Sexy Fish, Richard Caring’s ultra-glitzy seafood venue in Mayfair, is to spawn an offshoot in Manchester this autumn – appropriately, perhaps, in a glass-fronted former Armani shop on Deansgate in Spinningfields. The venture’s website has announced: “With our high-end glamour, surrealist décor, and opulent culinary majesty inspired by the oceans of Asia, Sexy Fish will also […]
AA Gill heads out to The Woodford in search of Ben Murphy’s cuisine (a young chef of just 25 who trained under Pierre Koffmann) and finds that The Only Way is Essex is in fact a real way of life and not, as the Sunday Times’s columnist previously thought, simply a ratings-courting fiction. Incidentally he loves […]
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 […]
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. […]
Artist Damien Hirst has revived his Notting Hill venture Pharmacy (long RIP) as Pharmacy 2 at his gallery in Vauxhall. The day-time canteen and evening restaurant at Newport Street Gallery, opened in collaboration with Hirst’s long-time mate and supporter Mark Hix (The Tramshed, Hix Oyster & Chop House etc) on 23 February. The menu reflects […]
Two of the country’s biggest champions of British cuisine are teaming up to host a special one off dinner at the Tramshed in Shoreditch. Tom Kerridge, the chef behind what is perhaps the UK’s most lauded gastropub, The Hand & Flowers, will join restaurateur Mark Hix for a Great British Dinner on 11 February from […]
A former Mark Hix protégé heads up this Clerkenwell newcomer, and it shows. Modern art prints, murals and neon signage from the likes of Damien Hirst, Chris Bracy and Kid Acne adorn the walls of Ask For Janice, an all-day dining affair in Long Lane. Upstairs is the coffee bar and restaurant, while downstairs is […]
