Björn Frantzén, the Swedish superstar chef whose Stockholm flagship was this week pronounced No 6 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards, is to open his first UK restaurant in Harrods next year. Last month Frantzén came second in another international contest, the Best Chef awards. Ashley Saxton, general manager of restaurants at Harrods, said it […]
Later this month, Italian luxury lifestyle brand Chucs will open a fourth “cozy and calm” London café at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in the middle of Hyde Park. The Mayfair original, adjoining a Chucs store in Dover Street, opened in 2015, followed by a restaurant at the brand’s Chelsea shop and an outpost in Harrods in 2016 and 2017 […]
This month gardening enthusiasts will head to the Chelsea Flower Show to see what the Royal Horticultural Society has on offer for 2016. If you need a bite with extra flower power to round off your stroll around the blooms – try one of the following floral-inspired menus or cocktails on offer in and around Chelsea… […]
Surely it was only a matter of time before London’s most exclusive department store opened a lounge dedicated to gastronomy’s most expensive ingredient? Knightsbridge landmark Harrods has announced the launch of Italian truffle lounge Tartufi & Friends, on the lower ground floor of the world famous retailer. Tartufi & Friends is ‘entirely dedicated to the […]
Much-loved Broadstairs ice cream parlour Morelli’s Gelato (est 1937) will open a restaurant in Covent Garden Market next week. The gelateria, still in Morelli hands after five generations, has been selling its wares in Harrods for a decade but this will be its first standalone London site. The restaurant will launch on Sunday 21 December, […]
Throughout the winter months, Harrods will bring a taste of Italy to warm its well-heeled shoppers with a pop-up restaurant collection. The temporary dining experience, Stelle di Stelle – run in association with Identità Golose (an international cooking convention) – will showcase an edited version of the restaurants of five Italian chefs, with no fewer […]
Harrod’s main restaurant, the venerable Georgian, has had a complete redesign. This “rendezvous of fashion and luxury”, perched on the Knightsbridge institution’s fourth floor, has been serving Afternoon Tea to well-heeled shoppers since 1913. As of 25 July it will do so in a more contemporary setting, which, we are told, blends classicism and modernism. […]
When it closed in 2012, everyone thought it might be gone for good, but Toto’s Italian restaurant, in Knightsbridge, has made a comeback. The restaurant has undergone a complete £3 million redesign (which is no bad thing as the decor was starting to look a little faded long before it closed – Harden’s more charitable […]
Foxcroft & Ginger, Soho, launches its second outpost, in Whitechapel, today (3 April). The new 70-cover restaurant occupies the former site of Wickham’s department store in Mile End Road, which – as all readers will doubtless know – was once regarded as the ‘Harrod’s of the East’. Foxcroft & Ginger’s new operation includes a 24-hour […]
