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Looking for the perfect place to hold a private Christmas dinner party, work event or family get-together this festive season? Look no further. We’ve rounded up 20 of London’s best private dining rooms to suit all tastes and budgets… Barrafina WC2 Menus from £40 pp “The wait can sometimes be twice the time spent at the […]
Good news for oenophiles. London’s private club dedicated to wine – which filled its membership quota before it even opened in 2015 – is once again taking new members after a recent expansion. 67 Pall Mall opened a new floor of their Sir Edwin Lutyens’ building in St James’s, on 31 October. Born from a passion for […]
Mayfair’s “classy” (if sometimes “dull”) gastronomic temple, The Square, will re-open its doors on 20 November after a major refurbishment of its kitchen and dining room. Launched by Phil Howard and Nigel Platts-Martin back in 1991, the restaurant was sold to the MARC group (Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation) last year and has since undergone a redesign […]
From the folks behind Marylebone’s Yosma comes a new Chinatown restaurant serving a mixture of Turkish and Greek dishes. Hovarda, a new Aegean-inspired bar and restaurant, will open on Rupert Street on Friday 17 November. The bar will serve cocktails and wines, as well as a signature Horvada (Yeni Raki, cinnamon, yoghurt, brown sugar, Turkish honey, cardamom […]
Restaurant openings in east and south London flourished in the last 12 months, according to the latest, 27th edition of Harden’s London Restaurants published on 9 November. After central London, east London remains the capital’s prime area for restaurant openings, although almost as popular was south London this year (east had 39 debuts vs south’s […]
Growth rate of independent London restaurant openings softens as baby ‘roll-outs’ gain ground • Marianne Lumb’s Marianne and The Araki win big in Harden’s survey • Ratings slip for Heston’s Dinner and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay • East London still where the action is… but South is catching up! The giddy pace of independent London restaurant […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer reviewed Fishers in the City, Edinburgh “Fishers in the City could be a truly terrific fish restaurant, if it weren’t for the small things that aren’t terrific. All the essentials are here: there are oysters, left unmolested, or grilled with a bone-marrow crust… soup is a cream-ballasted chowder, made with salmon and smoked […]
This year marks the 20th year of StreetSmart, a campaign raising funds for homeless charities through restaurants nationally every November and December. The charity has raised over £8.2 million across two decades, through the simple idea of adding a voluntary £1 to diners’ bills throughout the festive months. StreetSmart raised a staggering £587,000 in 2016 and in this […]
Luca Longobardi and Chris Denney (pictured), co-founders of Notting-Hill’s blisteringly successful and über trendy 108 Garage, launched their second venture – Southam Street – on the former site of Victorian boozer West Thirty Six (RIP). Southam Street occupies a sprawling building in Golborne Road, on the fringes of Notting Hill, covering three storeys with a […]
We already know that The Sunday Times’s Marina O’Loughlin isn’t the biggest fan of the great British pub (read her Eater article here). So what will she make of the food at Spoons’ newest outpost in Ramsgate? We would guess not much… “’Fried buttermilk chicken burger’ (598 calories) delivers a flat, damp sandwich secured with a wooden […]
