Monday Bulletin: The Hart | DOMA | St. John

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THE HART

Public House Group has stepped on the gas. Having opened a pub a year since it launched The Pelican in 2022, its tally for 2025 will rise to two: the Hart, opening next month October on Chiltern Street in Marylebone, follows The Fat Badger, which launched earlier this year in Notting Hill. In common with the other pubs in the stable – the Pelican in Notting Hill, the Bull in Charlbury, the Hero in Maida Vale, and the afore-mentioned Fat Badger – the Hart will be deeply food-focused. The ground floor will operate as a ‘proper boozer’ serving British beers, pies, and pork, while the second-floor dining room will serve a nostalgic menu of crab cakes, bubble and squeak, steak and potatoes, banoffee pie, and lighter options for the lunchtime crowd, including soups, salads, and classic kedgeree. The Hart takes its name from the family who ran a pub on the site in the 1840s. Much of the produce will come from the group’s market garden at Bruern Farms in the Cotswolds, with pies and pâtés produced through their butchery programme. Public House Group, was founded in 2022 by Phil Winser, James Gummer and Olivier van Themsche, was founded in 2022.

DOMA

Mystic Burek’s Spasia Dinkovski, one of CODE’s Women of the Year ’24, is back with DOMA, a new Balkan feasting concept in a former kebab shop in Sydenham. Take note: she’ll be serving her famous burek on the last Saturday of every month.

FIELD NOTES

Former Native chef Ivan Tisdall-Downes has announced his debut solo project. Field Notes, a sustainability-focused restaurant and wine bar serving dishes such as morel har gow and crab tikka masala, launches in Hackney late October.

ST. JOHN

A meeting of the minds: The London Review of Books and St. John are teaming up on a new café at the London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury. The café will open daily from 1 October for Eccles cakes, madeleines, coffee and more.

• Thesleff Group, one of CODE’s Happiest Places to Work 2025, is heading stateside. Its Mexican-Japanese concept Los Mochis will open at One Beverly Hills in LA in 2027.
   
• East London bakery FORNO is to open its third site on 9 October: a new canalside café at Mile End’s Ragged School Museum.
  
  
• The Blackhorse Beer Mile in Walthamstow is holding a Harvest Festival this Saturday  4 October. Swing by the new 40ft Brewery for pints of Disco Pils and Acme Fire Cult ox cheek buns.
  
  
• The Big Mamma Group makes its Irish debut this November with the opening of  Gloria in Dublin. Signature dish? Ossobuco slow cooked in Guinness.
  
  
• Chantelle Nicholson, founder of Michelin Green Star Apricity in Mayfair, has launched her first international venture, Fjora, at 1 Hotel Copenhagen in the Danish capital.
  
  
• New at the Black Bull, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales: Tsuchi, a tasting menu concept inspired by chef patron Nina Matsunaga’s Japanese and German heritage.
  
  
• Samyukta Nair has announced the closure of her Mayfair restaurant KOYN. KOYN Thai, in collaboration with Rose Chalalai Singh, will, however, relocate. More soon.
  
  
• Tom Brown’s Pearly Queen in Spitalfields has quietly closed its doors.
  

WHAT WE’RE READING

The Eagle and the dawn of the British gastropub: The Good Food Guide

Restaurateur Jeremy King’s bold vision for Simpson’s in the Strand: Monocle

The Sierra Leonean cooking at Shwen Shwen is unforgettably delicious: The Observer

THE DUMBWAITER

Tomos Parry’s Mountain has star power. In last week, national treasure Kate Winslet.

Meanwhile, spotted at the newly relaunched Rovi in Fitzrovia, Richard Curtis having lunch, actually.

To Claridge’s for the launch of Dante’s new ‘fall’ menu which, apparently, at home in New York, is a fashionably Brit-coded ‘autumn’ menu. Fall, autumn, autumn, fall…the Dumbwaiter doesn’t care either way so long as toffee apple Manhattans are involved.