing “the essence of 1970s Saint-Germain to London”.

 

The menu will boast mainly French and Mediterranean food “reworked for the wellness generation”. The wines will be mainly French, along with a selection of organic, natural and biodynamic wines.

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To look out for

 

Crocadon Farm Location Crocadon Farm, St Mellion, Cornwall
Owner/chef Dan Cox

 

Dan Cox, formerly executive chef at Simon Rogan’s Fera at Claridge’s, has taken on Crocadon Farm in St Mellion, Cornwall.

 

The space will be run in partnership with Sean O’Neill of the Modern Salad Grower and Good Earth Growers, and consist of a courtyard of stone buildings with a 120-acre organic farm, where food will be grown and livestock reared for the restaurant.

 

Name to be announced Location Cambridge
Owner Mark Poynton

 

Mark Poynton, former chef-patron of Alimentum in Cambridge, is set to open a new restaurant in the city.

 

Poynton told The Caterer: “I want to move away from the stuff I’ve done for years and bring some fun back. The restaurant will serve simple, delicious food with no tasting menus.

 

Name to be announced Location Edinburgh
From Mark Greenaway

 

Mark Greenaway closed his eponymous Edinburgh restaurant in September, promising details of a new venture would be revealed soon.

 

Announcing his decision in August the chef said: “The new venture will feel completely different. Our intention is to boldly challenge the concept of fine dining in the heart of Edinburgh.”

 

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