Many of our reporters feel that it’s time for “a complete overhaul” at old Theatreland favourite, The Ivy. However that once-idolised restaurant’s name still carries sufficient cachet for Caprice Holdings to aim to expand the brand across London. Late last year saw the launch of The Ivy Market Grill, a stone’s throw from the original in Covent Garden, […]
Mark Sargeant (of Folkestone’s Rocksalt and London’s Plum + Spilt Milk fame) has been brought in to revamp the menu at Trafalgar Square’s Strand Dining Rooms. The all-day restaurant, launched by restaurateur Mark Harris last year, received some pretty scathing reviews from the likes of Giles Coren “the chicken wasn’t fit to bait a mousetrap” and […]
Open House, the new sister company to Cubitt House, will open its first restaurant – Percy & Founders – on 2 April. The new all-day dining spot, spearheaded by ex Murano head chef Diego Cardoso, launches in Fitzrovia’s Fitzroy Place development. Early birds can get 50% off food from Thursday 26 March to Wednesday 1 April 2015 […]
Greek restaurant Opso, which opened in Marylebone last year, has announced a Greek-only wine list – featuring what they say is the most comprehensive list of indigenous wines available in London. Despite having the oldest winemaking history in the world, Greece isn’t one of the countries wine buffs think of when they think ‘old world wines’. […]
Drake & Morgan is set to launch its eighth site, The Refinery, in Fitzrovia this week. Officially opening on 13 March in Regent’s Place, the latest venue is a return to the name of Drake & Morgan’s first opening on Bankside. An all-day dining affair The Refinery includes a 108-cover restaurant, bar, deli and 56-seater outdoor terrace. […]
Yet another gourmet burger brand is pitching up in the capital, arriving in Fitzrovia’s Percy Street straight from Paris on 10 March. With the other existing branches of Big Fernand being in Lille and Lyons, London must have seemed an obvious next step. To celebrate the launch the restaurant will hand out 100 free hamburgés daily to the most […]
Street food van Bleecker Street Burger – considered by many meat aficionados to be London’s top burger bar – has launched its first permanent site in Old Spitalfields Market. The team behind the food truck opened the restaurant today (Thursday 26 February), giving away 400 limited edition t-shirts to the first customers. Try their double aged beef […]
Branching out further from its “crowded” but “happy” Borough Market original, Wright Brothers is set to open its fourth London restaurant in June. The seafood specialist, known among our reporters for its “oysters zinging with the taste of the sea”, has snapped up the former site of La Bouchée on South Ken’s Old Brompton Road. La Bouchée may […]
News reaches us that the one-time enfant terrible of British cooking, Marco Pierre White, is to reanimate his Wheeler’s brand in London by moving into the City’s Threadneedles Hotel in March. We wouldn’t like to speculate as to why the face of Knorr stock cubes is choosing to shack up with yet another hotel group […]
Chelsea’s oldest pub, The Cross Keys, will reopen on 5 March following an extensive refurbishment under new owners, DM Group. Publicans Mark Dyer and Eamonn Manson (the duo behind Fulham pubs The Sands End and The Brown Cow) plan to return the iconic 80 cover boozer to its former glory. Sitting between King’s Road and Cheyne Walk, […]
