Highly rated taco stall Sonora is transferring from East London’s Netil Market to booming Arcade Food Hall in Centre Point off Oxford Street, where it will open under a new name – Mexa – and with new seafood options on the menu. This coming weekend marks its last hurrah in London Fields’ Netil Market, which will […]
It is oft remarked that we Brits love to queue, and when it comes to dining out in London sometimes that’s a necessity. According to recent research queues are governed by the rule of six – customers will only join a queue with less than six people and are only willing to wait six minutes. Restaurant-goers, […]
A collaboration between ex-Mayfields chef Matthew Young and sommelier Jack Lewens, formerly of Spring and River Café – due to open on 20 November in Hackney’s Netil House – is sure to have east London foodsters (foodie-hipsters) excited. And foodies in general if we’re honest. Young’s food has been praised by everyone from the broadsheet big guns […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. Al fresco Trending Restaurants […]
The people behind one of London’s most talked about restaurants, Gymkhana, have backed a new venture serving Taiwanese street food. Karam Sethi and his family, founders of Mayfair’s hottest nouvelle Indian – the 12th most mentioned restaurant in our 2015 survey – have thrown their weight behind Bao, which began life as a stall at […]
If you haven’t got the megabuck-backing of a Russian oligarch – or of one of the existing restaurant empires – then one of the best ways to get your foot in the door of your own establishment seems to be to start at street level. The latest ‘street-food-vendors-turned-pop-up-operators-turned-restaurateurs’ are the people behind Breddos – winners […]
