Evening Standard - ES Magazine
FRESH PLATES
The hot new spots across the capital
BOTTLE AND RYE
Still mourning the loss of Salon in Brixton? Fear not: Robin and Sarah Gill have opened a Parisian-inspired natural wine bar and eatery in the same spot. Salut! Now Open. 404-406 Market Row, SW9 (bottleandrye.com)
ISIBANI
If you were impressed by Victor Okunowo on 2020’s MasterChef: The Professionals, venture to Knightsbridge where he’s serving up his refined West African cooking. Now open. 9 Knightsbridge Green, SW1 (isibani.com)
CARRUBO & IN HORTO
Perch at bay-side inspired bar Carrubo for cocktails, or on the In Horto terrace, by the same team, for rustic sharing plates cooked in an outdoor brick oven. Now open. 53B Southwark Street, SE1 (inhorto.co.uk; carrubo.co.uk)
THE BARING
North Londoners, this is your new local, hidden just off the Regent’s Canal. Expect seasonal, elevated pub grub, small batch beers by Burning Sky and low intervention wine. Now open. 55 Baring Street, N1 (thebaring.co.uk)
TATALE
Akwasi Brenya-Mensa is giving his contemporary pan-African cuisine a permanent home at The Africa Centre. We’ll race you for the plantain cheesecake. Now open. 66 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 (tataleandco.com)
MIZNON
Can you hear that? That’s us squealing at the fact Eyal Shani is bringing his cult filled pita breads and Israeli street food to London. We’ll take the lamb kebab. Now open. 8-12 Broadwick Street, W1 (@miznonlondon)
CAIA
Settle in at this new spot for old world vino, wood-fired small plates and Stranger Than Paradise records founder Noreen McShane’s cracking vinyl collection. Now open. 46 Golborne Road, W10 (caia.london)