Our latest monthly recap of the hottest new food and beverage openings from around the world on TrendHub is live, spotlighting six highlight openings from October here on the blog.
In no particular order, six highlights from the longer foodwatching and drinkswatching new opening lists are:
Songbird, Sydney
Neil and head chef Mark Lee's menu, at this three-storey Cantonese restaurant, has over 70 dishes, with a focus on Australian produce. Highlights on the extensive menu include scallop spring rolls with sweet black vinegar sauce, Peking Duck with hoisin, condiments and mandarin pancakes or stir fried red braised David Blackmore wagyu with oyster mushrooms and Kampot pepper sauce.
The suppliers they use are key to the business, with line-caught fish from Ben Collinson and Anthony Heselwood, and Peking duck from Brent's Wollemi ducks. The wine list has over 250 bottles and spirits from a diverse range of premium suppliers, which are used in their cocktails too.
Find out more here.
Bar Madame, Singapore
As well as expertly crafted cocktails and boutique rare and refined spirits, the bar offers over 150 curated wines from around the world. They also serve Parisian-inspired drinks. The feature a set of cocktails that pay tribute to iconic women. The decor has Maison Drucker inspired chairs and images of influential women on the walls, making every night a lady's night. After a soft opening early in the year, the bar is now officially open.
Find out more here.
Briar Restaurant, Bruton Somerset
Ex-River Cottage chef Sam Lokas is taking over the restaurant at Number One in Bruton. The menu will change daily, focussed on hyper-seasonal ingredients, mainly from the restaurant's garden, local suppliers and foraged ingredients, served as small plates, snacks, sharing dishes and puddings.
The restaurant will be a warm and friendly neighbourhood spot, focussing on the West Country, serving everything from drinks and snacks to a full-blown dinner.
Find out more here.
Oriole Cocktail Bar, London
The pop-up bar has been appearing as Prelude for a few months but is now in a bricks and mortar site in Covent Garden as Oriole. it is split across two floors, the bar is in the basement, with the restaurant upstairs, serving Latin American dishes.
Bar director Samet Ali has developed a new menu using their in-house bar lab, that has lots of scientific equipment like the Ultrasonic Homogeniser. Find updated classics along with new cocktails, as well as bigger shared drinks. You can get bar snacks upstairs and jazz in the basement. The Bamboo Bar is upstairs where cocktails mainly feature sherry and vermouth and cocktails on draught.
Find out more here.
Torno Subito by Massimo Bottura, Miami
The restaurant is going to be a modern playful twist on Italian cuisine. The kitchen is run by Chef Bernado Paladini, ex Torno Subito in Dubai, where he achieved a Michelin star. Having been in Miami for a while now, Bernado has relationships with the local cheesemakers, farmers, ranchers and fisher people already.
The menu will consist of handmade pasta, seafood, meats and vegetable dishes. There will be interpretations of classic foods such as the Modern Salad with 14 dressings that combine ingredients from Modena, Dubai and Miami or I Love Tartar where diners create their own dish. They also have a take on the classic Oops, I Dropped the Lemon Tart dessert, called Oops, I Burned the Key Lime Pie. The bar menu includes four sections, Negroni Sessions, Spritz Selection, Martini and Beach.
Find out more here.
Elvis Bar, New York
Elvis is a Parisian-style wine bar with natural wines and cocktails, offering small plates of food, all by Paradise Projects and Golden Age Hospitality.
Food is light bites including a peanut butter and bacon sandwich as a nod to Elvis, along with French-style pates in a jar and tartare de boeuf. Both the interior and exterior is in a bright orange colour, with a 17-foot rack of wine glasses hanging above the bar, in a nod to the previous longterm occupant - The Great Jones Cafe. Int he warmer weather there will be a sidewalk (pavement style) café.
Find out more here.
--
Every month we compile more comprehensive lists of the most noteworthy openings across both food and drink from around the world over on the tfp TrendHub. Subscribers can see these lists for October 2024 in full over on our foodwatching and drinkswatching reports. If you're not yet subscribed but are interested in receiving our regular reporting service then get in touch.
Image credit - Briar Restaurant, Bruton Somerset