Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 29 December 2019 – our last round-up of the year. Some more critics looked back over their past visits – perhaps we should call this week’s page “Review of the review of the reviews”? This week’s ‘best of the […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 22 December 2019. This week’s Christmas article / ‘best of the year’ round-up came from The Evening Standard’s Fay Maschler, whose ‘favourite restaurants’ article featured many of her friends from her decades of reviewing (and “do not necessarily adhere […]
The Daisy Green Collection has announced its second City of London site, Barbie Green. Located within Wall Place, Barbie Green brings the restaurant group’s Australian bottomless brunch, coffees and wines, and a new pizza menu. Pizza is a first for the Daisy Green Collection. Varieties include ‘Hot Sausage’, made with spicy chorizo, nduja, organic tomatoes, […]
Caribbean-style bar and restaurant The Rum Kitchen will open a third site in Shoreditch in 2020. A spokesperson said: “We’re so excited about opening our third site in Shoreditch, building on the successes of our existing restaurants in Soho and Brixton. “As with Soho and Brixton, we were on the hunt for an area where […]
Taiwanese dim sum group Din Tai Fung is expected to open its second London restaurant in 2020. The brand is set to take on the space vacated by Rhubarb’s Vivi at Centre Point, Propel first reported. Din Tai Fung, which operates more than 160 restaurants worldwide – two have Michelin stars – was previously considering […]
Chef Marco Pierre White has revealed a Hollywood movie about his life, starring Russell Crowe, is in the works. The biopic will chart MPW’s life from budding star to three Michelin-star winner. Crowe will play the restaurateur in his later days. MPW said: “I have just signed the deal. Russell has written the script, Russell’s […]
Steak and chophouse Blacklock will open a fourth site in 2020, adding to its existing ones in Soho, the City, and Shoreditch. The restaurant group is looking to move into Covent Garden, according to Big Hospitality, preferably Henrietta Street (already home to Flat Iron). Blacklock has long been an established favourite with meat eaters. Many […]
• Fraiche in Oxton tops Harden’s 100• 1 in 10 of Harden’s 100 restaurants are Indian• Kent is top county for high quality dining• North West strongest dining region after South East• Edinburgh is second restaurant city A chef who closed his restaurant last year only to re-open it months later has been crowned the […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 15 December 2019. This week’s Christmas article / ‘best of the year’ round-up came from Nicholas Lander in The Financial Times, who gave us his list of favourites (“in 2020, restaurateurs must offer the hospitality many of us crave”). […]
The last ‘Fifteen’ stemming from Jamie Oliver’s 2002 TV documentay series on Channel 4 has ceased trading with immediate effect, putting 100 jobs at risk. Although the woes of the Naked Chef’s restaurant empire and closure of his Jamie’s Italian chain have been well publicised over the last year, this closure is not in fact […]
