Start the New Year with “Breakfast in Bed,” courtesy of Brew in Putney and Harden’s. We’ve teamed up with the new Antipodean café on Lower Richmond Road to bring you the chance to win breakfast for two in one of the restaurant’s Bedouin-inspired beds with exotically coloured blankets and fabrics from Indonesia. Enjoy dishes like Turkish eggs, poached and […]
Well it’s time to say a fond farewell to 2014, and what a year it’s been. Pop-ups selling human flesh burgers and cafes serving nothing but cereal (only in Shoreditch!), technology takeovers as Instagram photos become currency and iPads replace waiters, and some chin-stroking as Gordon Ramsay blamed chef scheme-hatchery for an empty restaurant on opening […]
It was a record year for restaurants in London. Closures were at an all-time low and new dining spots sprang up from east to west resulting in a net total of 101 new restaurants – the highest number we have ever recorded in Harden’s 24 year history. Of course, not every newcomer can be a […]
The rest of the UK may not have enjoyed the bumper year London did in terms of sheer volume of new restaurants, but several 2014 newcomers outside the capital received rave reviews or were hotly tipped by our reporters. Here are the best openings from across the country in 2014, plus a few that missed […]
There are already dozens of new London restaurant openings lined up for this year on our Coming Soon page. Here are some of the capital’s most anticipated openings… StreetXO W1 Highly regarded Madrid chef David Muñoz is set to open a Mayfair street-food operation, pushed back from summer 2014 to […]
Londoners who fancy a spot of glamping (that’s glamorous camping) won’t need to leave the city as pop-up collective The Art of Dining launch their latest event. Gone Camping will be an ‘interactive and immersive’ experience where guests whittle sticks to toast marshmallows, hear ghost stories and sing around the campfire. Don’t worry, there will also […]
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, […]
A kickstarter-funded café from YouTube cupcake queen, Jemma Wilson, opens today (16 December) in growing restaurant hub, Kingly Court. Located just off Carnaby Street, the complex already houses the like of Pizza Pilgrims, Wright Brothers and Señor Ceviche, with more to come in the New Year. This week Kingly Court’s newest tenant is Crumbs & […]
A new Japanese fusion spot will takeover the handsome Georgian building on Fulham Road that briefly housed the “truly dreadful” Eighty-Six and before that the long-standing Cactus Blue. Zinnia opens on Thursday 18 December serving an all-day menu of bento boxes, sushi and cakes and pastries, plus an evening à la carte. The interior, always […]
Throughout December and January Harden’s readers can treat themselves to a free mezze plate at Fitzrovia’s new Levantine restaurant, Ceru. Just a stone’s throw from Oxford Street on Rathbone Place, it is a perfectly located spot for a pick me up, a bite of lunch or dinner with friends during those stressful Christmas and New Year shopping […]
