Throughout December and January Harden’s readers can treat themselves to a free mezze plate at Fitzrovia’s new Levantine restaurant, Ceru. Just a stone’s throw from Oxford Street on Rathbone Place, it is a perfectly located spot for a pick me up, a bite of lunch or dinner with friends during those stressful Christmas and New Year shopping […]
London’s love affair with all things Peruvian (perhaps it is Paddington fever?) continues as the people behind Bravas announce plans to open a second St Katherine Docks restaurant – this time a Japanese/Peruvian fusion place. Bal Thind and Victor Garvey (who launched their Spanish tapas joint Bravas earlier this year) will open Amaru on 5 […]
Trafalgar Square’s grand hotel brasserie, The Balcon at the Sofitel St James, has got something rather unusual on the menu. We all know it’s is just the job for a business lunch or pre theatre bite, but how about for a new kind of dessert bar? The hotel has launched what they are calling a Baba […]
The Joint – the pop-up-turned-permanent restaurant famed for its pulled pork burger – has opened a second site. The US-inspired BBQ spot has taken over the Marylebone premises in New Cavendish Street which were previously home to short-lived burger bar SLABS. It appears that this high-end burger restaurant, poorly reviewed by many including the Standard, just wasn’t doing […]
From today (8 December) “memorable” City spot, Sushisamba, will join the ranks of a select few London restaurants serving genuine Kobe beef. Through an exclusive contract with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan and the Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association, chef Claudio Cardoso will now serve this sought after (and expensive) […]
Daniel Doherty, the chef behind atmospheric City spot Duck & Waffle, has launched the restaurant’s first cookbook – and you could be in with a chance of winning a signed copy. Impress your family and friends this Christmas with stunning recipes, including the restaurant’s signature eponymous dish. The menu is comfort food with a bold […]
Looking for the best places to celebrate the New Year in style, watch the fireworks display or perhaps just enjoy a fun night out with friends that doesn’t cost the earth? Look no further, our New Year’s Eve roundup has something for everyone… Fera at Claridge’s W1 £975 per person Goodness it isn’t […]
The duo behind some of London’s most popular Spanish restaurants – Copita in Soho as well as Fitzrovia’s Barrica and Drakes Tabanco – are to open an east London outpost. Tim Luther and Nigel Howell will launch Copita del Mercado in Wentworth Road, just by Petticoat Lane Market, on 8 December. Fans of the restaurateurs’ […]
Korean fast food concept, Bibigo Bar and Dining, will open its second London outpost in Islington on the site of Alan Yau’s former Naamyaa Café. The restaurateur’s informal Thai-style café – intended as the prototype of a chain – unexpectedly closed in January, less than two years after it opened. In January the St John […]
The brothers behind The Shed, a delightfully ramshackle farm-to-table restaurant in Notting Hill, have launched their first cookbook – and you could be in with a chance of winning a signed copy. Impress your family and friends this Christmas with stunning seasonal recipes from Oliver, Richard and Gregory Gladwin’s The Shed: The Cookbook. The book […]