Seafood
- Test Driving Pearly Queen - Tom Brown's Spitalfields oyster bar makes a big impression
Cornerstone's Tom Brown has opened his second restaurant, a seafood restaurant and oyster bar in the East End. We went to Commercial Street to take a look.
- Faber seafood restaurant lands in Hammersmith with a daily catch
Having made a name for themselves and their seafood-focused pub The Victoria in Mile End, Matt Ward and Anthony Pender are branching out with the first of what could be a series of seafood restaurants.
Faber, which opened in Hammersmith this month, is a continuation of the duo's obsession with fresh fish. At Faber they'll be working with day boat fishermen, "this means that everything on our menu is
... - Test Driving Manzi's - the huge seafood restaurant in Soho, complete with mermaids
From the group behind The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel, Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho with occasionally bonkers touches. We went in to try it out.
- Cornerstone's Tom Brown is opening Pearly Queen oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields
He's had a lot of success with Cornerstone and now Tom Brown is getting his second restaurant ready, the seafood-led Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (taking over from The Space on Commercial Street).
Billed as both an oyster bar and a restaurant, UK-sourced oysters will be a big thing on the menu, both fresh and grilled, and there will be
... - Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho from The Wolseley Group
Updated 8/6/23 with opening date
As the first new restaurant to be opened by The Wolseley Hospitality Group since it was formed following the departure of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, all eyes are on Soho for the reveal of Manzi's.
The restaurant is named after the much-loved (but now closed) legendary London fish restaurant. It's not on the same site - the original Manzi's was
... - Test Driving London Shell Co in Highgate - a cosy neighbourhood fishmonger and seafood bar
Just off Hampstead Heath you'll find this new fishmonger and seafood bar. We went to check it out.
- London Shell Co lands in Highgate with a fishmonger and seafood bar
Hot Dinners exclusive - updated 15/3/23 with opening date
They already have two barges, one roaming and one moored, but now London Shell Co are moving onto terra firma. They're getting ready to open their first land-based site, a fishmonger and seafood bar near Parliament Hill.
The move is rooted in something they did to survive the lockdowns, a period
... - America's Angry Crab Shack arrives in London
7/3/23 - updated with the opening date
Hard on the heels of Boston's Saltie Girl opening in London comes news of another American seafood import.
Angry Crab Shack is a restaurant group that was first opened in Arizona back in 2013 by former NFL player Ron Lou. It's billed as a 'bib up and
... - Test Driving Saltie Girl - the Boston seafood import hits Mayfair
All the way from Boston, this US import is hoping to make itself an indispensable seafood spot for anyone shopping on Oxford Street.
- Saltie Girl are bringing their Boston lobster rolls and tinned fish to Mayfair
21/10/22 - opening date added
Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.
Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.
For their London opening they've brought in
... - Celebrity hangout Scott's is opening in Richmond
Updated 26/9/22 with photos
He's already had a lot of success with expanding his Ivy restaurant group across the country. Now Richard Caring is getting ready to do the same with Mayfair classic seafood restaurant, Scott's. And the first place he's expanding to is south of the river, in Richmond.
Announced earlier this year, Caprice Holdings has revealed a little
... - The best fish and seafood delivered in London
Looking to get all your fish and seafood delivered to your door? We've rounded up some of the best places delivering in London now.
- Max's Sandwich Shop teams up with Burger & Lobster for two very special rolls
Well here's a collab we can 100% endorse - Max Halley of the legendary Max's Sandwich Shop is teaming up with Burger & Lobster for two lobster roll specials that are hitting the group's nine restaurants.
The first, the Lobster Cocktail Roll, is a brioche roll stuffed with lobster claw and knuckle meat with a retro Marie Rose sauce that's finished with a dash of tabasco and brandy. That's topped with
... - Test Driving Goddard & Gibbs - bringing seafood to Shoreditch
Goddard & Gibbs is a new seafood spot in Shoreditch and part of the brand new One Hundred Shoreditch hotel. We went down to take a look.
- Shutters opens at One Canada Square with its Cali-Cornish seafood mix
It takes a brave soul to put a seafood restaurant in the lobby of one of London's biggest office blocks (here's hoping their extraction is top-notch), but the folks behind Shutters which has just opened up at One Canada Square are hoping their mix of Cornish fish and Californian vibes will be a winning formula.
The team behind it are Cornish company The Happiness Cartel who also run a Shutters restaurant down in Marazion in
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