Occupying a Dickensian fronted pub opposite the iconic Tea Building in Shoreditch is a new all-day restaurant and whisky bar with a subtle hint of the Orient. Bull in a China Shop is the second project from brothers Stephen and Simon Chan, owners of The Drunken Monkey, a Chinese dim sum parlour and cocktail bar […]
Have you been dying to try the food at The Anglesea Arms since it reappeared on the London restaurant scene last year? Well, here is your chance to win dinner for two and a bottle of wine at the Hammersmith stalwart, which reopened in mid-2014 much to the relief of Brackenbury Village regulars. Now under new […]
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. […]
Everybody loves noodles. They’re slurp-tastic and slippery, healthy and filling, spicy and warming. Sure every once in a while you hit yourself in the eye with some hot broth, or look suspiciously like someone learning to eat for the first time as you ram that ramen into your mouth, but it’s all worth it. March […]
St John’s Bakery Room in Bermondsey’s trendy Maltby Street will begin a weekday service from 4 March. Originally just a Saturday and Sunday fixture at Maltby Street’s once underground (now distinctly more mainstream) market, the bakery will open 6-10pm throughout the week. The St John’s folks have installed a new bar, devised a lengthy wine […]
Yet another gourmet burger brand is pitching up in the capital, arriving in Fitzrovia’s Percy Street straight from Paris on 10 March. With the other existing branches of Big Fernand being in Lille and Lyons, London must have seemed an obvious next step. To celebrate the launch the restaurant will hand out 100 free hamburgés daily to the most […]
A well executed pie is not only a thing of great beauty, but a British staple, so it seems only right to sing this humble dish’s praises. Next week 2-8 March the country celebrates British Pie Week, seven days dedicated to flaky pastry, meaty fillings and lashings of good gravy. Here are our top five […]
Street food van Bleecker Street Burger – considered by many meat aficionados to be London’s top burger bar – has launched its first permanent site in Old Spitalfields Market. The team behind the food truck opened the restaurant today (Thursday 26 February), giving away 400 limited edition t-shirts to the first customers. Try their double aged beef […]
More American dude food in London as a second outpost of fried chicken specialist Joe’s Southern Kitchen comes to Kentish Town. Brand owners, Maxwell’s Restaurant Group, have confirmed that the site will open on 30 March. Like the Covent Garden original, the new restaurant will serve fried chicken, mac ‘n’ cheese, and cocktails. Breakfast and […]
Two very different restaurants, 700 miles apart, were named joint winners of the Sustainable Restaurant of the Year award yesterday (23 February) in London. Daylesford Organic, which operates three organic cafés in the Cotswolds and London, and The Captain’s Galley (Britain’s most northerly mainland restaurant) received their awards from Raymond Blanc, president of the Sustainable Restaurant […]
