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Hardens.com -- the most authoritative restaurant and venue guides for London and the UK. en-gb Copyright (C): Harden's Ltd http://images.hardens.com/images/HardensLogoRSS.jpg http://www.hardens.com/ 60 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 18 19 20 21 22 23 Saturday Sunday http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/21-05-13/barrafina-to-open-in-covent-garden/ Second site in the works http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/21-05-13/barrafina-to-open-in-covent-garden/ Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/17-05-13/little-social-w1/ Hidden-away just off Regent Street, Jason Atherton’s second Mayfair restaurant offers a clubby vibe very different from his uncompromising Pollen Street Social, just over the road – for all-round http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/17-05-13/little-social-w1/ Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/17-05-13/chelsea-flower-show-where-to-dine/ Flower Show Specials http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/17-05-13/chelsea-flower-show-where-to-dine/ Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/16-05-13/fine-dining-in-chelsea-five-fields-opens/ Five Fields opens on 21 May http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/16-05-13/fine-dining-in-chelsea-five-fields-opens/ Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/13-05-13/beard-to-tail-ec2/ An unadorned Shoreditch purveyor of ‘meat & whiskey’ – it sounds a convivial sort of concept, but we found the reality rather up-and-down. So we find ourselves in a chilly Shoreditch, in sear http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/13-05-13/beard-to-tail-ec2/ Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/08-05-13/ottos-wc1/ Run by the eponymous Otto, a straight-down-the-line Gallic restaurant, offering classic cooking of good quality, in an attractive and characterful Bloomsbury setting. The idea that a restaurant is http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/08-05-13/ottos-wc1/ Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/03-05-13/kaspars-opens-in-the-savoy/ Opens in the former space of the River Restaurant http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/03-05-13/kaspars-opens-in-the-savoy/ Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/01-05-13/world-50-best/ The globe’s ever bigger foodie countdown http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/01-05-13/world-50-best/ Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/29-04-13/all-change-in-st-jamess/ Wave of openings and closures in St James's http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/29-04-13/all-change-in-st-jamess/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/26-04-13/coya-w1/ Opposite Green Park, a smart, well-spaced and welcoming Peruvian bar/restaurant offering good standards all-round; for those not too worried about counting the pennies, its clubby charms would make it http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/26-04-13/coya-w1/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/10-04-13/no-11-pimlico-road-sw1/ On the Belgravia/Pimlico fringe, the former Ebury has been relaunched as a good-all-round bar/restaurant, offering food of no particular ambition, but realised with solid consistency. It's “rathe http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/10-04-13/no-11-pimlico-road-sw1/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/04-04-13/brasserie-chavot-w1/ A vehicle for a chef of undoubted talent, this ostentatious Mayfair 'brasserie' offers perfectly acceptable food and service but on our early-days visit any sort of excitement was signally lacking. http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/04-04-13/brasserie-chavot-w1/ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/02-04-13/chrysan-shutters/ Hakkasan group restaurant Chrysan, in the City of London, closes doors http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/02-04-13/chrysan-shutters/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/25-03-13/shepherds-sw1/ [A sad note: we are now informed that this restaurant closed on Friday 22 March - the day upon which this review was originally scheduled to appear. We are sorry for the staff, who were particularly c http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/25-03-13/shepherds-sw1/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/22-03-13/easter-tables/ http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/22-03-13/easter-tables/ Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/20-03-13/christophers-set-to-relaunch-in-april/ Renaissance of dining in Covent Garden http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/20-03-13/christophers-set-to-relaunch-in-april/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/14-03-13/competition%21/ Win 'Wine and Spice' dinner for two at The Cinnamon Club http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/14-03-13/competition%21/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-03-13/zoilo-w1/ A secret stand-by twixt Selfridges and the Wallace Collection, offering a range of high-quality Argentinean small plates (and wines) and prices we thought rather high. Handily