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A campaign to save one of Soho’s most historic pubs, the French House, has raised nearly £50,000 since it launched last week. The owners of the iconic watering hole, on Dean Street, are trying to see £80,000 donated in order to pay rent and preserve the premises to continue after lockdown. The French House is […]
Jay Rayner for The Observer waited for 20 minutes at Restarant 92 before any food arrived on the table – and that was just bread. He’d been delayed on the train and was very cold – not the best start. Luckily, Micheal Carr’s cooking won him over, with its “fun ideas”, “enthusiasm” and “admirable risks”. […]
Grace Dent for The Guardian visits The French House in Soho with some reluctance: it’s a “hollow task to review a restaurant that has tottered on already… for more than 100 years”. But with Neil Borthwick freshly installed at the reigns, she felt obliged to check that he was respecting this last bastion of Soho’s […]
For The Observer, Jay Rayner recommends that you “find something worth celebrating” in order to eat at Liverpool’s “note perfect” Roski, from former (joint) MasterChef: The Professionals winner, Anton Piotrowski, who Jay remembers judging in 2012. He tried cooking in rural Devon and Plymouth before settling here – all Jay can say is “Lucky Liverpool”. “Care […]
Chef Neil Borthwick has taken over the historic dining room at The French House in Soho, stepping down as head chef at the Merchants Tavern in Shoreditch. Borthwick opened the Merchants Tavern in 2013 in collaboration with wife Angela Hartnett and Canteen owners Dominic Lake and Patrick Clayton-Malone. Since then, visitors have appreciated its “value […]
