AA Gill’s Table Talk column in the Sunday Times is back after a summer hiatus and we discover he’s been in Italy all this time – lucky him. Perhaps the holiday has brought out his softer side as he gifts the reborn Locanda Locatelli at the Hyatt Regency hotel a rare five out of five […]
Oktoberfest – more like Oktobeerfest (right?!) – has begun, but you don’t need to travel to München to enjoy oompah bands, Lederhosen and frothy ales and lagers by the Stein. London has taken this very Bavarian tradition to heart, and restaurants around the capital are celebrating with guest beers, special menus and tankards so large […]
Of all the cheap n cheerful grub in London, Vietnamese is among the best. In Shoreditch – where the High Street meets Kingsland Road – there is almost a mile of warming and inexpensive (thanks BYO!) pho restaurants. And although E2 remains the spiritual home of ‘Little Vietnam’, the cuisine has been successfully exported to […]
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. Trending Restaurants 17-23 September […]
The Good Egg, a street food startup that crowd-funded £250K to acquire a plum spot on Stokey’s Church Street, will open its first standalone site on 25 September. Sign up for The Good Egg newsletter to be sure of an invite to their soft launch, running 25-27 September. Throughout the summer The Good Egg has remained true […]
Angela Hartnett potégé Jessica Simmons pitches up in Kentish Town with her own take on traditional, British steakhouses – as the name would suggest, expect craft beers to go with your beef. Beef & Brew offers a modern interpretation of traditional steakhouse fare, with a focus on provenance and value cuts. The menu eschews loins, ribs […]
Australian-raised Italian brothers Gabriel and Marcello Bernardi bring an Antipodean approach to their motherland’s cuisine to London with Bernardi’s, now open in Marylebone. The 120-cover all-day restaurant and bar on the corner of Seymour Street and Seymour Place, occupies two floors of a restored Victorian property in Portman Village. As well as an open plan dining […]
Allan Pickett, graduate of pretty much every French restaurant in London from the Galvin group to L’Escargot and D&D’s Orrery, has opened his first solo venture in Fitzrovia. Piquet, a 98-cover venue in Newman Street, serves classic Gallic cuisine with a modern twist using British ingredients. Pickett is backed by Bodean’s founder André Blais. On the menu: Roast […]
A new wood-fired pizza place opens within the Green & Fortune Café in the atrium of a King’s Cross arts hub this week. Early bird visitors to Project Pizza in Kings Place can take advantage of a 25% off all pizzas soft launch offer from 22-25 September. The menu will feature classics and regularly changing […]
Kensington’s American dude food emporium, Dirty Bones, expands to a second (more central) location in growing Soho restaurant hub Kingly Court. The new restaurant will open on 28 September and joins the likes of PizzaPilgrims, Señor Ceviche, Jinjuu and, soon, another branch of Dishoom, in this vibrant courtyard just off Carnaby Street. Dirty Bones Soho, […]
