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Independent London pizza group Zia Lucia is opening its fourth permanent restaurant – in Aldgate East – in February. The move will mark the company’s most central site to date, adding to existing restaurants in Islington, Kensington, and Boxpark Wembley. Claudio Vescovo and Gianluca D’Angelo established the brand in 2016 and it has since become […]
Kym’s in Bloomberg Arcade is set to welcome in the Year of the Rat for Chinese New Year 2020 with a lantern installation, limited edition celebration menu, and a giveaway of 3,000 prize filled fortune cookies. From January 13 to February 9, the interiors will be decorated with an installation of traditional red lanterns, with […]
Plant-based restaurant, Halo Burger, is to open its second site on January 22 on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. The expansion comes after a “successful year” at a site at POP Brixton. Halo Burgers uses Beyond Meat, an increasingly popular plant-based product developed in San Francisco, California. Halo Burger founder Ross Forder said: “We can’t […]
February 2020 will see the acclaimed and near-legendary Indian restaurant Gymkhana reopen its doors following a period of closure for refurbishment. Late last year the site was stricken by a devastating fire, so its relaunch will be welcome indeed. Inspired by the elite clubs of India where members of high society once socialised, are and […]
Restaurateurs Neil Rankin and Handley Amos are to join SALT, a “partnership and experience” agency specialising in food & drink, to head up its new restaurant division The Pepper Collective. The collective has brought together a team of people with a common purpose: “to work with like-minded souls, businesses and enterprises to create new hospitality […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 5 January 2020 – our first round-up of the decade. Allegra, London E20 Grace Dent for The Guardian had a hard time convincing friends to join her for a meal at Allegra. It’s just “so far away” and “Londoners […]
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 […]
