Monday Bulletin: Tiella | KOL | Trogolo

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TIELLA

Dara Klein, one of CODE’s Women of the Year 2025, has announced a permanent home for her acclaimed pop-up Tiella, opening in early 2026 in a former pub on Columbia Road, East London. The Italian-born chef – raised between Emilia-Romagna, Salento, and New Zealand – will launch Tiella with Ry Jessup, her childhood friend and co-founder of Homeslice and The Plimsoll. Described as a “deeply personal” project, Tiella pays homage to Klein’s family trattoria, Maria Pia’s in Wellington. A familiar name on London’s restaurant scene, Klein has worked at Rubedo, Brawn, Trullo, and Sager & Wilde, and gained acclaim for her 2023 residency at The Compton Arms, dubbed ‘punk rock Pugliese’ by critic Jimi Famurewa. She is also one of the three female chefs who, earlier this year, spearheaded an open letter calling for an end to sexism in the industry.

TROGOLO

Lara Boglione of Petersham Nurseries and her husband Giovanni Mazzei will open a Florentine trattoria and bar in Notting Hill next month majoring in Tuscan wines and regional specialities like arista con l’osso, cockerel ragù, and pollo al burro.

KOL AT FIVE

Santiago Lastra marks five years of KOL with a taco party on 26 October, joined by chefs including Ana Roš and Rodolfo Guzmán. He tells CODE: “Ask someone great to do something simple, and they create something out of this world.”

MAJOR FOOD GROUP

Carbone London has only been open a month but already New York’s Major Food Group has announced its next move. It will open new concept, Major’s Grill, at luxury hotel Cambridge House Auberge on Piccadilly in Mayfair in spring 2026.

• Darcie Maher, founder of cult Edinburgh bakery Lannan, opens new shop Lannan Pantry on 28 October. PSA: the shop will be a collection point for bakery pre-orders.
  
  
• OpenTable’s annual Hospitality Summit heads to the Barbican, London on 27 October, with a packed programme that includes The Go To Food Podcast live on stage. You don’t have to be an OpenTable customer to attend; just register here.
  
  
• As part of its  #TaxedOut campaign with UKHospitality, London On The Inside is holding a round table at 6.30pm on 27 October at KERB Spitalfields. Spots are limited; email here to nab one and have your say.
  
  
• Be Inclusive Hospitality announced its Spotlight Award winners last week. Among the winners, the Black Bull’s Nina Matsunaga who took home the ‘Chef of the Year’ title.
  
  
• Supa Ya is back. Luke Findlay started dishing up his ‘traditionally inauthentic’ ramen at Arcade Tottenham Court Road last week.
  
  
• Artist Peter Doig has bought a London pub. McGlynn’s in King’s Cross will reopen once restoration and renovations are completed.
  
  
• Alex Jackson (Noble Rot, Leila’s, Sardine) has moved to The Garden Café at The Garden Museum as head chef. CODE members get 30% off.
  
  
• Market Place is going supersized. It will open a new five-storey food hall with 16 kitchens and three bars on Leicester Square in London this December.
  
  
• The Evolv Collection sees potential in its stylish Italian brand Sartoria. It will debut Sartoria Launceston Place this year, with Battersea and Liverpool Street to follow.
  
  

WHAT WE’RE READING

Where to eat in Newcastle: Anna Hedworth’s personal tour: The Good Food Guide

David Ellis reviews L’Autre ‘The best restaurant you’ve never heard of: The Standard

670 Grams, Birmingham ‘Edgy, ballsy, disruptive’: Grace Dent, The Guardian

How high-end restaurants went global: Jay Rayner, The Financial Times

THE DUMBWAITER

Bish, bash, bong. Which chef was inspired to become a chef after getting stoned with his mates watching Jamie Oliver on TV and thinking ‘I could do that’?

The Dumbwaiter loves to play ‘spot the shooting location’ on his quiet nights in front of the telly. This week, Tariff and Dale and cult grocery Unicorn in Manchester guest-starred on BBC’s Film Club, while Coin in Hebden Bridge popped up on Riot Women.

If anyone knows a beautiful restaurant when he sees one, it’s Martin Kuczmarski. The Dover founder was spotted having dinner at The Hart in Marylebone last week – the newest opening from the Public House Group. Elsewhere in the capital, Leo Woodall and Meghann Fahy went to Godet in Islington for pints and snacks from kitchen-in-residence Ling Ling’s; and a posse of Japan’s top sumo wrestlers went to – where else? – Koya.