Restaurant and bar group Searcys is to open a new Italian restaurant at One New Change in the heart London’s Square Mile. There will be a soft launch from 4 May ahead of the official opening on 9 May. Searcys One New Change is dedicated to traditional pasta and meatball dishes, as well as serving a […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
Yet another street food trader puts down permanent roots as purveyor of Eastern-influenced, charcoal grilled meats and fish, Walter and Monty, launches a standalone restaurant in the City. The 30-cover venue opens its doors next month with free food at lunchtime on 14 & 15 April. There will be no bookings for the soft launch so […]
Humble Grape, the wine bar and shop from James Dawson is to open a second site in May. Following the success of the Battersea opening last year, Humble Grape will launch a larger venue in St Bride’s Passage, just off Fleet Street. The site – tucked away down a cobbled street and hidden in the vaults […]
Soho’s “OTT” but undeniably fun Bob Bob Ricard – where diners “love the ‘press for champagne’ button on every table!” – is to get a swanky new City sibling. The restaurant (working title Bob Bob Exchange) is expected to open in the Leadenhall Building, otherwise known as The Cheesegrater, in April 2017. Its 180-cover dining room will feature booth […]
Anthony Demetre of Soho’s Arbutus has teamed up with Searcys once again (they successfully launched Urban Coterie at the Montcalm Hotel in Shoreditch last year). This time Demetre and Searcys have jazzed up the food offering at the Barbican Centre with a new Italian serving charcuterie alongside pasta dishes and suckling pig. Osteria, launched on 11 February 2016 […]
Last week The Times’s Giles Coren was drooling over his keyboard at the very thought of another meal at Brad McDonald’s new Deep South-influenced Soho haunt Shotgun. This week his colleague AA Gill over at the Sunday Times takes said shotgun and fires both barrels at the place in his Table Talk column… “The first […]
The newest arrival to the K10 restaurant group, situated within the Minster Court near London’s Fenchurch St Station, vaunts the country’s longest sushi train. At 50 metres long, the kaiten belt carries over 300 plates around the conveyor in seven minutes. As well as a 90-cover dining room with conveyor-side seating, K10’s latest outpost has a […]
Spice Cream Parlour launches today (9 June) in “elegant” City Indian Cinnamon Kitchen’s bar Anise – serving frozen cocktails, boozy shakes, decadent ice cream sandwiches and fizzy kulfi pops. This Indian twist on an ice cream parlour will pop-up on the restaurant’s al-fresco terrace (in Devonshire Square) until the end of July. Choose from a […]
Chefs Mark Jankel and Jun Tanaka have chosen a kiosk in the City’s new Broadgate Circle development for their first permanent site – the long-time home of their Silver Airstream. Always a top tip for “good-quality take-away” among worker bees, Street Kitchen will open on 15 June. Like the van, the permanent restaurant will serve up […]
