Ground-breaking Middle Eastern cafe-restaurant Honey & Co has found a new home in Bloomsbury, where it will reopen later this spring after 10 years in Fitzrovia. Husband-and-wife founders Sarit Packer and Itamar Svrulovich (pictured above) were forced into the move when their landlord declined to extend the lease on the Warren Street premises. The new […]

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Honey & Co, the small cafe-restaurant in Fitzrovia that helped propel the popularisation of Middle Eastern cuisine in London, is closing down after 10 years following the landlord’s refusal to extend its lease. Israeli-born couple Sarit Parker and Itamar Svrulovich, both alumni of the original Ottolenghi in Notting Hill, launched Honey & Co to general […]

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Harden’s has released the final shortlist for this year’s definitive London Restaurant Awards, which takes place on 11 September at The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 27-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers.  This year 8,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the categories specified by Harden’s. The […]

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