Monday Bulletin: Temaki | Permit Room | Dom Taylor

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TEMAKI

London’s original handroll bar Temaki, founded in Brixton in 2021, is heading to central London. The new site on Maddox Street in Mayfair, opening February, will allow the restaurant to more than double in size, with a 16-seat counter on the ground floor and a 28-cover basement dining room inspired by Japan’s listening bars. It will also offer an expanded menu, going beyond the temaki (handrolls) with which it quite literally made its name, to include Japanese small plates, A4 wagyu sliders, and sando specials, alongside wines, sakes, and a concise list of cocktails. Founder A.M. Dupee comments: “We loved our time in Brixton, and with our new creative team we are so excited to build on that success in central London, on Mayfair’s Maddox Street.”

CODE’S WOMEN OF THE YEAR 2026

Nominations are now open for CODE Hospitality’s Women of the Year 2026. Here’s your chance to shout about your inspiring female colleagues, friends, and industry heroes. Self-noms welcome too. Nominations close 27 January. 

PERMIT ROOM

Liverpool is to get its first taste of bottomless chai and bacon naan when a branch of Permit Room, Dishoom’s all-day café concept, arrives in the city in early March. You can sign up for the 50% soft launch period in late February here.

DOM TAYLOR

Chef Dom Taylor’s The Good Front Room is coming back. The modern Caribbean concept, previously a pop-up at The Langham, moves into new permanent digs in Dalston on February 5. Look forward to whole jerk chicken and coco stack sliders.

• Chef Phil Howard and Julian Dyer of NOTTO have acquired Fulham bakery, Little Sourdough Kitchen. LSK relaunches at the end of the month with the original team still on board.
  
  
• Papi in Hackney is closing its doors on 7 March after four fun-filled years. It will go out in style before returning with a new name and a new home.
  
  
• Sad news from Shoreditch also, where Nest has announced its last service will be 28 March.
  
  
• DUMBO x Rita’s is the collab we didn’t know we needed. Try their green chile cheeseburger at Rita’s in Soho on 1 February or at Rita’s and DUMBO Shoreditch, lunchtime only, from 4 February to 7 February.
  
  
• Dishoom is marking Burns Night with an inspired new creation, haggis pau, available for breakfast at all Dishoom and Permit Room sites from 19 January to 15 February.
  
  
• Another Burns Night celebration of note: Edinburgh’s Timberyard is heading to Manchester on 25 January for a haggis, seafood and whisky feast at Higher Ground.
  
  
• Cantonese roast meats specialist Mama Li’s is the latest new signing at Wood Wharf in Canary Wharf. It’s the group’s third site and will open later this month.
  
  
• The Pilgrm’s guest chef programme for 2026 kicks off next month with Nargisse Benkabbou’s Moroccan concept Ladeed, in residence at the Paddington hotel from February 4 to March 7.
  
  
• Calling all female bartenders. Applications are now open for Double Dutch’s Female Bartending Scholarship, now in its sixth year. Full details here.
  
  
  

WHAT WE’RE READING

Best breakfasts in Central London: The Good Food Guide

What’s next for London’s most beloved caff?: The Londoner

Yes, it will cost $1,500 to eat at Noma LA. René Redzepi explains why: Los Angeles Times

Three chefs on moving to Paris: How to break Paris before it breaks you: STONE

That restaurant you love will close one day. What to do?: New York Times

THE DUMBWAITER

Spot the chef. No, that’s not a nasty case of first day nerves. Luke Selby is just on a high to be starting his new role at Palé Hall in Wales. Up, up and away.

Jacob Kenedy was on positively imperial form last week, presiding over a feast fit for Caligula himself at his Soho restaurant Bocca di Lupo. Dishes including oyster with cumin, wild duck with bay and prunes, and savillum with poppy seeds – co-created with Rachel Roddy – are only available to try until 31 January so carpe diem.

It’s the trend that nobody saw coming: is 2026 the year of the niche vegetable? Next month sees Morito in Exmouth Market celebrate calçots with a calçotada every Sunday evening; while at Parrillan in Borough Yards, they’re showcasing the cardoon at a feast on 4 February.

The Traitors’ Host Claudia Winkleman celebrated her birthday last week at Maset in Marylebone. Always a faithful to good restaurants. There’s a new title in the food media world – Gourmet. Sound familiar? Condé Nast, the previous holders of the trademark, ‘slept on’ renewing it, so it’s now in the hands of five young upstarts who are reviving the name with a weekly newsletter.