Openings

The team behind the Marksman pub in London’s Hackney are to open a restaurant at the National Theatre on the South Bank in May.

As chef patron of the Swan Inn in Islip in Oxfordshire and its new Cygnet restaurant, Paul Welburn brings cheffing skills to a project where new operator Migg Inns is taking flight. Tessa Allingham reports

Claude Bosi and Samyukta Nair have hit on an underrepresented cuisine with their French bistro Socca. Andy Lynes discovers how the pair have found common ground in taking the provincial upmarket in Mayfair

Zapote, a contemporary Mexican restaurant and bar, will open in London’s Shoreditch on 9 February and will be the first restaurant from chef Yahir Gonzalez and Tony Geary.