We’re offering one lucky Harden’s reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to the most pork-tastic event London has to offer. The Dingley Dell Pork ‘Flying Visit with The Dirty Dozen’ charity BBQ competition takes place on Sunday 27 September at The Leather Bottle in Earlsfield, and features 12 dishes, 12 chefs and […]
It’s September once again, which means three things – school is back in session, the days are already getting shorter and feeling colder, and its native oyster season. To celebrate that last fact we’ve got the definitive list of restaurants and bars serving the best bivalves in London and across the UK, according to our […]
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 10-16 […]
The tyre men have today (16 September) announced new entries and deletions for the 2016 Michelin Guide ahead of the book’s release later this month. Perhaps the most surprising award was to Umu, a blingy Mayfair Japanese, which was bumped up to a two star rating. It was first awarded a star in 2005 after its […]
Former Heston Blumenthal protégé Christopher White has left the Fat Duck to open his first solo venture The White Spoon in Cheltenham on 18 September. His new restaurant will be inspired by his time with the Merlin of molecular gastronomy but offers a more ‘approachable and laid-back’ (and considerably cheaper) menu. Having worked at both the Fat […]
This perennially popular small chain of cool Mumbai-style cafés is set to open Dishoom Carnaby on Kingly Street in Soho this October. As with the group’s other three outposts (King’s Cross, Shoreditch and Covent Garden) the restaurant will provide a surprisingly genuine homage to the old Irani cafés of Bombay. It includes a Permit Room […]
On the roof of one of West London’s most iconic buildings Storeys – a pop-up food experience from event production company Afternoon Delight LDN – has been extended through the summer and into the autumn. It can be found on top of the former Beeb Car Park at Television Centre in White City from Friday-Sunday with […]
If the hipster-driven dude food revolution was prompted by the 2008 recession then, according to Giles Coren at The Times, the arrival of Sackville’s in Mayfair (an opulently expensive ode to beef and truffles) is a sure sign the hard times are well and truly over… “There would be exposed brick, bespoke cocktails and an […]
This week, during the launch of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) Food Made Good campaign, the Newman Street Tavern’s chef/patron Peter Weeden whipped up some truly spectacular scrambled eggs. They were so good in fact that Raymond Blanc (president of the SRA) vowed to teach the technique to his chefs at Le Manoir. And here […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) – a not-for-profit Harden’s has long endorsed – has launched a new campaign called Food Made Good led by Chevalier in the Légion d’Honneur, and professional Frenchman Raymond Blanc. The aim is to educate diners about sustainability, help people find truly ‘good’ food (ie food that is good for you, good […]
