Marcus Wareing has announced Chantelle Nicholson as chef-patron of Tredwell’s, his group’s more casual offering in the heart of Theatreland. Since opening in Covent Garden in 2014, the restaurant has not had an easy ride from press or from Harden’s reporters who say it’s “a let-down after such high hopes” – “nearly so good… but somehow just […]
Caprice Holding’s “brilliant”, “friendly” and “glamorous” (the superlatives go on) seafood staple, J Sheekey’s Oyster Bar, will become the J Sheekey Atlantic Bar this summer. With the new name comes a new menu and a revamped, 50-seater dining terrace, launching on 22 June. The menu will include an all-new lobster section (available until 10 September when […]
What could be better on a sunny summer’s evening than a trip to Taplow’s impossibly grand Thames-view palazzo, Cliveden House. This month readers can enjoy chef André Garrett’s three course Market Menu, with a glass of champagne, for £55 pp. Over the past couple of years, Garrett has been credited with transforming the cuisine at […]
The team behind South Ken’s Macellaio RC – which has long been “knocking more macho steak houses into a cock hat” according to our reporters – will launch a new restaurant in Southwark’s Union Yard arches in August 2016. Founder Robert Costa first expanded his winning formula of “the best steaks ever” paired with an ingenious […]
Taste London’s best Sunday Roast £55 pp Voted the best place in the capital to get a juicy slice of beef on the bone, according to our 2015 survey, The Rib Room is “a real treat in every respect”. This luxurious, well-spaced Belgravia dining room is firing on all cylinders after its revamp last year; as […]
Here’s a prize that readers can really get their (ahem) claws into. We’ve teamed up with crab specialists CLAW to offer one lucky reader (and three of their friends!) the chance to win burgers and beers at the pop-up’s latest residency – The Hat & Tun pub in Farringdon. The prize includes one CLAW burger […]
Never mind dining like a queen – this weekend dine like The Queen in honour of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday. Although Elizabeth II’s birthday was actually back in April, ceremonial celebrations are now in full swing. We’ve rounded-up all the UK restaurants where our longest reigning monarch has dined (or rumoured to have dined) in […]
Soho’s “fun and funky” free-range rotisserie chicken spot Clockjack has expanded into the City with a new restaurant kitchen dedicated to delivery. Feeding off the phenomenon that is Deliveroo, the venture (backed by David Moore of Pied à Terre et-al) has no front-of-house operation and simply offers Square Mile businesses and residents the chance to have freshly […]
The ex-Viajante chefs behind street food phenomenon TÄ€ TÄ€ Eatery have teamed up with Curio Cabal coffee shop to bring their ‘Chinese family style’ rice fix with a Portuguese twist to Haggerston. The pair’s first permanent site will initially open for Thu-Sat dinner only from 16 June. Chefs Zijun Meng and Ana Gonçalves, both ex-Viajante […]
The family team behind Mirabell Café has opened a new wine bar on Hammersmith Road, not far from Kensington Olympia. Mirabell Wine Bar focuses on fine cheese and wine, with 35-covers inside and 16 al fresco tables for when (if!) the fine weather arrives. There’s a range of bottles from carefully chosen Old and New […]
