Watch out, Bambino, there’s a new pizza joint in town and it’s coming to steal your customers! Mani opened last month in the Drury Street premises formerly home to Blazing Salads.
The cost-of-living crisis continues to impact the restaurant industry from all sides. Eating out has become prohibitively expensive and customers are more selective than ever before about where they are going to spend their hard-earned money.
I don’t know whether Vincent Crepel is a believer in manifesting, but the display of his personal collection of Michelin Guides in the dramatically lit preservation corridor of Terre restaurant is surely a statement of intent. You pass through en route from pre-dinner drinks in the (curiously frumpy, given what lies ahead) salon ‘The start of your journey!’ the restaurant manager tells us excitedly to the dimly lit open kitchen, where the air smells tantalisingly of smoke.