You know summer has arrived when your inbox is full of press releases announcing the launch of new al fresco dining spots. (Look out for Sea Container’s seafood and champagne terrace at the Mondrian – opening 6 June). And what better way is there to while away the long summer nights, or the (hopefully) scorching […]
Next month will see Queen’s Park’s “lively” Puglian three-year-old Ostuni launch a second site in Highgate Village. The original, which opened in a converted Victorian workshop in 2013, found favour with Harden’s reporters for its “authentically Italian” decor and “great food at reasonable prices”. Its menu is dedicated to the cuisine and wines of Puglia, and its 95-cover sister venue […]
Sea Containers at Mondrian London on the South Bank will launch a Hamptons-inspired summer terrace overlooking the Thames on Monday 6 June. The al fresco dining space will vaunt a new seafood-led menu and lobster shack with takeaway dishes for riverside picnics. Situated on the Riverwalk in front of the Tom Dixon designed hotel, the terrace will will be […]
Mayfair’s long-standing purveyor of “great steaks” and acclaimed pies – the Guinea Grill – will open for Sunday lunch for the first time since WW2. The quaint pub, “in a back mews in the heart of posh London”, will start serving roasts from 12 June. Owned by Young’s, the Guinea Grill is now under the […]
A restaurant dedicated to the wonders of turkey will open (strangely enough) well before Christmas or Thanksgiving in summer 2016 in Shoreditch. Strut & Cluck, arriving on 21 June, will showcase its hero ingredient, free range turkey, with influences from Eastern Mediterranean home cooking as it arrives in Commercial Street. Turkey has a bit of a reputation […]
Vivek Singh’s Cinnamon Club – London’s most impressive-looking Indian fine dining destination – and Peter Gordon’s “innovative” Providores and Tapa Room in Marylebone will jointly celebrate their 15th birthdays. On Tuesday 21 June, the pair will collaborate to create a unique menu for a one night only, private dining experience at The Cinnamon Club. The six course […]
This winter, Manhattan’s perennially popular Nordic fine dining restaurant Aquavit (est. 1987), with an emphasis on tasting and prix fixe menus, will open a London outpost in Haymarket’s new St James’s Market development. It has been brought to the UK by Philip Hamilton, CEO and founder of Aquavit London, and will offer all-day dining, showcasing the contemporary Nordic […]
From restaurateur frères extraordinaire Claude (Hibiscus W1) & Cedric Bosi (The Charlton Arms, Ludlow) – a new pub-with-rooms close to Esher Common – The Swan Inn launches today (20 May). The brothers have described the menu (overseen by Claude but delivered by head chef Justin West) as ‘English food from a Frenchman’; however it features traditional pub […]
Tom Sellers, the chef behind two Sunday Times top 100 restaurants (Story in Bermondsey and the Lickfold Inn in West Sussex), has launched a new venture in South Ken today (19 May). Restaurant Ours takes over the former site of The Collection (RIP) on Brompton Road. Accessed by a dramatic 30-metre ‘catwalk’ entrance, which was originally […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
