Go the traditional route Mac & Wild W1 Available 23-30 January 2016 £35 pp If it’s fine Highland produce you’re after this Burns’ Night, look no further than Fitzrovia’s new(ish) star, from the folks behind pop-up sensation The Wild Game Company. Mac & Wild will be celebrating the Scottish bard Robbie Burns for a whole […]
A further three dining destinations have been announced for Belgravia’s new restaurant hub Nova, which will garnish the restaurant wasteland around Victoria station with no fewer than 18 eateries next year. And we’re not talking about any old chains either. Barbecoa, Franco Manca and Daisy Green will join restaurants from Jason Atherton, D&D London and Will Ricker […]
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. Trending Restaurants 3-9 December […]
Not too many reviews in critics’ corner this week with Marina O’Laughlin’s and Fay Maschler’s columns absent from the Guardian and Evening Standard respectively. We shall have to muddle through without their pronouncements and hope for a return next week. Among the reviews that caught our eye were three for D&D London’s latest dining behemoth, […]
D&D London has finally opened its Mittel-European-style Grand Café and bar, the German Gymnasium – a long-anticipated renovation of a former Grade II listed gymnasium in King’s Cross. Designed by London-born architect Edward Gruning in 1865, this was the first purpose-built gym in England and hosted the inaugural indoor events of the 1866 Olympic Games. 150 years later, this […]
Allan Pickett, graduate of pretty much every French restaurant in London from the Galvin group to L’Escargot and D&D’s Orrery, has opened his first solo venture in Fitzrovia. Piquet, a 98-cover venue in Newman Street, serves classic Gallic cuisine with a modern twist using British ingredients. Pickett is backed by Bodean’s founder André Blais. On the menu: Roast […]
It seems as though Belgravia will soon be rivalling the City when it comes to new restaurant development.Hot on the heels of Broadgate Circle’s 11 extra eateries comes Nova which will garnish the restaurant wasteland around Victoria station with 18 dining spots in 2016. And we’re not talking about any old chains either. Among the […]
D&D London’s Le Pont de la Tour may have “sensational” Tower Bridge views but our reporters noted a lack of passion food-wise in last year’s survey. Perhaps a new partnership is just the (ahem) caffeine injection the restaurant needs? The South Bank icon has teamed up with ethical coffee brand CRU Kafe to introduce a range […]
Two very different restaurants, 700 miles apart, were named joint winners of the Sustainable Restaurant of the Year award yesterday (23 February) in London. Daylesford Organic, which operates three organic cafés in the Cotswolds and London, and The Captain’s Galley (Britain’s most northerly mainland restaurant) received their awards from Raymond Blanc, president of the Sustainable Restaurant […]
D&D London have announced a bumper Christmas with record revenues across the restaurant group, especially at new-look venues like Quaglino’s and Avenue. It also seems as though diners were in the mood to celebrate over this holiday season with a 15 per cent annual increase in champagne sales at the group’s restaurant. Overall revenues at […]
