What better way to celebrate Easter Sunday than a lavish roast with all the trimmings? We’ve rounded up some of the best places across the UK to go for Sunday Lunch, according to our 2016 survey. From the traditional beef and Yorkies in a country gastropub to three course menus in some of London’s top […]
The Chancellor’s budget for 2016 has proved rather divisive since its unveiling last week. From Jeremy Corbyn’s calls for George Osborne to resign over a purported £4.4 billion black hole in the numbers to Iain Duncan’s Smith’s dramatic exit, it has split opinion among the general public, politicians and the catering industry. One aspect of […]
The Sunday Times’s AA Gill revisits Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy in its new form as Pharmacy 2 in Vauxhall and finds things have changed considerably since the Notting Hill original launched in 1998, when the opening was ‘like a red-carpet premiere, a mob of paparazzi and rubberneckers, double-parked limos, teeth and tits’. “I was surprised at […]
Des McDonald’s pop-up project on the Roof at Selfridges, Oxford Street, will relaunch Forest Restaurant & Bar on 24 March with a new look and menu. Last year the restaurateur and London’s landmark department store transformed the outdoor space into an autumnal woodland version of Forest Restaurant & Bar, but its latest iteration will have a spring time […]
The Brew (group) One bun to eat-in: £3 Four to take-away: £4 Looking for a luxury hot cross bun this Easter? From 16 March until the end of the month, Brew in Putney, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Clapham and Chiswick will be selling these goodies to eat in or take-away. Freshly made on site every day by Brew’s hellfire bakers. […]
Yet another street food trader puts down permanent roots as purveyor of Eastern-influenced, charcoal grilled meats and fish, Walter and Monty, launches a standalone restaurant in the City. The 30-cover venue opens its doors next month with free food at lunchtime on 14 & 15 April. There will be no bookings for the soft launch so […]
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. […]
Northcote, Langho: Easter Escape Special Rates available Easter Monday-Thursday 31 March £145 pp Dine in Northcote’s celebrated restaurant, enjoy Nigel Haworth’s five-course gourmet menu, relax with a night’s stay, and wake up to a fabulous breakfast. A “love-it-or-hate-it” refurb a couple of years ago (most reporters love it), complete with “numerous alterations and extensions” (and the […]
What is possibly London’s most beautiful restaurant, an extraordinary neo-Byzantine dining room on Piccadilly Circus (formerly the Criterion), has been resurrected by the Gatto family – owners of Milan’s famous Savini restaurant. It will be officially relaunched as Savini at Criterion on Friday 18 March. The original Criterion – where mediocre food always played second fiddle to dazzling […]
A new bar & grill backed by restaurateur Kurt Zdesar (of Chotto Matte fame) arrives in the heart of Mayfair later this month. Black Roe Poke Bar & Grill will specialise in raw fish with a Pacific slant alongside other fresh seafood and oysters, as well as wood grilled meats. Its crowning glory will be a Poke […]
