Pip Lacey (pictured above with with business partner Gordy McIntyre) is to open a spinoff from her debut restaurant Hicce in an Islington pub. The Hicce Hart launches next month in premises formerly occupied by Day & Night on the Penton Street corner of Chapel Market. Lacey, who trained under Angela Hartnett and became head […]
Prawn on the Lawn in Islington is to launch a 30-cover cocktail and oyster bar called Sawyer & Gray Lates. The seafood restaurant, which has a sister site in Padstow, Cornwall, will transform its day-time cafe, which sits next to its dining room proper, into a candlelit affair from 6pm Thursday to Saturday. The additional […]
A new Islington restaurant on Upper Street will be entirely dedicated to sausages. X-Upper will “serve Europe’s finest gourmet sausages”, all of which will, apparently, be “curated by top chefs”. “Sausage is the new burger,” the PR spiel continues. If so, will X-Upper become the new MEATliquor? The restaurant, which is set to open in […]
London offers plenty of opportunity for al-fresco dining but when the good weather hits those tables fill up fast. To stand an outside chance of snagging a table in the sun this summer, take a look at some of the new terraces that have opened in the capital of late… If you want to see […]
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. […]
LONDON Nautilus NW6 £41 “The matzo meal batter is so light and the fish always so über fresh” that it’s inevitably a delight to visit this “truly excellent” – if “basic and functional” – West Hampstead chippy. Golden Hind W1 £26 “A joy for lovers of fish ’n’ chips” – this “very basic” Marylebone institution’s […]
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. […]
Celebrated restaurateurs (and, as of 2014, hoteliers too) Chris Corbin and Jeremy King opened their first restaurant outside of central London, in Islington, this week (14 December). The Wolseley-et-al duo, who launched Fischer’s in Marylebone and The Beaumont hotel with its much-lauded Colony Grill Room last year, have taken over the site of Browns (a very grand […]
Bringing a bit of ’80s kitsch to Islington – as well as a taste of mainland China – is a new all-day dining room, Chinese Laundry. Designed to look like an average Chinese home (from the era of leg-warmers and Walkmans), the restaurant serves traditional cuisine and an exotic cocktail list with white spirits (baijiu). On the […]
Shoreditch will get just a little bit hipper this summer as new ‘Nordic Smokehouse’ restaurant and bar, Rök, opens on Curtain Road in August. Taking over the site of an old east London café, the owners have turned the space into a 40-cover restaurant and bar open for lunch, dinner and late night drinks with a downstairs […]
