‘Mostly vegan’ chef Rishim Sachdeva is to open a new café at Somerset House on the Strand next month, following his launch last year of restaurant Tendril in Mayfair. His new ‘plant-first’ all-day venture, Café Petiole – named after the thin stalk connecting a leaf to a stem – will feature pastries and desserts from Tendril’s head […]
A third-generation chef who virtually grew up in her family’s well-known Southall restaurant has opened a new central London venture under her own name. Dipna Anand Restaurant & Bar in Somerset House, the arts complex on the Strand, shares its Neoclassical accommodation with the Courtauld Gallery and Skye Gyngell’s highly related restaurant, Spring. 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 29 October […]
The craft beer revolution has taken London by storm. But while we are partial to a pale ale or a porter, how much do we really know about the art of brewing or pairing beer with food? Pennethorne’s Cafe Bar at Somerset House, has teamed up with London brewery, CRATE, to offer monthly masterclasses. Tomorrow […]
Some “can’t see what all the fuss is about”, others go nuts for its “game-changing cuisine” – one things for sure, Ollie Dabbous’s Fitzrovia flagship doesn’t produce any tepid responses from our reporters. And now, love it or loathe it, it may actually be possible to get a reservation at chef’s eponymous restaurant as it […]
Pennethorne’s Cafe Bar, which joined Skye Gyngell’s Spring at Somerset House late last year, has just launched a stylish new private dining room. Named after Sir James Pennethorne (the architect who designed the New Wing of The Strand’s iconic landmark) the cafe is an all-day dining spot and now an events space too. The Drawing Room […]
Skye Gyngell – formerly of the Petersham Nurseries Café – is to open her first solo London venture ‘Spring’ on 14 October. The 100-cover restaurant, set within Somerset House’s ‘New Wing’, will occupy an elegant 18th century dining room that hasn’t been open to the public for 150 years. Attached to the restaurant will be a parlour serving ices […]
