There’s a lamentable crop of reviews this week – Tom Parker Bowles failed to appear in The Mail on Sunday, there’s just one review from The Telegraph, Grace Dent would rather be in east London and The Times reviewers probably just wish they hadn’t bothered. Rovi, London W1 (****) Fay Maschler for The Evening Standard […]
The owners behind the popular Gymkhana, Hoppers, and Trishna restaurants are growing their empire yet further. The JKS siblings, Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina, will open a Persian restaurant in Soho in October. This comes soon after the arrival of Brigadiers in the City – a vast labyrinth of an establishment that has been met with press raves since […]
Edinburgh restaurateur Tony Crolla is set to open a £3 million fish and chip restaurant in a former church. Crolla will launch a “contemporary”, 270-cover restaurant across three floors at St John’s church in Victoria Street. The restaurant, as yet unnamed, will offer an affordable menu, with traditional British dishes each given an inventive twist. […]
Harneet and Devina Baweja’s second Gunpowder restaurant is set to open at One Tower Bridge this month. The site follows the pair’s intimate 20-cover Shoreditch restaurant of the same name, which has proved a hit with our reporters thanks to its “surprising flavours” and “fantastic tapas-style dishes”. We listed Gunpowder in our top five Indian […]
Zelman Meats St Paul’s has closed. The steak restaurant completed its final service on July 27. Its sister restaurant in Soho won Best Steak restaurant at the Harden’s Restaurant Awards 2017. Dave Strauss, director of operations at Goodman Restaurants, which operates the brand, said on social media: “A sad day but it wasn’t working. Good […]
News reaches us of dinner for an excellent cause. Chef John Lawson will be hosting a dinner alongside former mentor Raymond Blanc OBE and fellow protégés Robin Gill and Ollie Dabbous in aid of the Brain Tumour Research Campaign. Taking place at Lawson’s restaurant, Food, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the brain cancer survivor will cook with his fellow […]
Last year, Harden’s reporters welcomed newcomer DUM Biryani, which specialises in India’s authentic rice dishes, and was praised for “delivering the best biryani in a long time” at this “easy to miss Soho basement”. DUM-bing down with brunch? This summer, the restaurant is diving deeper into the coastal flavours of south east India by way […]
Angela Hartnett’s Mayfair restaurant Murano will celebrate its 10th birthday this autumn. Murano opened in 2008 and to celebrate a decade of pasta and prosciutto Hartnett will be hosting a series of special events. Angela will be welcoming guest chefs in for one-off dinners, putting on a limited edition birthday menu comprising some of Murano’s […]
In The Sunday Times magazine this week, Dolly Alderton left a sweltering London for the Cotswolds, and reviewed The Bell, in Langford, expecting to cringe at a village that “fulfils the Cotswoldian prerequisite for chocolate box to the point of saccharine toothache”. But it turns out that she likes this picture-postcard Middle England almost as […]
The team behind The Clove Club is set to open a third restaurant in September. Two Lights will also be in East London, and will be headed up by The Clove Club’s American head chef Chase Lovecky. The venture will replace a restaurant called Amici Mei. Owner Isaac McHale provided a little more information on […]
