Richard Caring’s Caprice Group has acquired yet another plum Mayfair spot – formerly the site of the “plush” and “consistent” (if not spectacular) Cantonese and dim sum parlour Princess Garden. The site, on North Audley Street, sits opposite Roka and is equidistant between Bond Street and Marble Arch tube stations, just a stone’s throw from […]
Shucking nearly 1,000 oysters a day, Bentley’s is a British institution for oysters handled by London’s most knowledgeable and skilled team. As the restaurant – owned by Richard Corrigan – enters its centenary, this “classy” Mayfair veteran has teamed up with Harden’s to offer one lucky reader (and their guest) the chance to win an […]
If there’s a National Talk Like a Pirate Day (and there is, it’s 19 September) then National Grilled Cheese Day is fair do’s if you ask us. Here’s eight places (some market stalls and pop-ups, others standalone cafés and restaurants) where you can get a truly awesome grill cheese on 12 April. The street […]
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. […]
As longer evenings in London have finally arrived, Ibérica in Canary Wharf is set to launch its summer terrace La Terraza on Friday 15 April. Located in Cabot Square, La Terraza has its own bar and kitchen offering a range of light bites, summery cocktails, fruity sangrias and other drinks. Dine al fresco with a […]
A steak restaurant and liquor bar dedicated to the humble hanger steak (traditionally known as the ‘Butcher’s Cut’) will open this summer offering cuts from just £10 a pop (or £20 for two people sharing). Hanger comes to Fulham courtesy of first time restaurateur Patrick Falla, who worked at the likes of D&D London before striking […]
One-time righthand man of Simon Rogan, Mark Birchall, sets out to open his own restaurant-with-rooms after nine years at L’Enclume in Cartmel. The former exec chef of Rogan’s celebrated former smithy plans to reopen Moor Hall – a Grade II-listed gentry house in Aughton, Lancashire – in early autumn 2016, after complete redevelopment. The mid-16th Century building will […]
Kansas City-style BBQ joint, Bodean’s, has announced that its seventh hog hotspot will open in Covent Garden on 12 April. The new restaurant will offer 50% off food (lunch and dinner) during its soft launch, 12-14 April (inclusive). The discount is only available for direct bookings via coventgarden@bodeansbbq.com. The group has taken over the former […]
A second restaurant overseen by Cliveden House executive chef André Garrett will launch at the impossibly grand Thames-view country house this Friday (8 April). The Astor Grill is named after the Astor family, who owned the house from the early 1900s. Located in the Duke of Westminster’s former stables, adjacent to the main house, the space will accommodate 38 with an additional seasonal terrace with 40-covers. […]
AA Gill heads out to The Woodford in search of Ben Murphy’s cuisine (a young chef of just 25 who trained under Pierre Koffmann) and finds that The Only Way is Essex is in fact a real way of life and not, as the Sunday Times’s columnist previously thought, simply a ratings-courting fiction. Incidentally he loves […]
