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Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 29 September 2019. Forza Wine, London SE15 Jimi Famurewa for The Evening Standard encourages readers to ignore any “sniffiness” they might feel about Forza Wine, on the fifth floor of “a shiny new multi-level co-working complex that looms above Rye Lane”; yes, it […]
Mayfair hotspot Sabor is looking to open a second restaurant in Soho, reports say. Planning documents submitted to Westminster Council name Sabor and JKS Restaurants in a proposed opening on Lexington Street. Former Barrafina head chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho and José Etura set up Sabor in February 2018 and there might only have been vague […]
Legendary London restaurant Gaylord, shut since June (or thereabouts), will be replaced with a new Indian spot called Banjarah. It is not known exactly when Gaylord, a North Indian restaurant based in Fitzrovia for a cool 53 years, shut up shop, but tables can no longer be booked and its website is offline, as Harden’s […]
London is to get yet another destination for pasta-lovers and value hounds. Bancone, one of the capital’s favourite fiercely new-age joints, is planning to open a second site in Soho. The first, in Covent Garden, was presented the award for Top Cheap Eat at Harden’s London Restaurant Awards 2019 earlier this month. Its impressively good […]
The Olive Branch, one of the UK’s first trendsetting gastropubs, is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. The Olive Branch, in Clipsham, Rutland – Britain’s smallest county – was founded by Ben Jones, Sean Hope and Marcus Welford in November 1999 and is still seen as one of the country’s best pub restaurants. It has […]
Damian Clisby, former chef director of Petersham Nurseries, and Nick Gibson, owner of Islington gastropub The Drapers Arms, will open their first joint venture, Emile, in Shoreditch. The restaurant and wine bar will open at 26 Curtain Road for six months from on October 10, with Mediterranean-inspired food and a refined wine list. The 40-cover […]
The Gladwin brothers, the team behind Rabbit, The Shed, and Nutbourne, based in Chelsea, Notting Hill, and Battersea respectively, will open their first restaurant in Soho. Called Sussex after their family farm and vineyard, the restaurant “will be a celebration of the Sussex countryside captured within an eclectic mix of classic and progressive cooking.” Ingredients […]
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 […]
