All The Best New London Restaurants Opening In May
The Midland Grand Dining Room, King’s Cross
The deeply decadent and highly ravishing restaurant
This one’s a proper looker.
Situated inside The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel – which was built 150 years ago as The Midland Grand – this is the majestic Victorian hotel’s original restaurant and until 2021 housed Marcus Wareing’s The Gilbert Scott.
Pulling the strings now is the absolutely loaded restaurateur and developer Harry Handelsman (previous hits include Chiltern Firehouse), who’s enticed chef Patrick Powell from Stratford’s Allegra to whip up a menu of high-end brassiere classics which will boast beaucoups of French flair.
Doors open on May 2.
Also check out the adjacent Gothic Bar, for absinthe cocktails and louche late-night entertainment.
Carlotta, Marylebone
Big Mamma’s fifth – and most elegant? – trattoria
You surely know the Big Mamma group’s thing by now; massive Italian portions, lavish locations, and more cheese pulls than a pasta-fluencer’s camera roll.
Their latest is a leather, velvet, and marble-swathed site on Marylebone High Street, which opens on May 12 to join the fancy gang of Jacuzzi, Gloria, Ave Mario, and Circolo Popolare.
The new menu features a very Big Mamma take on some Neapolitan and Sicilian classics, with rosé veal tartare, tempura shrimp cocktail, penne alla vodka with Cornish crab, and, in traditional Big Mamma style, a dessert more lavish than Liberace himself.
This time it’s a ten-tiered choco fudge cake. Start saving room for pudding now.
Bao Mary, Marylebone
Marylebone (aka the Soho they don’t want you to know about) is having the right time of it this month.
As well as the aforementioned Carlotta, the bun squad behind Bao is opening up their very own version of a Taiwanese dumpling house on these central London side streets in mid-May.
Following branches in Soho, Borough, Shoreditch, and King’s Cross, the Marylebone branch of Bao’s focus is all about scoring fabulous food in a hurry, with the likes of boiled cull yaw dumplings and quick cold dishes – think soy braised Lu Wei vegetables – on offer for all-day dining.
Don’t miss the outside patio, perfect for summer al fresco lounging.
Lasdun, South Bank
Fans of The Marksman, please gird your stomachs, as the linen chore coat-loving team behind the beloved Hackney Road gastro pub is opening up shop just south of the river on May 11.
You’ll find Lasdun inside one of London’s most imposing buildings, the 1970s brutalist triumph that is the National Theatre, and this new brasserie will be named after the architect who designed it, Denys Lasdun.
Food will include some signature Marksman dishes, such as seasonal sharing pies and brown butter and honey tart, but seafood will be Lasdun’s main focus, especially around the space’s elegant marble oyster counter.
Source:
TimeOut
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