As the country mourns Queen Elizabeth II this week, a select group of restaurants she visited are no doubt reviewing their own royal memories. For security reasons as well as to preserve the mystique of royalty, Her Majesty was a very infrequent diner in restaurants – and when she did so, it was usually in a […]
Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, the chef and manager team best known for New York’s three Michelin-star Eleven Madison Park, have ended their working relationship. This might ring alarm bells in anyone looking forward to Claridge’s new restaurant, Davies and Brook, which Humm and Guidara were set to open. Don’t worry – it will still […]
Chef Daniel Humm is opening his first London restaurant. And yes, he’s doing so at Claridge’s. The rumours, which we reported at the beginning of the month, are, to no-one’s great surprise, true after all. Humm, together with restaurateur Will Guidara, will launch Davies and Brook in summer 2019. The Mayfair haunt will replace Fera, which […]
Fera at Claridge’s will close at the end of the year, Harden’s can confirm. Final service with take place on New Year’s Eve. Most recently, the Michelin-starred restaurant has been overseen by head chef Matt Starling, who took over from Simon Rogan in 2017. Rogan, of Roganic and L’Enclume fame, signed a ten-year deal in 2014, but […]
After his return to London in October with the launch of Aulis – an eight-seater, £250 pp chef’s table in a secret Soho location – Simon Rogan has announced that his 2011-3013 pop-up Roganic will reappear as a permanent fixture in Marylebone next year. Roganic takes up residence in Blandford Street on the former site of L’Autre […]
Yes, you read that right – this restaurant really is called Flavour Bastard. So what’s in a name? Well, it seems that chef-patron Pratap Chahal is keen to use a fusion of flavours – gleaned from his time at Ramsay’s Claridge’s, Chez Bruce, Cinnamon Club and Galvin Bistrot – to create an international menu with […]
Fera at Claridge’s chef Dan Cox is swapping the Big Smoke for something a little bit more down to earth – an organic farm in Cornwall. The former executive chef of Simon Rogan’s research kitchen Aulis announced his plans to open a restaurant at Crocadon Farm in St Mellion via Instagram this week. “The day […]
Chef Simon Rogan has created special “experimental and instinctive” lunch and dinner menus to be paired with Dom Pérignon vintage champagnes next month at Claridges, where his restaurant Fera is hailed for its “phenomenal” food by the Harden’s Survey. He says the menus will include “cylindra beetroot, roe deer, blackcurrant and hemp or meadowsweet cake, cherries, pine and sheep’s yoghurt. […]
Palm Court, The Ritz W1 From £60 pp Afternoon Tea is served daily at 11.30 am, 1.30 pm, 3.30 pm, 5.30 pm, and 7.30 pm. Loved by some (“the afternoon tea is unparalleled!”), but this famous and elegant chamber is to many disappointing (“dry, mechanically-cut sandwiches with fillings I had not seen since a wartime […]
The 200 Club @ The Factory on Tanner Street, Bermondsey 3-4 September Do you love the variety and surprise of a lengthy tasting menu, or loathe the endless parade of minuscule portions? If the former you’ll be salivating at the prospect of a new partnership between ‘culinary deviants’ Bompass & Parr and Bespoke Offers – a […]
