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Jay Rayner in The Observer reviews Jean-Georges at The Connaught, where prices are as stupid as Donald Trump, but at least the food is good… “I try to avoid the flouncier excess of chef worship and napkin sniffing, but with Vongerichten I fail. I have spent atrocious amounts of my own money at his flagship high-end […]
There were a few fraught days this week for fans of Whitechapel’s Tayyabs as the Pakistani restaurant was closed by immigration officials. “It’s a crime against chops”, the Twittersphere declared on 29 August when a closure notice was posted in the famous East End venue’s window. But fear not! Tayyabs is open again and its […]
London’s NYC-inspired pizza-by-the-slice people Voodoo Ray’s have announced the upcoming launch of their fourth restaurant. Voodoo Ray’s Peckham arrives on Thursday 14 September with a 500 slice giveaway over the course of the opening weekend, as well as offering all customers 50% off food from opening day until Sunday 1 October, inclusive. Opening Weekend details: Thursday 14 September – […]
A sister bar and restaurant to Hackney hangout Wringer & Mangle will open a stone’s throw from Old Spitalfields Market on 11 September. The original launched two years ago in London Fields in a disused former laundry. Wringer & Mangle Spitalfields is spread over two floors offering dining upstairs, a lunchtime deli counter and cocktails […]
The Cinnamon Collection – which includes Vivek Singh’s “inspirational” nouvelle Indian The Cinnamon Club (set in the “classy” surrounds of Westminster Library) as well as the chef’s more casual ventures, Cinnamon Kitchen, Cinnamon Soho and Cinnamon Bazaar – has chosen Oxford for its first restaurant outside of London. Cinnamon Kitchen Oxford, opening this October in […]
Husband and wife chef duo Jake and Cassie White will swap London’s dining scene for the wilds of Cumbria with the launch of Pentonbridge Inn, a pub with rooms, located 17 miles north of Carlisle. The pair are hot-footing it from Marcus Wareing’s Marcus at The Berkeley in London – incidentally now run by another husband and […]
Harden’s has released the final shortlist for this year’s definitive London Restaurant Awards, which takes place on 11 September at The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 27-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers. This year 8,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the categories specified by Harden’s. The […]
JKS Restaurants – AKA the Sethi siblings (Gymkhana, Trishna and a driving financial force behind Bao) – will open a second outpost of their hugely popular Sri Lankan street food shack, Hoppers, in Marylebone on 12 September. The original Hoppers was one of the biggest hits of 2015 when it stormed into Soho with its “incredible” and […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer doesn’t so much review Marylebone newcomer Fancy Crab as eviscerate it… “Fancy Crab isn’t good. It’s a terrible waste of their money and our money and everybody’s time. “The restaurant’s shtick is the enormous red king crabs, fished from the cold waters of the North Pacific around Alaska, which can […]
With the long weekend looming, and many Londoners (and out-of-towners) heading to the Notting Hill Carnival, we thought we’d round up the area’s top cheap eats. Granted when one sets foot in the rarified air of gated gardens and dazzling white terraces the term ‘cheap’ takes on a different meaning. Nevertheless we have ventured to […]
