Popular Mexican chain Benito’s Hat has opened a Leadenhall Street outpost to cater for the City crowd. The latest branch features electronic ordering to (hopefully) reduce queues during the lunch hour rush. Punters can order food via an app and collect in-house or have it delivered to their office. Like its other five London establishments, Benito’s Hat’s […]
Foxcroft & Ginger, Soho, launches its second outpost, in Whitechapel, today (3 April). The new 70-cover restaurant occupies the former site of Wickham’s department store in Mile End Road, which – as all readers will doubtless know – was once regarded as the ‘Harrod’s of the East’. Foxcroft & Ginger’s new operation includes a 24-hour […]
Favoured Left Bank haunt of stars like Depardieu and Deneuve, La Cigale Récamier is opening a Knightsbridge offshoot later this month, to be called Les Soufflés. The new restaurant, in Beauchamp Place, will serve up … well you can guess. It’s La Cigale Récamier’s speciality. Estelle Idoux, daughter of Gérard Idoux who founded La Cigale Récamier, […]
We’re seeing something… it’s a vision of bearded and bespectacled hipsters flocking in their droves in search of foodie nirvana. It can only mean one thing – Psychic Burger has opened a second London location. The founders are bringing their “down and dirty, ‘Rock an’ Drool’ approach” to cooking to the Old Queen’s Head in […]
