Here’s a smokin’ hot new addition to London’s Bankside – Porky’s BBQ spot, specialising in American-style smoked meats, opened its second site in Globe Walk on 6 June. The restaurant uses a traditional Memphis grill and Oklahoma smokers to slow-cook American barbecue dishes, such as dry-rubbed ribs and tips, smoked over hickory wood and served with Porky’s homemade […]
Yard Sale Pizza has just opened in Clapton. And from now until Sunday (8 June) they’ve pledged to giveaway 300 free pizzas from their eat-in and take-away restaurant on Lower Clapton Road. On the menu are sourdough-base pizzas topped with fresh raw tuna, anchovy and caper paste and rocket; or ‘The Holy Pepperoni’ – Cobble Lane pepperoni, Napoli […]
Chris Corbin and Jeremy King’s newest venture, Fischer’s, a Viennese café in Marylebone, is now open. The High Street site was once home to an ambitious Italian, Cotidie, and before that, Café Luc – both establishments that seemed to fail, in part, because they got their pricing wrong. So when the Wolseley-et-al duo acquired the […]
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 […]
Remember the days when all airports had to offer in the dining department was Burger King? Maybe a café serving sandwiches and what might be considered coffee, if you were lucky. Well now, in the steps of Gordon Ramsay, Mr Molecular Gastronomy himself, Heston Blumenthal, has launched an outpost at Heathrow Terminal 2. The Perfectionist’s […]
Parisian bistro, Les Gourmets des Ternes, has opened its first overseas outpost in Maida Vale. The establishment will be run by Maximilien Marie, grandson to Francis Marie who opened the celeb-friendly Paris original in 1962. The Formosa Street counterpart has exactly the same décor and menu with a focus on meat, sourced from the family […]
Pavilion, a new restaurant, champagne bar and deli owned by the founder of Foxton’s estate agency, Jon Hunt, opens today (30 May). The kitchen is overseen by Adam Simmonds (most recently of Danesfield House in Marlow) who previously worked under big hitters such as Raymond Blanc and Marco Pierre White, as well as putting in stints at The […]
Just in time for summer, this 14th century Thames-side Chiswick boozer reopens tomorrow (24 May), after an extensive refurb. The City Barge wants to be ‘the ultimate Thames-side pub’ – with a reclaimed Victorian bar, open fires, examples of rare bird taxidermy, private dining room and outside seating by the water, it may just pull […]
Soho House group launch a combined Chicken Shop and Dirty Burger in the East End today (21 May). There has been very little fanfare surrounding this venture, which opened in Mile End Road, Whitechapel. The restaurants’ first joint outpost, it was supposed to open in late April, but Soho House decided to postpone the launch […]
How times have changed, in the roaring ’20s, Selfridge’s rooftop was home to the all-girl gun club, now it will host the Q Grill pop-up. From this Friday (23 May) until the end of September, former Caprice head honcho Des McDonald’s new American BBQ concept will serve up an all-day dining experience far above the […]