hidden-away near Self http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-03-13/zoilo-w1/ Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/07-03-13/scoffs-sw1/ From an operator with some big-name experience behind him, a low-key fast-food chain-prototype, in Victoria, offering standards which – at least in the early days – are impressive. Not a tweet, http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/07-03-13/scoffs-sw1/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/27-02-13/il-calcio-w1/ Part of a Romanian-based chain, a Mayfair Italian (with a twin in Earl’s Court) offering a generic formula that’s about 20 years out-of-date, and at high prices too; with the food, however, there http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/27-02-13/il-calcio-w1/ Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/12-02-13/two-west-country-seafood-openings/ http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/12-02-13/two-west-country-seafood-openings/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-02-13/newman-street-tavern/ A couple of blocks from Charlotte Street, a corner boozer which gives a convincing British spin on the classic brasserie format; our early-days visit found it one of those rare places where there’s http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-02-13/newman-street-tavern/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/29-01-13/hkk-ec2/ Presided over by the executive chef of the usually good (but always pricey) Hakkasan group, a business-friendly City-fringe restaurant offering prettified, notionally Cantonese dishes – some of very http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/29-01-13/hkk-ec2/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/24-01-13/shoryu-ramen-sw1/ Near Piccadilly Circus, a warm, welcoming and slightly chaotic Japanese noodle parlour, serving warming dishes in generous portions – ideal for West End refuelling! Looking for a quick, cheap and http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/24-01-13/shoryu-ramen-sw1/ Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/07-01-13/flat-iron-w1/ Just off Carnaby Street, an amiable bistro (on the former site of Benja, RIP), offering a top-value steak/frites formula in a tightly-packed communal setting surprisingly evocative of Old Soho. The http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/07-01-13/flat-iron-w1/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/07-01-13/simon-rogan-to-open-in-manchester/ http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/07-01-13/simon-rogan-to-open-in-manchester/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/03-01-13/wabi-wc2/ On the eastern fringe of Covent Garden, a smart basement Japanese restaurant with a rather corporate atmosphere and quite high prices (especially on the wine front); for business entertainment, though http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/03-01-13/wabi-wc2/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/18-12-12/hardens-christmas-competition/ Win lunch for 2 at the Electrolux Cube on Friday 21 December http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/18-12-12/hardens-christmas-competition/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/13-12-12/naamya-cafe-/ From Alan Yau/the Busaba Eathai team, a striking prototype, by Angel tube, for a contemporary-style Thai chain; on our early-days visit, we found we could add to the chorus of approval that has greete http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/13-12-12/naamya-cafe-/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/05-12-12/mash-steakhouse-w1/ Near Piccadilly Circus a vast but soothing subterranean steakhouse, in Art Deco style, offering high standards of food and service, and an impressive wine ‘offer’ too. This vast Modern American http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/05-12-12/mash-steakhouse-w1/ Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/26-11-12/the-quality-chop-house-ec1/ Farringdon’s famous ‘working class caterer’ rises yet again, offering a direct English menu in a tightly packed 'pew-seating’ dining room – an early days visit found a simple but effective f http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/26-11-12/the-quality-chop-house-ec1/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/09-11-12/the-perkin-reveller/ Get thee to the Tower! – if you’re looking for a sunny day lunch destination, you could do very much worse than this surprisingly low-kew 'tourist’ lunch spot, by the Thames. The very idea of http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/09-11-12/the-perkin-reveller/ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/08-11-12/colbert-sw1/ The former Oriel (RIP) site on Sloane Square, relaunched by ‘the Wolseley boys’ as an immediately-successful Gallic brasserie of a high standard; service, though, was decidedly slow, on our visit http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/08-11-12/colbert-sw1/ Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/24-10-12/the-shed-w8/ Near Notting Hill Gate, on the site long known as The Ark (RIP), an unpretentious bistro offering a small-plates formula, and already exerting a wide-ranging appeal. Since 1962, this funny little b