Chef Selin Kiazim returns to the London food scene next week with the opening of Turkish restaurant Leydi in the new Hyde hotel near the Old Bailey in Farringdon – 18 months after the closure of her Shoreditch spot Oklava. Selin has vowed to “put Turkish food on the map” with the new venture, saying that […]
Selin Kiazim has scrapped the customary, optional 12.5 per cent service charge at her two Oklava restaurants and said the fees will instead be incorporated into her menu prices. Kiazim, who alongside Laura Christie owns two Oklava sites in Shoreditch and Fitzrovia, said service charge “has always gone to our staff in full” but, while […]
Arcade, a new central London dining hall – curiously described, by the founders, as an “all-day food theatre” – will launch on July 22 at London’s iconic Centre Point building at Tottenham Court Road. Arcade is Europe’s biggest dining hall. The 12,500 square foot, Grade II-listed space features six independent ground-floor kitchens, a coffee and […]
Chefs Selin Kiazim (Oklava) and Pip Lacey (Hicce) join forces to create a truly unique menu at Oklava in Shoreditch next Thursday 1 March to celebrate International Women’s Day. They met while filming BBC2’s Great British Menu and have wanted to work together ever since. The special £65 menu will include collaborative dishes such as: Sumac […]
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. […]
Last week The Times’s Giles Coren was drooling over his keyboard at the very thought of another meal at Brad McDonald’s new Deep South-influenced Soho haunt Shotgun. This week his colleague AA Gill over at the Sunday Times takes said shotgun and fires both barrels at the place in his Table Talk column… “The first […]
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 19-25 Nov […]
