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After his return to London in October with the launch of Aulis – an eight-seater, £250 pp chef’s table in a secret Soho location – Simon Rogan has announced that his 2011-3013 pop-up Roganic will reappear as a permanent fixture in Marylebone next year. Roganic takes up residence in Blandford Street on the former site of L’Autre […]
Authentic Cantonese/dim sum chain Duddell’s (with 10 sites across Hong Kong) opened its first UK branch, in St Thomas Church in London Bridge, this week. It is the first time the celebrated restaurant has opened outside of HK, where the original was founded in 2013. Set in the historic St Thomas Church, Duddell’s London showcases authentic Cantonese […]
Giles Coren in the Times revisits Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (the original on Royal Hospital Road) and finds the three Michelin star level service to be just a bit much… “Smartly redone a couple of years ago in the art deco style, it must look great when empty, but it was so rammed with waiters that I […]
Restaurateur Linda Lee (Koba, On The Bab) is opening a new Korean venture on a two-floor Soho site; with dine-in, takeaway and retail sections, it will be based on the table-and-market concept found in Seoul, South Korea. Mee Market will open in Archer Street on Monday 4 December. After running several restaurants in Seoul, Linda Lee moved to […]
Florentine, a new all-day dining restaurant and cocktail bar opposite Lambeth North tube station, has launched London’s biggest beef burger. Not for the faint-hearted, the Herculean Burger feeds 4-6 people, weighs 2kg, and is priced at £55. Created by head chef Ryan Matheson, the patty is made from 1kg of 100 per cent British beef from Derby […]
The Corinthia Hotel London, just off Trafalgar Square, has made two key senior appointments within the hotel’s food & beverage department. Benjamin Hofer joins Corinthia (which includes the “sumptuous” Massimo and “beautifully appointed” Northall restaurants) as Director of Food & Beverage. His background spans both five star hotels and collaborations with top chefs – including Hotel Café […]
Street food traders Garrett and Emer FitzGerald launch their first permanent restaurant at the end of November on the former site of Santo Remedio in Rivington Street, Shoreditch, serving premium fried chicken sandwiches to dine-in and takeaway. To celebrate the arrival of Butchies on 27 November 500 free fried chicken sandwiches are available for the […]
Harden’s hosted a sell-out dinner with acclaimed chef Jun Tanaka at his first solo restaurant The Ninth in Fitzrovia on 16 November. The five-course banquet was served in the stunning private dining room showcasing Tanaka’s (now Michelin-starred) Mediterranean-influenced sharing dishes. The evening started at 7.30 pm with a Champagne Canard-Duchêne, Cuvée Léonie Brut reception hosted by the chef-patron […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer reviews The Kitchen, Inverness (after a bad meal at Boath House, Nairn)… BOATH HOUSE: “I’ve had more fun at the chiropodist, getting my corns removed. I left the Boath House with my will sapped. It is a brilliant opportunity wasted. “A narrow, gummy strip of treacle-cured salmon arrives, with cubes of bitter, […]
The chef’s behind Stokey’s mega popular brunch spot The Good Egg (just check out that weekend perma-queue!) bring their unique mix of Middle Eastern cooking and spicing with British ingredients to Soho’s Kingly Court this December. The follow-up draws on the distinctive Jewish café-culture of Montreal and Tel-Aviv’s vibrant street-food scene for an all-day restaurant, […]
