Yet another gourmet burger brand is pitching up in the capital, arriving in Fitzrovia’s Percy Street straight from Paris on 10 March. With the other existing branches of Big Fernand being in Lille and Lyons, London must have seemed an obvious next step. To celebrate the launch the restaurant will hand out 100 free hamburgés daily to the most […]

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Favoured Left Bank haunt of stars like Depardieu and Deneuve, La Cigale Récamier is opening a Knightsbridge offshoot later this month, to be called Les Soufflés. The new restaurant, in Beauchamp Place, will serve up … well you can guess. It’s La Cigale Récamier’s speciality. Estelle Idoux, daughter of Gérard Idoux who founded La Cigale Récamier, […]

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