Singaporean pastry chef Cherish Finden is to open her own pâtisserie in the City of London next week, serving her take on savouries such as sausage shokupan and pork floss buns as well as original creations including a chocolate teapot and lemon and raspberry-flavoured mini handbags. Shiok! – pronounced “shook”, a Singlish term of approbation meaning […]
Pan Pacific London, the first European outpost of the Singaporean hotel group, has announced the launch of its signature restaurant, Straits Kitchen, which will incorporate the various cuisines that represent multicultural Singapore. The hotel sits just north of Liverpool Street, and its opening in the City had been postponed by the effects of the pandemic. […]
This week Londoners will get the chance to try the world’s first Michelin-starred street food as Singapore’s Hawker Chan pitches up at Kerb in Granary Square, King’s Cross. Celebrated street food purveyor Chan Hong Men will be serving his signature soya sauce chicken rice box from the north London site from Wednesday 14-Friday 16 March, midday-2 pm, […]
⦿ Jay Rayner of The Observer reviewed Veneta, just off Piccadilly, which, while “not an actively bad restaurant”, brought his culinary year to a disappointing end. “I long ago stopped taking notes in restaurants, figuring that if I couldn’t recall what I’d had for dinner that spoke volumes. With this one I had to dig out the […]
Gordon Ramsay will launch his first ‘heart-of-the-West-End’ operation, Heddon Street Kitchen, on 10 November. Modelled on City outpost Bread Street Kitchen – not, it must be said, much favoured by Harden’s reporters – it will be located on the former site of a Living Room bar and restaurant, just off Regent Street. Heddon Street, the Gordon […]
Globally popular ramen bar, Ippudo – which already has sites in Japan, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York – is finally to open its first European outpost. No prizes for guessing where they’ve decided to launch this new flagship restaurant – London (obvs). Ippudo St Giles will offer Londoners signature dishes like Shiromaru Classic, a traditional white […]
