The Editors’ review of Bird We ‘get’ bird in Shoreditch   Grace Dent reviews Blanchette The woman who loves a good bistro, but doesn’t like to share   City Social opens at Tower 42 Jason Atherton’s new restaurant has star quality (in the form of Benedict Cumberbatch)   The Standard’s Fay Maschler has a busy week First […]

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No sooner have we noted Londoners’ love affair with chicken, than another poultry place arrives on the scene. Bird, now open in Shoreditch, is billing itself as a ‘free range, fried chicken’ restaurant which takes inspiration from across the Pond, but this is, say the founders, a ‘distinctly British’, London version of local community restaurants found in Brooklyn […]

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Styled as ‘a local restaurant for local people’, Lyle’s opens today (29 April) in Shoreditch’s old Tea Building. Founded by former Young Turk, James Lowe, the 48-cover, all-day dining room will offer British fare at reasonable prices. Lunch dishes range from £7-£15 and the set dinner menu is £39/head. Lowe hopes that his prices will […]

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