Mark Hix will open his first stand-alone Mark’s Bar at The Old Vic on 17 October 2015. This is the restaurateur’s third drinking den, the original Mark’s Bar Soho (below his restaurant on Brewer Street) was followed up with a second outpost in Bankside last year. The bar at The Old Vic will be open […]
Dinner and a show – it’s a classic combination – but not a particularly cheap one most of the time. Luckily we’ve rounded up the best places to find pre and post-theatre menus. Whether you fancy fine dining at temples of gastronomy like Koffman’s and Gymkhana for a fraction of the price, or you’re looking […]
It seems the rocky years are well and truly behind Gordon Ramsay with his restaurant empire on the march again – particularly his maze Grill brand which launched two new London sites this year. Hopefully the deletion of maze in Mayfair from the Michelin guide this month hasn’t got him down too much! This week […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. Trending Restaurants 17-23 September […]
The Good Egg, a street food startup that crowd-funded £250K to acquire a plum spot on Stokey’s Church Street, will open its first standalone site on 25 September. Sign up for The Good Egg newsletter to be sure of an invite to their soft launch, running 25-27 September. Throughout the summer The Good Egg has remained true […]
Australian-raised Italian brothers Gabriel and Marcello Bernardi bring an Antipodean approach to their motherland’s cuisine to London with Bernardi’s, now open in Marylebone. The 120-cover all-day restaurant and bar on the corner of Seymour Street and Seymour Place, occupies two floors of a restored Victorian property in Portman Village. As well as an open plan dining […]
A new wood-fired pizza place opens within the Green & Fortune Café in the atrium of a King’s Cross arts hub this week. Early bird visitors to Project Pizza in Kings Place can take advantage of a 25% off all pizzas soft launch offer from 22-25 September. The menu will feature classics and regularly changing […]
Kensington’s American dude food emporium, Dirty Bones, expands to a second (more central) location in growing Soho restaurant hub Kingly Court. The new restaurant will open on 28 September and joins the likes of PizzaPilgrims, Señor Ceviche, Jinjuu and, soon, another branch of Dishoom, in this vibrant courtyard just off Carnaby Street. Dirty Bones Soho, […]
The tyre men have today (16 September) announced new entries and deletions for the 2016 Michelin Guide ahead of the book’s release later this month. Perhaps the most surprising award was to Umu, a blingy Mayfair Japanese, which was bumped up to a two star rating. It was first awarded a star in 2005 after its […]
This perennially popular small chain of cool Mumbai-style cafés is set to open Dishoom Carnaby on Kingly Street in Soho this October. As with the group’s other three outposts (King’s Cross, Shoreditch and Covent Garden) the restaurant will provide a surprisingly genuine homage to the old Irani cafés of Bombay. It includes a Permit Room […]
