Harden’s (slightly delayed) weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 22 September 2019. Lagom at Hackney Church Brew Co, London E8 Searching for “good food, fairly priced” instead of the “false promise” of restaurants where the main courses start at £25, Jay Rayner for The Observer headed […]
Sticks’n’Sushi is to open a new restaurant and bar at 40 Beak Street, Soho, on October 9. Despite so much talk of doom and gloom in the restaurant industry currently, the debut demonstrates the potential for continued expansion by chains with a good story to tell. The Danish-based sushi and yakitori group, which give Japanese […]
Stevie Parle will open a second Pastaio at Westfield London in November. The restaurateur’s first, in Soho, hasn’t wowed everyone but has always offered great “value for money”, and many will be pleased to have a second “pasta pit-stop” while shopping out west. The new 145-seat restaurant will benefit from two open kitchens (one dedicated […]
Oxford Brookes University has confirmed its Brookes Restaurant will close in 2020. News that the restaurant, which provided a place for its prestigious hospitality school students to train, was met with widespread consternation earlier this year, and a petition to ensure it remained open was signed by thousands. However, staff at the university said the […]
Iconic London restaurant St John, which introduced an unsuspecting world to the gospel of ‘nose-to-tail dining’, is to open in Los Angeles, USA, in October. Hitherto a profound statement of UK culinary identity, it will be interesting to see whether it becomes a branch of the native Californian food culture, or is rather a Brit […]
Jason Atherton launched his new Mayfair restaurant, The Betterment, on Thursday. It is, coincidentally, across the square from Gordon Ramsay’s new Lucky Cat. Ramsay was Atherton’s boss for ten years, of course. Atherton’s project forms an integral part of the latest instalment in Hilton’s growing collection of luxury hotels, Hilton LXR Hotels & Resorts. It […]
Taiwanese bun shop Bao is planning to open its fifth site. Bao is reportedly launching at the bottom of Universal Music headquarters in Pancras Square, King’s Cross, and will do so alongside Sri Lankan restaurant Hoppers. Bao will open at the development following a licensing application for a new two-story restaurant, according to MCA. Eater […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending or avoiding, for the week ending 15 September 2019. It’s slightly shorter than usual this week – we’re busy finalising Harden’s London Restaurants 2020 and sending it off to the printer; available soon in all good bookshops! OKN1, London N1 40 Hoxton Street might not […]
Brown’s Hotel is to launch a new restaurant on September 9. The Rocco Forte enterprise will open Charlie’s, named after Lord Charles Forte, under incoming chef director Adam Byatt, best-known for his Michelin-starred, much adored Trinity restaurant in Clapham. Charlie’s will celebrat the brand’s heritage, and will, an announced said, make sue of “authentic ingredients […]
The Pig hotel chain is expanding to Cornwall in 2020. It will be the seventh to open, and will follow the launch in Bridge, near Canterbury, Kent, in May. Another is expected in West Sussex later next year. For now, all eyes are on the Cornish outpost, which is positioned in Harlyn Bay near Padstow […]