http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/24-10-12/the-shed-w8/ Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-10-12/nomad---nyc/ A ‘scene’ and some great food too! – we check out one of the Big Apple’s openings of the year… and find it lives up to the hype! Somewhat to our surprise, we manage to snag a table at the http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-10-12/nomad---nyc/ Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/03-10-12/chrysan-ec2/ North of Liverpool Street, an understated (to a fault) bar/restaurant offering the cuisine of Kyoto; despite the best efforts of the charming staff, and the beautiful presentation of the dishes, our e http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/03-10-12/chrysan-ec2/ Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/28-09-12/olivocarne-sw1/ The fourth member of Belgravia’s own Italian restaurant group; on our visit, steak and service were highlights of an experience that was otherwise rather lacklustre. Within living memory, Belgrav http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/28-09-12/olivocarne-sw1/ Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/19-09-12/the-hype-behind-dabbous/ http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/19-09-12/the-hype-behind-dabbous/ Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/14-09-12/dabbous-w1/ A monumental triumph of hype over experience? – we visit the Fitzrovia restaurant where you can’t generally get a table until 2013… and totally fail to understand the excitement. As we write, http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/14-09-12/dabbous-w1/ Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/11-09-12/3-south-place/ The ground-floor dining room of the D&D (‘Conran’) group’s first solo hotel venture, near Liverpool Street; the venture as a whole generally impressed on our early-days visit, but this particula http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/11-09-12/3-south-place/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/06-09-12/bubbledogs-w1/ A tiny and crammed Fitzrovia parlour, specialising in hot dogs and champagne; we couldn’t quite rationalise the appeal on our early days visit, but it was certainly already drawing in the punters. http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/06-09-12/bubbledogs-w1/ Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/31-08-12/caravan-kings-cross/ In an impressive former granary north of King’s Cross, a (much larger) offshoot of the popular Clerkenwell café/bistro; an impressive all-rounder, it has quickly become surprisingly busy. The cr http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/31-08-12/caravan-kings-cross/ Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/30-08-12/press-announcement-on-launch-of-hardens-london-restaurants-2013/ Openings rise by 25% in vibrant market http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/30-08-12/press-announcement-on-launch-of-hardens-london-restaurants-2013/ Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/14-08-12/banca-w1/ A smart and understated international-crowd Mayfair Italian, with some similarities to La Petite Maison (with which it shares a co-owner); it’s a high-quality operation all-round but, at least in th http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/14-08-12/banca-w1/ Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/03-08-12/galvin-to-open-in-edinburgh/ Two new restaurants in The Caledonian Waldorf Astoria http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/03-08-12/galvin-to-open-in-edinburgh/ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/03-08-12/sushisamba-ec2/ Thirty-eight floors above the City, one of the world’s most ambitious indoor/outdoor elevated restaurants; prices are high, but the place was already into an impressive swing on our day-one visit http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/03-08-12/sushisamba-ec2/ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/25-07-12/sneak-preview-sushisamba-to-open-this-friday/ http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/25-07-12/sneak-preview-sushisamba-to-open-this-friday/ Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/23-07-12/garnier-sw5/ In a busy Earl’s Court location, a surprisingly bourgeois French restaurant whose classic style will come as no surprise to those who’ve followed Eric Garnier since his Racine days; quality is goo http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/23-07-12/garnier-sw5/ Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/16-07-12/eric-garnier-to-open-eponymous-restaurant-in-earls-court/ Garnier Earl’s Court London SW5 now open http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-news/uk-london/16-07-12/eric-garnier-to-open-eponymous-restaurant-in-earls-court/ Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant news http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-07-12/tapasia-w1/ Despite its downmarket name, this rather tacky heart-of-Soho bar/restaurant offers quite ambitious Asian small plates at equally ambitious prices; we found it difficult to disagree with the seeming ma http://www.hardens.com/restaurant-reviews/uk-london/12-07-12/tapasia-w1/ Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Restaurant review