Now there's to be a new Livebait Restaurant and Bar in Covent Garden, adjacent to the Lyceum Theatre at 21 Wellington Street, WC2. It will officially open on 1 December 1997 with a Bar with seating for 35 and Restaurant to accommodate 120. Although now part of Groupe Gerard, the restaurant's dynamic founders, Mark Yates and Theodore Kyriakou, will oversee the launch of the new Livebait, and Theodore will cook in Covent Garden. There's a bar menu complemented by a range of British ales, beers and stouts. More good news is that there will be a selection of 20 wines and Champagnes available by the glass.
Many fish are also available simply grilled or pan-fried and the menu changes daily.
Riverside A total of 400 can be accommodated in the 9000 square foot space on the second floor of the OXO Tower on the South Bank, where head chef John Sutherland is even offering grilled buttered lobster for breakfast. From the bar menu there is cuisine sans frontiers such as pirozhki and croque monsieur and in the main restaurant you might catch up with cajun bubble and squeak. Daphers gets into Morrocan gear Mogens Tholstrup is certainly not one to miss a trend. But his two very fashionable Sloaney restaurants, the Collection and Daphne's have been left a bit behind by the current craze for the Kazbar. Second London Restaurant for Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes, he of the spiky hair, whose 10-month old City Rhodes Restaurant , in conjunction with Gardner Merchant, has been a runaway success in the City, is poised to open a second site in late spring 1998.