To get you in the Christmas spirit, Harden’s has teamed up with Lanes of London to bring you the chance to win a champagne afternoon tea for two with a merry little twist. Available throughout December, the Festive Afternoon Tea comes with a selection of dainty finger sandwiches and traditional buttermilk scones, served with clotted cream and […]
Enjoy a relaxing mini-break this winter at the fabulous Stoke Place hotel in Buckinghamshire for half price. Harden’s readers can get a 50% discount on the best available bed and breakfast rate from 12 December 2014 to 31 March 2015 when having dinner in Seasons restaurant. The stylish new dining room, on the hotel’s ground […]
London’s love affair with all things Peruvian (perhaps it is Paddington fever?) continues as the people behind Bravas announce plans to open a second St Katherine Docks restaurant – this time a Japanese/Peruvian fusion place. Bal Thind and Victor Garvey (who launched their Spanish tapas joint Bravas earlier this year) will open Amaru on 5 […]
Danny Meyer’s Covent Garden venture Shake Shack divides critics, but love it or loathe it we’re getting another one. The NYC restaurateur’s Union Square Hospitality Group plan to launch a second London site in mid-2015, this time in Stratford’s expansive Westfield shopping centre. His marketeers say this Shack “will build on the success of the […]
Trafalgar Square’s grand hotel brasserie, The Balcon at the Sofitel St James, has got something rather unusual on the menu. We all know it’s is just the job for a business lunch or pre theatre bite, but how about for a new kind of dessert bar? The hotel has launched what they are calling a Baba […]
Messrs Bancroft and Haworth’s fabulous Langho manor house, Northcote, will celebrate its 30th birthday in January together with the 15th year of its annual gastronomic event, Obsession. If you’re obsessed with food the gourmet evenings, running from Friday 23 January – Saturday 7 February, could be the place for you. The starry roll call of […]
Watch out Kenilworth and Kegworth, Marco Pierre White’s New York Italian brand is coming to a hotel dining room near you. The former enfant terrible of British cooking is expanding his restaurant empire through franchising company, Black & White, which aims to have 20 sites open by mid-2015 and 50 within the next four years. […]
The Joint – the pop-up-turned-permanent restaurant famed for its pulled pork burger – has opened a second site. The US-inspired BBQ spot has taken over the Marylebone premises in New Cavendish Street which were previously home to short-lived burger bar SLABS. It appears that this high-end burger restaurant, poorly reviewed by many including the Standard, just wasn’t doing […]
From today (8 December) “memorable” City spot, Sushisamba, will join the ranks of a select few London restaurants serving genuine Kobe beef. Through an exclusive contract with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan and the Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association, chef Claudio Cardoso will now serve this sought after (and expensive) […]
He’s probably this country’s most consistent celebrity chef. From Pollen Street Social to (most recently) City Social, Jason Atherton’s restaurants are always a safe bet for “flavour popping” cuisine and “incredibly attentive” service, as far as our 2015 survey reporters are concerned. And now we hear that the chef-turned-restaurateur is to open his first restaurant […]
