Balham is hosting its annual Balham Banquet for a fourth year. The aim of the event is to showcase the best of Balham’s exciting local food scene, with street vendors, al fresco bars, and activities. It’s growing: last year saw 1,500 people turn up to enjoy circus skills workshops and cookie decorating. And the fine […]
The Wolseley W1 “Always bustling” and “a real occasion” – Corbin & King’s “large, continental and sophisticated”Grand Café near The Ritz is “a marvellous, metropolitan meeting point” not least for the capital’s movers ’n’ shakers (it’s “great for subtle star-spotting!”) for whom the “courteous and very professional service” helps make it the town’s No. 1 […]
This year’s Balham Food Festival kicks off on Sunday September 25 with the all-day Balham Banquet in pedestrian Hildreth Street and Bedford Hill Place, followed by a week of special offers in the restaurants, bars and cafés of the surrounding area. Hildreth Street was transformed into a modern foodie hub as part of the £2million makeover […]
The Araki, a nine-seater Japanese counter in Mayfair that at over £350 a head is Britain’s most expensive restaurant, has been crowned London’s Top Gastronomic Experience at the first ever Harden’s London Restaurant Awards, justifying sushi master Mitsuhiro Araki’s gamble in closing down his Michelin three-star operation in Tokyo to move around the world. He shared the […]