Just weeks after taking on the mantle of executive chef at Strand Dining Rooms, Mark Sargeant had announced he will open his first solo London venture. The restaurateur (who runs Rocksalt and The Smokehouse in Kent) also consults on the menu at the Plum + Spilt Milk in King’s Cross’s Great Northern Hotel. Striking out […]
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 22 May-3 […]
Avid readers will have been holding their breath, conscious that the ‘The Slider Decider‘ – a contest to find London’s best mini burger chef – was held at Docklands gastropub The Gun last night (4 June). Well, now you can stop turning blue -Marylebone’s new Peruvian restaurant Pachamama and its chef Adam Rawson s now undisputed […]
Famed late-night NYC hotspot Hotel Chantelle (popular with starlets and Hollywood types) will open its first international outpost in London, a stone’s throw from Selfridges. The restaurant will reportedly offer French-American fusion fare that combines ‘molecular gastronomy, comfort food and haute cuisine’. Sounds rather trend-chasing to us but perhaps they will be able to pull it off? […]
We feel, as do many of our reporters, that when it comes to the quest for great pizza there’s still no substitute for Franco Manca’s Brixton market original. But, that said, there’s certainly no shortage of eager customers flitting to their other outposts as the mushrooming Neopolitan chain announces further expansion with sites coming soon to […]
Restaurant group Prescott & Conran’s (behind The Boundary & Albion) have relaunched faithful old theatre standby Les Deux Salons with a brand new look. For those of our reporters who felt the place had “gone downhill” of late this will be a welcome piece of news. Staying true to its roots, Prescott & Conran have […]
Hot on the heels of its enormous 250-cover Mumbai-style cafe in King’s Cross, which opened in November last year, Dishoom has announced plans for a fourth London outpost. The “cool” and “different” chain has chosen shopping hub Carnaby Street for its next venture, just a few doors down from Cinnamon Soho on Kingly Street. Over […]
A new Vietnamese street food concept offering ‘Com Binh Dan’ (Working People Food) arrives in the Square Mile dishing up boxes of pho, banh mi and bun noodle salads to go for Moorgate office types. HOP, which comes to us from ex-City worker Paul Hopper, will open in Finsbury Avenue Square on 15 June. HOP (meaning […]
After quitting Berkshire’s L’Ortolan in September last year chef Alan Murchison has pulled out of plans to take over La Bécasse in Ludlow. He posted in a Facebook update: “After much soul searching and many sleepless nights, I have decided not to open another restaurant. Been there, done it. Bit of success and some big failures. Head […]
