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. From finding the perfect grilled cheese at Salon in Brixton to six course tasting menus at Hakkasan and spotting Marcus Wareing at your neighbouring table in the Holborn Dining Room, this week’s top five ‘trendiest’ restaurants are…

Trending Restaurants  31 October-7 November

1. Hakkasan @HakkasanHanway

• What people are saying:
  • Via @Jessie_Vee : “Dim Sum Sundays at @HakkasanHanway ~ 6 courses of deliciousness perfect for a wintery afternoon
  • Via @PritaDas : “Beautiful food and exceptional service – thanks for making my mum a happy birthday girl, @HakkasanHanway.”

2. The Providores and Tapa Room @theprovidores

• What people are saying:
  • Via @vanessa_northam : “@theprovidores first visit…. We will be back! Great food, service, atmosphere! What’s not to like!? @ajnortham @njnortham
  • Via @FrancesCottrell : “Highlight of my Pinot tasting afternoon @theprovidores – 7 hour cooked lamb and a lot of NZ pinots. Go Monday!”

3. Salon @Salon_Brixton

• What people are saying:
  • Via @bellaschilling1 : “@Salon_Brixton Came in for a salad & left with a blue cheese & onion marmalade sandwich. I regret nothing. #BestEver”
  • Via @Naomi_Bacon : “Thanks @Salon_Brixton for our cheeky grilled cheese sandwiches last night! They were INCREDIBLE. @Sophie_Zking and I will be back very soon”

4. Tredwell’s @Tredwells

• What people are saying:
  • Via @laurabangay : “Super excited to be going to @Tredwells tonight!!! Am not eating all day in preparation so bring on the yummy food!!!”
  • Via @Zero_Heroes : “Ate at #tredwells yesterday with some friends. Definitely worth going if you live in london.”

Holborn Dining Room @HolbornDining

• What people are saying:
  • Via @LucyFleet1 : “When you spot @marcuswareing in the same restaurant as you, you know you’ve made a good choice! Highly recommend @HolbornDining”
  • Via @ElyseLi1 : “Had a very, very nice dinner time @HolbornDining best #Baked Alaska# I’ve ever had @chefcalum thank you!!!”

To find more places that have Londoners buzzing on Twitter, check out the Twizoo app available on iOS and Android, or follow @TwizooLondon on Twitter. And stay tuned next week to see which London restaurants make the list. In the meantime, happy Tweeting!

Twizoo’s Techies Explain…

You’ve probably noticed on Twitter on the left hand side of your ‘Home’ page there’s a ‘Trends’ list. Twizoo has built the same thing, but solely for London restaurants. Our number crunching detects the rate of change of influential mentions on Twitter. For example, ‘Christmas’ is currently trending on Twitter, which means there’s been a spike of mentioning Christmas now compared with the rest of the year.

Applying this to Twizoo’s algorithms: if X restaurant usually gets on average 10 tweets per week, but this week it gets 32 tweets… that’s a pretty big change, so it’s a good indicator something notable is going on. The algorithm notes restaurants that have the highest rate of change and ranks them based on which places’ tweets are the most positive collectively and then it takes the top of those based on how influential the individuals are who tweeted.

Simple see?

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