Just can’t wait for the opening of Phil Howard’s new restaurant, Elystan Street in Chelsea, at the end of this month? Well, you can have a sneak pre-taste (and at a significantly lower price) next Saturday, September 17, at Barnes Food Fair. Howard founded Mayfair thoroughbred The Square and ran its “brilliantly focused” (Harden’s Survey) kitchen for […]
Quo Vadis, the Soho veteran rated as “particularly charming” by the Harden’s Survey, reopens on Monday after a six-week nip and tuck which will allow its hip young stablemate Barrafina to bunk up in the same address in Dean Street when its lease in nearby Frith Street comes to an end in November. The re-shuffle of Sam and Eddie […]
Upmarket chicken shacks are taking London by storm, with posh single-dish poultry parlours proliferating across the city. The latest to graduate from market stall to permanent site is Butchies, a buttermilk-fried chicken sandwich concept that opens in Camden this month (September 21) after two successful years of Saturdays at Hackney’s Broadway Market. A day earlier, Chick’n’Sours, opens a […]
Cabotte, a wine-led restaurant celebrating the produce of Burgundy, opens in Gresham Street, in the heart of the City, next Thursday (September 15). It will offer a list of 500 Burgundies and another 100 wines, paired with classic dishes from the region including beef cheek Bourguignon, oeuf meurette and tarte tatin. It’s the brainchild of star sommeliers Xavier […]
⦿ The Observer’s Jay Rayner, perhaps enjoying an August Bank Holiday at the seaside, moseyed happily into Hantverk & Found in Margate, “a tiny cupboard of a fish restaurant, half tiled in the sea green of a Victorian public convenience”. “There are 10 seats up front, plus a few in the garden, and a couple of people in the kitchen knocking out […]
Taste London’s best Sunday Roast £55 pp Voted the best place in the capital to get a juicy slice of beef on the bone, according to our 2015 survey, The Rib Room is “a real treat in every respect”. This luxurious, well-spaced Belgravia dining room is firing on all cylinders after its revamp last year; as […]
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This week there’s been quite the hubbub about a new Channel 4 documentary series Tricks of the Restaurant Trade that claims to be ‘lifting the lid’ on restaurant industry secrets. The programme, which aired on Tuesday 19 January, discussed how many UK chains (like PizzaExpress, Leon and Frankie & Benny’s) use pre-prepared food from centralised kitchens and […]
London’s top 20 private dining rooms Hi Karen Whether you’re planning a Christmas family get-together, business lunch or maybe even an intimate wedding, London has a staggering number of fabulous private dining rooms to choose from. We’ve rounded-up what we consider to be 20 of the best private rooms the city’s restaurants have to offer. […]
In what is turning into a real life game of Monopoly, one where your starting capital needs to be oligarch billions rather than £200 for passing Go, Mayfair’s desirable restaurant sites are being snapped up by Russia’s elite. The string of Russian-backed restaurants now inhabiting the priciest heart of W1 include Novikov, Goodman, Rextail, Burger/Lobster and, most […]
