Today (26 August) saw the unveiling of the Waitrose Good Food Guide’s top 50 UK restaurants with Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in Cartmel taking pole position for the second year. So far, so good. We wouldn’t begrudge Mr Rogan the top spot, he was within a hair’s breadth of topping our survey last year and – without […]
Wine, dine and then recline. It’s a perfect combination. After all, how often have each of us wished we weren’t facing a car ride or train journey home after a great meal? But ‘restaurants-with-rooms’ are more than just convenient, they are destinations. A way to get out of the city or to celebrate an occasion […]
Oh sure, we all read Fay Maschler’s latest love song to Nuno Mendes’s Taberna do Mercado or Marina O’Laughlin’s obliteration of her fallen idol Marco Pierre White at Wheelers of St James’s Rib Room, but here at Harden’s we care more about what ordinary diners think. To the end we’ve chosen our top five user reviews of […]
First the bad news – Cartmel’s estimable foodie mecca L’Enclume will close for one week on 7 December for a few quick improvements and staff hols (well, they deserve it don’t they?). But here’s the good news: During that week the focus will shift to Rogan & Co (also situated in the Cumbrian town of […]
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 […]
Simon Rogan – the chef whose first London venture (Fera at Claridges) rocketed straight into our top 100 restaurants in the UK for 2014 – is to open two new restaurants this year. Speaking at the Hospitality Show in Birmingham the restaurateur behind the acclaimed L’Enclume in Cartmel and The French at Manchester’s Midland Hotel said he was […]
The Editors’ review of Ham Yard The food is the usual Firmdale Hotel formula, but the setting is really something special. Beast has Grace Dent roaring and raving “Look away now if London decadence leaves you boggle-eyed”, warns ES’s critic. Get a free glass of bubbly at the new Hawksmoor The Knightsbridge outpost […]
Wine, dine and then recline. It’s a perfect combination. After all, how often have each of us wished we weren’t facing a car ride or train journey home after a great meal? But ‘restaurants-with-rooms’ are more than just convenient, they are destinations. A way to get out of the city or to celebrate an occasion […]
How odd. You might think that Claridge’s – foreign royalty’s London home-from-home – would be the very last place you’d find P R O G R E S S. But we think history may well record that their latest dining room, Fera, launched last week, was ‘revolutionary’. Why? First, we need to […]
