The Sunday Times’s AA Gill revisits Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy in its new form as Pharmacy 2 in Vauxhall and finds things have changed considerably since the Notting Hill original launched in 1998, when the opening was ‘like a red-carpet premiere, a mob of paparazzi and rubberneckers, double-parked limos, teeth and tits’. “I was surprised at […]
The Ivy WC2 Menus from £54 pp Richard Caring’s famous Theatreland idol – now the original of a fast expanding brand – emerged from a massive overhaul too late to be rated (just before the survey closed). Too often a let down in recent years, a handful of first-days reports say its “beautiful refurb” is “superb in every detail” […]
Clive Watson – of Village London – will open his first solo venture; an informal take on a grand European brasserie which encourages ‘coffee drinkers and laptop users’ (read aspiring writers) in February. Blixen features a ground floor dining room with workspace and plenty of plug sockets, an open kitchen and garden, plus a lower ground floor […]
