French artisan bakery and patisserie, PAUL, is continuing the festive celebrations into January with a FREE giveaway at Le Restaurant de PAUL Covent Garden and Tower 42, on Wednesday 6 January to celebrate the day of Epiphany. Those dining as a group of four and wearing a christmas cracker paper crown will be served a complimentary Galette […]
Romy Gill, the restaurateur behind Romy’s Kitchen Restaurant in Gloucestershire, is taking the first residency of 2016 at Carousel in London’s Marylebone. The chef will marry vibrant West Bengal flavours with West Country produce for a special tasting menu available from tomorrow (5 January). The menu will take diners on a culinary grand tour of […]
It may never have lived up to its cathedral-like setting under the railway arches but Vinopolis has been a Borough Market institution since 1999, so news of its impending closure is certainly sad. The wine tour and tasting venue, along with its restaurant Cantina Vinopolis (where food was always rather secondary to wine buffery), will […]
A further three dining destinations have been announced for Belgravia’s new restaurant hub Nova, which will garnish the restaurant wasteland around Victoria station with no fewer than 18 eateries next year. And we’re not talking about any old chains either. Barbecoa, Franco Manca and Daisy Green will join restaurants from Jason Atherton, D&D London and Will Ricker […]
Jay Rayner likened its concept to an “Italian Ikea concession” while the Indy’s John Walsh compared a visit there to “wandering into a peculiar branch of McDonald’s”. Yep, Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo’s (of Bocca di Lupo fame) latest venture Vico got a bit of a rough ride when it opened in Cambridge Circus in August […]
Luxury boutique hotel Flemings Mayfair is offering cut-price overnight packages from January until spring 2016 as it goes ‘under the knife’ for the second stage of its £14 million refurbishment project. This summer the 150-year-old hotel will unveil a new look, as well as an 80-cover restaurant by chef Shaun Rankin of Jersey’s famed (although these […]
Celebrated restaurateurs (and, as of 2014, hoteliers too) Chris Corbin and Jeremy King opened their first restaurant outside of central London, in Islington, this week (14 December). The Wolseley-et-al duo, who launched Fischer’s in Marylebone and The Beaumont hotel with its much-lauded Colony Grill Room last year, have taken over the site of Browns (a very grand […]
A new private members club dedicated to wine opened on 7 December on Pall Mall. But if you’re an oenophile and would like to join then, sorry to say, there’s already a waiting list as membership was full some time before the place launched. Housed within Sir Edwin Lutyens’ inimitable former Banking Hall, 67 Pall Mall’s raison […]
To celebrate their fabulous new opening in September this year, The Hour Glass pub is offering you the chance to win a meal for two including a glass of champagne on arrival, three delicious courses and a bottle of house wine. The Hour Glass pub in South Kensington offers everything that a neighbourhood pub should […]
What better way to get into the mood for Christmas than by gliding elegantly around London’s longest-standing outdoor ice rink? (Well, in your mind’s eye anyway!) Whether you’re a skating novice or an old hand, the City’s Broadgate, by Liverpool Street station, is the place to wrap up warm and don a pair of skates […]
