Gaucho certainly seems to be having a hand in shaping the restaurateurs of the future. Last week we reported that the steak chain’s former chief exec, Martin Williams, would launch the first of his M Restaurants in the City on 12 November, and now ex Gaucho finance director, Charlie McClean is set to open an […]
A new ‘creative hub’ from the B&H Group (the people behind Reverend JW Simpson, Blitz Party and Prohibition and the Bourne & Hollingsworth Bar) has launched in Clerkenwell. The Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings, taking over the corner of Northampton Road just off Exmouth Market, features a 70-cover restaurant and greenhouse, a café, private rooms and bar. The all-in-one […]
Another pop-up restaurant has gone permanent. Peruvian BBQ and street food concept Señor Ceviche has found its first full-time home in Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street. It will join Whyte & Brown, Wright Bros, Pizza Pilgrims and many more in this now quite decent restaurant hub, which sandwiched between the rush of Regent Street’s shop and […]
It’s been in the offing for well over two years and this week London’s outpost of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. will finally open. This restaurant, based on a fictional shrimp company from the movie Forest Gump, will launch on 1 October at the Trocadero, alongside Leicester Square’s other touristic gems like the Angus Steakhouse, […]
Soho House will launch a new restaurant at London’s latest ‘Midtown’ hotel, The Hoxton Holborn, this week – Brooklyn-style grill Hubbard & Bell. The 95-cover restaurant, cafeÌ and bar takes its name from Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, as the Grade II building was formerly BT headquarters. Head chef Tim Fuller, previously […]
How would you like to enjoy a fabulous evening celebrating the best of British beef, courtesy of Harden’s? We’re offering one lucky reader the chance to win two tickets to Rotunda’s Annual Beef Dinner on 18 November at the King’s Cross restaurant. On arrival, you and your guest will enjoy canapés and talks from Rotunda’s […]
Although no foodie’s London pilgrimage would be complete without a trip to Borough Market – touristy and expensive though it has become – there is another food mecca that gourmands really ought to visit while strolling through Southwark of a Saturday. Bermondsey’s Maltby Street Market, which started life in 2010 amidst a groundswell of support […]
Grace Dent eats humble pie – and burgers – at Bobo Social The Evening Standard reviewer is forced to admit she judged this posh burger concept by its cover. Pop-ups in very poor taste? From death row dinners to human burgers, east London pop-ups become more outré. Oh dear, Marylebone’s Opso has a bad […]
Are east London pop-ups becoming too outré in their concepts for even the hippest hipsters to stomach? This week we were brought news that Death Row Dinners (tagline: eat like it’s your last meal) in Hoxton had been cancelled because of threats against the organisers and complaints over their macabre menu design, which showed black […]
This weekend Harden’s readers can get 50 per cent off at the Le Brunch residency, from French-American street food duo Le Bun, at D&D’s Old Bengal Warehouse in the City. Book in for brunch on Saturday 26 or Sunday 27 September ahead of the pop-up’s official launch on 6 October and sample their menu of […]
