The Lockhart’s Brad McDonald brings his talents (and authentic Deep South cooking) to Soho with a new BBQ-focused restaurant Shotgun; Matt Whiley (AKA The Talented Mr Fox) put together the cocktail list. This latest slice of Americana to hit London opened in the growing restaurant hub that is Kingly Street (just off iconic Carnaby Street). […]
Bringing a bit of ’80s kitsch to Islington – as well as a taste of mainland China – is a new all-day dining room, Chinese Laundry. Designed to look like an average Chinese home (from the era of leg-warmers and Walkmans), the restaurant serves traditional cuisine and an exotic cocktail list with white spirits (baijiu). On the […]
Mission, the second project from husband and wife team Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wilde (also behind Sager & Wilde funnily enough), has acquired a hot new head chef straight from paparazzi-magnet the Chiltern Firehouse. Aussie chef Sebastien Myers is part of a brand new team for the Bethnal Green restaurant, which also includes: Marcis Dzelzainis of […]
It’s been long-considered (by our reporters) to be the best restaurant in Clapham “by a mile” – now Adam Byatt’s Trinity is about to unveil a brand new look with additional dining space. The chef’s “outstanding but unassuming” south London HQ, which first appeared on the scene in 2006, will reopen this week following a three and […]
Some national awareness days and weeks (Talk Like a Pirate Day, Mole Day, Knitting Week) can elicit a raised eyebrow, or even a sigh – but this is one celebration we can all get on board with. Yes, it’s National Chocolate Week, seven days devoted to the delicious and deadly love of cocoa. If you’re […]
This month as Brew launches its fifth site on Chiswick High Road, featuring a new bespoke design and a custom-made pizza oven to nurture their “Hellfire Pizzas.” The Antipodean-style café chain launched its original site in Clapham in 2009, and since then has added outposts in Wimbledon, Putney and Wandsworth. The menu at Brew Chiswick […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. Trending Restaurants 1-7 Oct […]
Yet more hip, pop-up news for Hackney’s über-trendy London Fields as self proclaimed ‘East End drinks maverick’ Gerry Calabrese (founder of Hoxton Pony and Hoxton Gin) brings a new venture to Hackney’s Laundry Building. Wringer & Mangle will take over the site that until recently housed Scott Hallsworth’s (of Kurobuta fame) pan-Asian eating and drinking […]
Just as their professional relationship was really starting to pay dividends at Gordo’s eponymous Chelsea flagship, news arrives that Clare Smyth is planning her first solo venture, with backing from her mentor. The new partnership will see Ramsay assist his former exec chef in finding a new location in London in which to set up […]
Mark Hix will open his first stand-alone Mark’s Bar at The Old Vic on 17 October 2015. This is the restaurateur’s third drinking den, the original Mark’s Bar Soho (below his restaurant on Brewer Street) was followed up with a second outpost in Bankside last year. The bar at The Old Vic will be open […]
