A new café/bar/restaurant offering ‘eclectic modern European cuisine with an Asian twist’ has just opened in Shoreditch. Penkul & Banks, serving tapas and sharing plates (what else?), takes its name from two furniture craftsmen whose Victorian workshops were sited at 77 Curtain Road. Of course more recently the site was home to a manly-menued place […]
Not one but two America’s top exports – Martinis and burgers – are to headline the menu at a new Mayfair diner. Chucs Bar & Grill, in Dover Street, will stand next to (English) entrepreneur Charles Finch’s Chucs Dive & Mountain Shop. The intimate 25-seater restaurant will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, serving up burgers, salads, […]
A few lucky burger lovers have the chance to grab a freebie at the newly opened Burger Craft, at the White Ferry pub in Pimlico. In celebration of its launch, the restaurant is giving away 350 of their signature patty and bun, the Juicy Bastard, this week 7-13 July. The first 50 customers to walk […]
This must be a first! A consultancy which offers advice on sustainability to the food and drink industry – T.E.D (Think.Eat.Drink) – has opened its own restaurant. Inevitably, it will focus on ethically sourced British produce served in “an environmentally friendly setting”. Now open in King’s Cross, T.E.D is housed over two floors, using sustainably-sourced fixtures and fittings […]
Now that the Harden’s survey is over for another year, why not take a moment to discover our diary function on your mobile app or online? The diary function allows you to record restaurant reviews throughout the year, so you won’t have to scratch your head trying to remember how much you enjoyed a particular meal when the […]
What better way to while away the long summer nights, or the (hopefully) scorching summer days, than by enjoying a meal outside? Now that the fine weather is here and holidays are imminent, there’s plenty of opportunity for dining al fresco in London. We’ve rounded up the best gastropub gardens, riverside patios and rooftop terraces […]
French haute cuisine, the wellspring from which culinary magic seems to flow across the world, has been sidelined of late in favour of rusticity, simplicity and (let’s face it) dirty great burgers. But can the classics ever truly go out of style? Surely we all just need a gentle reminder of France’s culinary prowess? Well, […]
The Editors’ review of Pavilion It’s handy enough for a pricey shopping lunch, but not a destination restaurant. Grace Dent is in a Viennese whirl over Fischer’s The Evening Standard critic loves Corbin & King’s new Vienna-style café. Smith & Wollensky to open at Adelphi US steakhouse to open its first London outpost […]
NYC steakhouse Smith & Wollensky is to open its first non-US operation: in the Adelphi, just off the Strand. The massive – 300-cover – restaurant will occupy the ground floor of one of the capital’s most impressive ’30s office buildings, the upper floors of which overlook the Thames. The two level restaurant will cover 15,000 square […]
Huw Gott and Will Beckett opened the latest outpost of their ever-popular Hawksmoor restaurants in Knightsbridge today (3 July). The duo aren’t offering a soft launch period at their new venue (most likely because they’ve never had any problem getting derrières on seats) but anyone who books a table during July and August will get […]
