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 4 June […]
Regent Street’s night-club-style Spanish rooftop operation aqua nueva reopens on Monday (15 June) with a new look and menu. The redesign was orchestrated by Robert Angell while head chef Alberto Hernandez has created a selection of small plates and Spanish dishes. The interior boasts intricate black and white mosaic floors, a copper-coloured vaulted ceiling (designed to imitate the […]
Anna Hansen will bring her inventive fusion cuisine to the City in July with a second Modern Pantry opening in Finsbury Square. The venue will feature a tapas bar, restaurant and private dining room all housed within a rather handsome Georgian building. Heading up the kitchen will be chef Rob McLeary, a protégé of Hansen’s since 2008. […]
Celebrated Club Hotel & Spa dining room, Bohemia – in Jersey’s St Helier – has unveiled a new look. Let’s hope this recent refurb’ will help improve the restaurant’s atmosphere in the hearts and minds of our survey reporters who felt it had “zero ambience”! Still, head chef Stephen Smith’s cuisine is considered by many Harden’s readers […]
For those who’ve never experienced the luxury of the airport first class lounge here’s your chance to do so – without the horror of actually going to the airport. Virgin Atlantic and Delta Airline (official airline partners of London’s O2 venue) will launch the NY-LON bar and lounge in Greenwich this July. The airlines have […]
Spice Cream Parlour launches today (9 June) in “elegant” City Indian Cinnamon Kitchen’s bar Anise – serving frozen cocktails, boozy shakes, decadent ice cream sandwiches and fizzy kulfi pops. This Indian twist on an ice cream parlour will pop-up on the restaurant’s al-fresco terrace (in Devonshire Square) until the end of July. Choose from a […]
From the indomitable Jason Atherton stable comes a new wine shop offering counter and table service tapas, opening today (9 June). Probably this country’s most consistent celebrity chef – from Pollen Street Social to City Social – Atherton’s restaurants are always a safe bet for “flavour popping” cuisine and “incredibly attentive” service, as far as our 2015 survey reporters are […]
This summer, S.Pellegrino will partner with Theo Randall (he of Mayfair’s Intercontinental hotel) and Phil Howard – chef at expense accounter restaurant of choice The Square – to bring an Italian fine dining pop-up to London. Live in Italian, Live from London will fuse Italian and British cuisine for a three course menu served across two separate evenings in […]
Last week El Celler de Can Roca regained its spot on top of the World’s 50 Best list and if you don’t already have a reservation at the Girona restaurant it’s probably already too late. But there is way you can sample some of the Roca brothers cuisine without leaving London. Ibérica has gathered together […]
Just weeks after taking on the mantle of executive chef at Strand Dining Rooms, Mark Sargeant had announced he will open his first solo London venture. The restaurateur (who runs Rocksalt and The Smokehouse in Kent) also consults on the menu at the Plum + Spilt Milk in King’s Cross’s Great Northern Hotel. Striking out […]
