Fancy an NYC-style lunch or dinner without leaving London? We’ve teamed up with dining spot Jackson + Rye to offer a meal for two with drinks at any of its three locations (Soho, Richmond or Chiswick). Enjoy US favourites like the Reuben sandwich, buttermilk fried chicken and pancakes with maple slab bacon, or order something […]
Table for one? An embarrassing question? Eenmaal (‘one meal’) in Amsterdam – a restaurant that caters exclusively to solo diners – is trying to do away with all that. And at the end of January you can grab a table there for yourself as the Dutch restaurant pops-up in London’s Soho. Initially the temporary solo […]
The hotly anticipated Korean restaurant Jinjuu is slated to open next week in Soho, just off Carnaby Street. It’s one that we here at Harden’s have had our eye on for a few months now as it was originally due to launch in the latter half of 2014 but suffered a few delays, as restaurant […]
Some say plans to gentrify the infamous Walkers Court would have the ‘King of Soho’ turning in his grave; home, as it was, to his Raymond Revuebar. But others, like Soho Estates and the developers behind the £45m project, say they have no wish to sanitise the area, but simply want to increase footfall to its […]
Finally, a report that’s topped the ‘rumours and hearsay’ section on our Coming Soon page since February has been verified. Yotam Ottolenghi is definitely to open a City-fringe outpost of his Ottolenghi cafés. This will be the restaurateur’s fifth café/deli, with sites already in Islington, Notting Hill, Kensington and Knightsbridge, as well as his Nopi […]
Serendipitously coinciding with Oktoberfest, the latest Herman ze German outpost opens in Fitzrovia’s Charlotte Street next week. This is the chain’s third London site. The original opened just off the Strand in 2010, followed by a second shop in Soho, in 2013. Herman ze German serves up traditional sausages, but offers gluten and lactose-free Bratwurst, Chilli […]
Borough Market fixture Brindisa will celebrate a decade of serving tapas this year. To mark the occasion the restaurant group, which now has four sites, is to offer customers a week of Spanish feasting at the prices of 10 years ago. From 13-19 October, Brindisa’s top 10 tapas dishes – padron peppers, chorizo, garlic chilli prawns, tortillas, […]
Further proof that Soho’s seedy roots are being eradicated. An illegal strip club on Great Windmill Street has been closed down and will be repurposed as a 50-cover restaurant and Folk clothing shop. First-time restaurateur Gordon Ker (pictured) won permission for a change of use of the site and will convert the basement into a […]
Shoreditch’s Vietnamese restaurant and takeaway, Kêu, will open its second London site in Soho on 15 September. The street food bar, serving up banh mi (filled baguettes), noodle bowls and buns, will take over 9 Poland Street, once home to the Burlington Café. The menu includes classic banh mi like mortadella, pork floss, house chicken liver […]
First-time restaurateur Miguel Caffarena, formerly of Soho’s Bodega Negra, has headed west to open an Asian-influenced tapas bar. Toro Gordo (the Fat Bull) arrived in Hammersmith’s King Street this week and as a special introductory offer Harden’s readers will receive 30 per cent off food throughout the month of August. Just quote ‘Harden’s’ when you […]
