Fitzrovia cocktail bar The Lucky Pig will launch its second venture in Fulham on 16 May. The new outpost will be more than just a drinking den, however, with chef Michael Mannion heading up the kitchen of its all-day restaurant. Mannion worked at such illustrious establishments as Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons and Claridge’s before tackling […]
Mark Sargeant (of Folkestone’s Rocksalt and London’s Plum + Spilt Milk fame) has been brought in to revamp the menu at Trafalgar Square’s Strand Dining Rooms. The all-day restaurant, launched by restaurateur Mark Harris last year, received some pretty scathing reviews from the likes of Giles Coren “the chicken wasn’t fit to bait a mousetrap” and […]
Simon Rogan, the golden boy of British fine dining, will not renew his agreement with Robinson Brewery to run the The Pig & Whistle pub in Cartmel, Cumbria. The chef – who launched Fera at Claridge’s last year (to universal praise in our survey), on top of his already stellar northern outposts The French in […]
Sacre bleu! It’s been announced that an American chef is to head up one of London’s more popular Gallic bistros. David Fogelman has taken the reins at Bruno’s Loubet’s eponymous establishment at the Zetter Townhouse hotel in Clerkenwell. Fogelman, however, has been semi-nautralised, having worked in London kitchens since 2009, cutting his teeth at restaurants like Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s and Fergus Henderson’s […]
The Editors’ review of Marcus We check out The Berkeley’s new look ‘casual’ dining room. Not all that casual, obviously. Fay Maschler isn’t wild about Fera at Claridge’s The Evening Standard critic finds the bill at Simon Rogan’s new restaurant is a little too rich for her tastes. Typing Room opens at the […]
With more buzz than a nest of angry hornets, it was proclaimed in February that Lee Westcott (formerly of the unstoppable Jason Atherton empire) would step in to replace Nuno Mendes’ Viajante at the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green. And finally the much-heralded restaurant, Typing Room, opens today (16 May). The 40-cover dining room […]
There’s something in the air in London at the moment. Is it spring? An unreasonably high pollen count? Saharan sand? Something certainly seems to have whipped up a frenzy of restaurant activity, with today (6 May) alone seeing the official opening of Fera at Claridge’s (though it seems they won’t really be fully open ’til Thursday), Beast, Noodle House, TING […]
The Editors’ review of One Kensington Tamarind group’s latest offering is already firing on all cylinders. Simon Rogan goes wild at Claridge’s The speculation is over, Rogan’s restaurant will be called Fera (wild in Latin). The rise of ‘food porn’ Chefs rail against the fashion for photographing food. Ramsay returns to his […]
