Monday Bulletin: Endo Kazutoshi | Camille | Waterhouse

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ENDO KAZUTOSHI

With Endo at the Rotunda still closed following a fire last September, Endo Kazutoshi is preparing a twin-pronged return with Creative Restaurant Group. Opening in the former Chelsea townhouse of Five Fields this October, ENDO will be a 10-seat omakase restaurant at street level, joined by Moga, a Japanese hi-fi listening bar, on the floor above. At ENDO, the third-generation sushi master will hew even closer to the time-honoured traditions of his training, paying tribute to the intimate sushi counters of 1920s and 1930s Tokyo, the era during which his grandfather opened his restaurant in Yokohama. For the omakase, he will use only wild-caught fish from the British Isles, with rice, nori, wasabi and soy sauce produced exclusively for him by specialist producers in Japan. Moga, meanwhile, will initially be reserved for ENDO diners before opening to the public in December. In Endo-san’s words: “Like Kintsugi, the scars of last year have become part of my history; they have made me return more deeply to my roots.”

CAMILLE

The team behind Camille in Borough have a second site in the works. The unnamed restaurant will open in Farringdon in late autumn, where head chef Elliot Hashtroudi, inspired by his grandmother, will celebrate old regional British and Irish cookery and Victorian tradition.

WATERHOUSE

Just a month after its lease ended, Gabriel Waterhouse’s Water House Project is back – as Waterhouse, a modern Northumberland restaurant, wine bar and garden, at a new location off Columbia Road. The restaurant opens on 6 August; the bar follows in September.

LONDON MUSEUM

London Museum will open four new F&B concepts with Green & Fortune at its new Smithfield home, opening 28 November: Clerks House, an all-day restaurant; Bartholomew’s, a bar collaboration with Mr Lyan Studio, plus a café and residency space. Robin Gill is food curator.

• Korean matcha house TOKKIA has chosen Soho for its second location, now open on Berwick Street. Soho exclusives include agave matcha lemonade and lemon glaze salt bread.

• Missed Duda Diner’s Nunhead pop-up? Fear not, the Malaysian kitchen is back, this time at The Pilgrm in Paddington from 17 September until the end of December. Don’t miss the Duda burger with Sarawak peppercorn sauce.

• New at Brown’s of Leith in Edinburgh: Asu, an Asian-inspired kitchen from Joanna Nethery, founder of Five March in Glasgow. David Cleary, ex-Hanoi Bike Shop, is executive chef.

• Former Pahli Hill chef Avi Shashidhara takes over Shepherd’s Bush’s Queen Adelaide in September to open Talli Queen, a neighbourhood pub inspired by India’s drinking culture. Talli, if you’re wondering, is ‘tipsy’ in Hindi.

• Make way for Brooklyn’s modestly named Best Pizza. Try it at Double Standard at The Standard London from 7 August to 13 September.

• Expect ‘nostalgia to the nine’ at Whippies, the new high-concept soft-serve bar from Big Kid Ice Cream, hitting Seven Dials Market in Covent Garden next month. Make ours a 99.

• The Future of Food competition returns for 2026 with a brand-new restaurant category. Innovative restaurateurs and entrepreneurs are invited to apply by 25 September. All the details here.

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WHAT WE’RE READING

• 5 reasons why La Locanda deserved to win the title of best local restaurant in Britain: Good Food Guide

• Why open a restaurant now?: CODE

• Oslo Court: this cruise ship time warp just keeps on giving: The Standard

• Oudh 1722 restaurant review – ‘Not a mouthful missed its mark’: The Times

THE DUMBWAITER

Studio Ramsay Global has a new BBC series on the way – The Rise of the Rockstar Chef. Heston, Marco and Gordon himself are the headline acts. Quite the supergroup.

Get the lemonade on ice: school’s out for summer, so the critics’ plus ones will be their children until September. The Sunday Times’ Camilla Long was spotted out lunching with hers last week.

Four Legs’ Ed McIlroy has got his heart set on a zillion pound project somewhere in the capital. He just needs an investor. Must have pots of cash and a massive ego. Show yourselves.

The Dumbwaiter has never had a snakebite but is intrigued nonetheless by influencer James Dimitri’s valiant efforts to make this half-lager, half-cider, dash-of-blackcurrant squash beverage happen. Some bars refuse to do them, so hats off to St. JOHN for obliging, albeit with a splash of cassis. Chic!