Still one of our reporters’ favourite cuisines for a cheap eat that packs a big punch. Here are the best restaurants in UK to get an authentic taste of Thai cuisine (according to our survey)… LONDON Sukho Fine Thai Cuisine SW6 “The best Thai food in town” can come as a “surprise” find at […]
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. […]
Exciting news from the world of London cocktail clubs, the Experimental Group (behind Chinatown’s ‘so-hip-you-can-hardly-find-it’ drinking den The Experimental Cocktail Club) is opening a Shoreditch site. The new bar Joyeux Bordel will launch on Curtain Road on 16 April. Young Turk Daniel Willis – now of The Clove Club – is consulting on the music. It’s […]
After launching a second outpost in Whitechapel last year Soho spot Foxcroft & Ginger has opened another East London restaurant – this time a pop-up at Old Street station. The temporary cafe, which will be open for three months, arrived in trendy Shoreditch on 6 April and serves the UK’s first Cruffin (a croissant muffin hybrid). Foxcroft & […]
Brilliantly named Spanish chef and founder of the Ibèrica group, Nacho Manzano, will take to the stoves at the recently opened Ibèrica in Spinningfields, Manchester, later this month. On 27 April, he will prepare a seven course tasting menu alongside group head chef Cèsar Garcia, paired with wines from Manzano’s restaurants in Asturias – Casa Marciel, La […]
The Columbo Group – the folks behind Shoreditch and Camden’s Texan BBQ joints The Blues Kitchen – have just announced a third outpost coming to south London. The group has purchased the Electric Social in Brixton and will develop the site with a view to opening the restaurant and bar in autumn 2015. This will be the third […]
Harden’s, the country’s most authoritative restaurant guide, today (31 March) launched its 25th annual survey of diners. Our London pocket guide and companion volume, Harden’s UK Restaurants, are based on one of the most detailed annual surveys of restaurant-goers in the UK. Over 6,250 people took part last year, contributing some 65,000 reports on more than 3,000 restaurants across […]
Is Peruvian food London’s latest hot craze? The last few months have seen Lima launch Lima Floral in Covent Garden and Pachamama open in Marylebone, followed by Señor Ceviche in Carnaby Street and Amaru in St Katherine Docks. Hot on their heels comes Martin Morales’s eastern outpost of his “vibrant” and “distinctive” Soho restaurant Ceviche, which opened on […]
Many of our reporters feel that it’s time for “a complete overhaul” at old Theatreland favourite, The Ivy. However that once-idolised restaurant’s name still carries sufficient cachet for Caprice Holdings to aim to expand the brand across London. Late last year saw the launch of The Ivy Market Grill, a stone’s throw from the original in Covent Garden, […]
Tickets are now on sale for what will no doubt be the foodie-hipster event of the year. Auction Against Hunger, a fundraising evening benefitting Action Against Hunger, will be held on 21 May in collaboration with Dalston’s Street Feast and boasts a starry line-up of guest chefs. The event kicks off at 6.30pm in Dalston […]
