Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 18 August 2019. Flor, London SE1 Jimi Famurewa for The Evening Standard found Southwark newcomer Flor to be “lightly challenging” and “utterly astonishing”, with food that “hits a sweet spot between the unexpected and the familiar… between thoughtful, modern refinement and messy, chin-dripping joy”. […]
Venezuelan restaurateurs Gabriel and Jose-Luis Gonzalez are to open Caracas in Westfield London, White City. The casual dining restaurant will be a homage to their homeland, inspired by the buzzing arepa bars across the country, particularly in the capital. The brothers’ menu will aim to show off the best of Venezuelan cuisine, with the arepa […]
Indian street food concept Indico is opening a second site in Birmingham. The first, in Shirley, Solihull, has been described as “Shirley’s finest Indian street food restaurant”, serving classic snacks found at Indian railway stops and traditional curries inspired by the food of northern India. Indico’s second location will open in Birmingham’s Mailbox complex in […]
Just a month after Monty’s Deli announced the closure of its sterling sandwich shop in Hoxton, a new site has been revealed. Harden’s reporters will be pleased, given Monty’s is widely believed to be “hands-down the best place to get deli food in London”. The salt beef sandwich specialists are to take on a spot […]
The Hoxton Hotel and Brooklyn oyster and cocktail joint Maison Premiere are to launch Seabird in Southwark this September. The partnership sees one of the world’s best bars – number 91 on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, among other accolades – join forces with one of London’s trendiest hotel groups. While cocktails and oysters […]
Hospitality entrepreneur Melanie Brown is to open The Laundry in Brixton, a “new modern neighbourhood bistro and wine shop” on Coldharbour Lane. Located just outside Brixton Village, The Laundry will be open all day, everyday and will “focus on simple, quality ingredients and diligent care and attention paid to provenance”. But of course. The Laundry […]
Boxpark has appointed financial firm KPMG to help it find further investment to develop its portfolio and expand out of London. The pop-up mall group currently counts Shoreditch, Wembley, and Croydon on its roster, but plans are afoot to cast a wider net. Back in London, Harden’s understands the company was also investigating a location […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 11 August 2019. Pilgrim, Liverpool Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times had very little time for the marketing “tripe” surrounding the new Duke Street Market flagship restaurant she visited in Liverpool – one of the many new additions to the UK’s food scene, […]
Chef Patrick Williams and Amy Corbin, of Corbin & King fame (daughter of the former), plan to open two more sites in Peckham, where their debut restaurant Kudu launched in 2018. The pair announced their plans on Instagram. One fixture will be a tapas restaurant called Little Kudu, and a second will be a cocktail […]
LA hype restaurant Eggslut (yes, that’s what it’s called), has opened in London. At a launch on Tuesday evening, half of West London’s Instagram influencers turned up to photograph egg, bacon and cheese buns, egg salad in brioche, and the ‘Slut’ (again, yes), which is potato puree bedded beneath a coddled egg and chives. In […]
