Harden’s has today released the final shortlist for this year’s definitive London Restaurant Awards, which takes place on 10 September in the ballroom of The Langham, London. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 28-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers. Â This year 8,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the categories specified by Harden’s. […]
In The Guardian, Jay Rayner was searching for somewhere easy to eat near the Royal Albert Hall, and stumbled upon a gem in Tozi, a Venetian cicchetti (small plates) spot that’s attached to the Park Plaza Hotel (he wasn’t aware of this when he booked). It’s unmistakably  ‘London’ – “an echoing space of huge white-washed […]
In his first interview after his well-publicised difficulties with Jamie’s Italian, Jamie Oliver gave access to the FT this week to present his case about what went wrong at the troubled group. His most gripping revelations surround the day he suddenly learnt that he was going to have to write a personal cheque for £7.5m […]
A new branch of mid-market Thai restaurant Thaikhun is set to open in Liverpool. The group is growing. Liverpool’s site will be the tenth in the chain, with sites already established in the likes of Glasgow, Manchester, Cambridge, and Guildford. Thaikhun is the work of Grosvenor Europe and Thai Leisure Group (TLG), which sees Liverpool as […]
Homeslice is to open its sixth London restaurant early next year. The pizzeria will join the likes of Hoppers, Bone Daddies, and Harry’s Bar in St. Christopher’s Place in Marylebone. The expanding chain also plans to move its head office to the four storey property, with ‘significant renovations’ to come. The development as a whole […]
Peruvian-inspired restaurant Pachamama is to open a second site in Shoreditch. Harden’s readers say the first site is “innovative and delicious”, serving fusion dishes combined with cocktails based on pisco and mezcal. The first Pachamama has been running for three years at its Marylebone home, and there was – at least the last time we […]
Tom Kitchin is to host a special four-course dinner at The Game Bird at The Stafford London. Kitchen will bring his seasonal Scottish food to the hotel, cooking classic fish and game dishes on September 27. On the menu is Orkney scallops baked in their shell, roast halibut with Jerusalem artichokes and black truffle, and […]
London restaurant Lorne will reopen in September after being forced to close due to flash flooding. The Pimlico restaurant was only open a year before being hit by water damage. But it didn’t need long to make a big impression. We described Lorne early on as a “modern British restaurant with an impressive pedigree: Peter Hall […]
Ever-expanding Indian restaurant chain Dishoom is opening in Manchester. The group’s seventh branch will launch in Bridge Street’s historic Manchester Hall later this year. An official date hasn’t been confirmed, but December looks likely. Dishoom’s homage to the old Irani cafes of Mumbai – then Bombay – continues, with executive chef Naved Nasir’s now famous […]
50 Kalo di Ciro Salvo, London, WC2 (****) in The Evening Standard visited the latest Neapolitan pizzeria to import itself into London (following on from L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, which recently opened in Baker Street – the first branch in Stoke Newington is no more). Despite almost everything about the place – the location (Northumberland […]
