From celebrity divorces to Barack Obama backing gay marriage, Twitter is the place to break news these days. Follow Harden’s to be on the cutting edge of the restaurant industry. We’ve been on Twitter for several years now and have acquired a healthy following (26,225 followers to be exact). Reporting on everything from Bethnal Green’s […]
Chicken in London is having a moment, so Harden’s thought it was time to lay out some of the capital’s top poultry places… LE COQ N1 £40 Owned by sisters Sanja (a founder of the Salt Yard Group) and Anna Morris, LE COQ serves up a weekly-changing menu with influences from around the world. […]
Were you aware it’s Earth Awareness month? Harden’s has teamed up with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) to bring you a list of some of the UK’s top places to eat ethically. Save the planet while also tantalising your tastebuds… Grain Store N1 £50 Harden’s says: “An exciting new venture for Bruno Loubet and his […]
Near Camden Lock, an edgy-but-smart American bar/diner de luxe; it offers good standards across the board, but not – to our mind – any particular reason to seek the place out. Visit the website for this anonymously-named American-style grill-restaurant, and what are you supposed to think? Edgy? Anarchic? Very, well, Camden Town? Or, if a […]
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 […]
Favoured Left Bank haunt of stars like Depardieu and Deneuve, La Cigale Récamier is opening a Knightsbridge offshoot later this month, to be called Les Soufflés. The new restaurant, in Beauchamp Place, will serve up … well you can guess. It’s La Cigale Récamier’s speciality. Estelle Idoux, daughter of Gérard Idoux who founded La Cigale Récamier, […]
Claude Bosi, of Mayfair’s Hibiscus, is to join forces with French chef Yannick Alleno to host two special eight-course dinners later this month. The collaboration is of particular interest as Alleno’s credentials include an impressive 10 year stint as head chef at Parisian palace hotel Le Meurice. Since 2008, however, his main goal seems to […]
