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Daddy Yankee restaurant Cholapink sets 28 October opening
Lima chef Jaime Pesaque runs the kitchen of a 60-seat fast-casual room on Spring Street in Manhattan, built around anticuchos, ceviche and a pink pisco sour.
Osteria Panzano opens: Zuma's Waney goes Italian
Osteria Panzano, a 100-cover Tuscan restaurant on William Street, opens next month with open-fire cooking and Waney's own Chianti estate behind the menu.
Mold-aged sushi restaurant Sushi Toka opens in Osaka
Chef Taniguchi and researcher Papi-Cheru pair mould ageing with tuna at an eight-seat Kitashinchi counter, serving fish cut at different stages of ageing side by side.
Gobind Chona opens second Oorja in Marylebone
Chef Jadhav Tukaram leads the kitchen at the 90-seat Northern Indian restaurant, opening November 1 with lamb shank nihari and a £21 lunch tiffin.
Les 110 de Taillevent closes in London after 11 years
The Gardinier family's wine-by-the-glass restaurant in Marylebone has entered creditors' liquidation, with liquidators appointed earlier this month.
Sébastien Chabal opens a meat restaurant in Montpellier
Hume Chabal opened at the Marché du Lez on 21 October with French-farmed meat, unlimited fries and an aperitif hour in which a six on the die clears the drinks bill.
Yukon steakhouse: Beecher's founder serves Wagyu fast in Redmond
Kurt Beecher Dammeier's Sugar Mountain group has opened a counter-service steak restaurant by the light rail: two Wagyu cuts, pre-sliced, with potatoes, salad and sauce.
Frank Bonanno opens Rōmyō, Denver's itameshi diner
The Bonanno Concepts chef turns a year of pop-up dinners into a permanent restaurant on Larimer Square, where ramen shares the menu with wagyu katsu.
Sikwa closes its Los Yoses dining room in San José
The first Costa Rican restaurant on Latin America's 50 Best, No. 25 in 2024, gives no reason or reopening date and says only that the project will transform.
Waku Ghin opens a four-seat counter and a S$250 early menu
Tetsuya Wakuda's Singapore restaurant adds Hanare, a six-course counter for four guests, and Five at Five, a two-hour Chef's Table menu with lobster and Ohmi Wagyu.
Momofuku confirms Saadiyat Grove opening in Abu Dhabi
David Chang's group has locked in its first United Arab Emirates address on Saadiyat Island, next to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The opening date is still moving between quarters.
Senzanome closes in Brussels as Giovanni Bruno opens a trattoria
Five months after losing the Michelin star it held for 21 years, the Sablon restaurant shuts on 31 October. Its chef is moving his team to GIO, a simpler Italian kitchen nearby.
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