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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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London may never have the climate of Andalucia or the Amalfi Coast, but one thing we can replicate (and sometimes outclass) is their deliciously light and summery food. Harden’s brings you 10 top Mediterranean restaurants to sample as the warm weather approaches…   Assaggi W2 £72 “The best Italian food anywhere… and that includes Italy!” – […]

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Just this week the first ever Quality of Living Index report saw Bristol take the top spot – beating rivals London, Edinburgh and Manchester. So, here’s a look at what’s going on in the West Country as Harden’s highlights Bristol and Bath…   NEWS  Clifton food festival With its village feel and views of the Suspension […]

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The Editors’ review of One Kensington Tamarind group’s latest offering is already firing on all cylinders.   Simon Rogan goes wild at Claridge’s The speculation is over, Rogan’s restaurant will be called Fera (wild in Latin).   The rise of ‘food porn’  Chefs rail against the fashion for photographing food.   Ramsay returns to his […]

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We’re seeing something… it’s a vision of bearded and bespectacled hipsters flocking in their droves in search of foodie nirvana. It can only mean one thing – Psychic Burger has opened a second London location. The founders are bringing their “down and dirty, ‘Rock an’ Drool’ approach” to cooking to the Old Queen’s Head in […]

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