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This weekend (31 March) Tom Sellers closes his “modernist culinary temple” Restaurant Story ahead of an extensive month- long interior renovation, the first since its launch in 2013. Re-opening on 8 May, the redesign will not only transform the look and feel of the restaurant, but will coincide with a new menu concept and a […]
Pop-up fodder takes over the Great Guns Social kitchen in Southwark on 20 March with ‘fine dining gone wild’. Their latest offering celebrates local, wild and seasonal ingredients by foraging for their produce and working with local suppliers to create dishes sourced from the surrounding area. Former Fera at Claridge’s chefs, Michael Thompson and Ollie Downey […]
London’s favourite Portuguese chef Nuno Mendes (Taberna do Mercado and once upon a time Viajante) has been talking about launching a fine dining supper club for some time (a revival of his Loft Project of sorts). Now it seems the dream has finally come to fruition with the arrival of a 14-seater, tasting menu-only dining […]
Celebrate the summer season with the FT Weekend Laurent-Perrier Rosé Summer Menu at Vivek Singh’s “seriously brilliant” Cinnamon Club, in association with Taste of London 2016. Enjoy three courses and a glass of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut NV Champagne in this impressive dining space (now even more handsome thanks to last year’s £1m refurb) at £50 per person. Housed […]
What could be better on a sunny summer’s evening than a trip to Taplow’s impossibly grand Thames-view palazzo, Cliveden House. This month readers can enjoy chef André Garrett’s three course Market Menu, with a glass of champagne, for £55 pp. Over the past couple of years, Garrett has been credited with transforming the cuisine at […]
Home delivery used to consist of a few local pizza parlours and maybe Domino’s if you had one near-by. Then along came Just Eat and changed all that, creating a one stop shop for a plethora of local take-aways. After that Deliveroo and their ilk stepped things up again by offering deliveries direct from restaurants. […]
1701 was the first of its kind in London – a fine dining Kosher restaurant. But, just two years on, the dining spot is to close as it moves from its “lovely and historic” space next to the UK’s oldest synagogue Bevis Marks in the capital’s City. The owners told the Jewish Chronicle that the site […]
Most 78-year-olds are more likely to visit a branch while collecting their pensions, but Albert Roux intends to turn an Essex Post Office into a fine dining restaurant. The French-born chef and restaurateur (father of Michel Roux Jr) has submitted plans to transform Brentwood’s old Post Office into a high-end eating establishment. Roux praised the […]
