Devilishly spicy Thai pop-up som saa (currently housed within Hackney’s trendy Climpson’s Arch) is looking for a permanent home – and they need backers. Founded by chefs Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie – who met at London’s prestigious Nahm under the tutelage of the somewhat legendary David Thompson – and managed by Tom George, the restaurant has […]
London restaurants now have an even easier way to accept table reservations thanks to a new partnership between Harden’s, the UK’s leading restaurant guide, and tech start-up Twizoo. Innovative technology developed by Twizoo means that restaurants can automatically take real-time bookings in response to customer tweets, creating the first service globally to offer automatic restaurant bookings […]
The Evening Standard’s Grace Dent seeks out Shoreditch’s latest smokehouse venture, Rök, concerned that it may be a another tedious, cavernous, edgy-by-numbers barbecue joint, which – she says – it absolutely is not. “Rök is small — 40 seats — and elegantly formed, dispatching gorgeous, highly devourable sharing plates of exquisite British produce with a Nordic […]
Celebrate the return of native oyster season at Bentley’s in Mayfair with half a dozen complimentary oysters to share between two. On Wednesday 16 September all Harden’s readers who book at table for lunch or dinner at this venerable seafood institution will get three free bivalves per person. Just quote ‘Oyster Festival’ when you make […]
The Jones Family Project has just launched a new sharing Negroni cocktail – and we’re offering you the chance to try one for free! Take a friend along to this welcoming bar and grill in trendy Shoreditch and split a fruit-infused Negroni (London’s fashionable drink of the moment) served in a porthole-shaped container. Officially the […]
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 27 […]
The duo behind Marble Arch’s little taste of San Sebastian, Donostia, have added a sister restaurant just across the road from the original. Lurra -inspired by the charcoal and wood grills (or Erretegias) found throughout the Basque country – opened in Seymour Place on 2 September. Donostia arrived on the London dining scene in 2012 courtesy […]
The tipping tornado, which has sucked big names like Côte, Bill’s, Las Iguanas and PizzaExpress into the eye of its storm, continues to gather momentum. Now the government has weighed in with business secretary Sajid Javid ordering an investigation into what he describes as the ‘abuse’ of tipping in restaurants. The minister said he was […]
Queen of Mexican street food and Wahaca founder Thomasina Miers is to open a second outpost of her DF/Mexico brand on Tottenham Court Road on 17 September. It is part of the Tottenham Court Walk development which also boasts a Hotel Chocolat alongside various fashion shops like Zara and Primark. The 130-cover restaurant launches almost […]
Mayfair’s Le Chabanais has closed just two weeks after Inaki Aizpitarte, the chef behind the estimable Le Chateaubriand in Paris, severed ties with the restaurant. Proof, perhaps, (if proof were needed) that no matter how enthusiastic the hype, a big name with an even bigger price-tag is no guarantee of a sure-fire winner. Signs of […]
