Can you have a healthy alcoholic drink? Apparently so – if you believe the current London foodie trends. Just add a dash of cold-pressed juice or a few blended superfoods to your tipple and you don’t need to do ‘Dry January’. Here’s our pick of restaurants serving healthy cocktails… The Lido […]
Look out Sloaney Pony! Next week (January 15) Fulham darling Claude Compton is to open a new gastropub just across the park from Parsons Green’s famous White Horse. The street food vendor-turned-restaurateur made a splash in the area when he opened Claude’s Kitchen above Amuse Bouche in 2013, with Fay Maschler awarding the restaurant a […]
London’s flagship ambassador for Portuguese cuisine, the “refined and beautiful” Portal in Clerkenwell, is hosting a Taste Portugal event later this month. Discover Portuguese produce, like BÃsaro pork, through a special menu created by chef/patron Antonio Correia and former head chef Ricardo Costa (now heading up the kitchen at Porto’s celebrated Yeatman Hotel). Taste Portugal […]
New grill house, West Thirty Six, will open in Golborne Road later this month – the same west London street that already houses John Doe, the charcoal grill spot glowingly reviewed by the Observer’s Jay Rayner on Sunday (4 Jan). The three storey 100-cover restaurant with bar and cocktail lounge, on the former site of the […]
Sick of the North being overshadowed by London food trends, the people behind Filthy Cow burgers say they want to ‘change the face of dining in Manchester’. A pretty tall order for a humble junk food – especially considering the fact that so many London and global burger brands are on the march in Manchester […]
None of our readers go for the décor, but then that’s not what chippies are about. It’s the “spankingly fresh” fish and chips that attract diners to Kerbisher & Malt, the growing chain of chip shops about to launch its fifth London site. Kerbisher & Malt EC1 will open in foodie hub Exmouth Market on […]
Start the New Year with “Breakfast in Bed,” courtesy of Brew in Putney and Harden’s. We’ve teamed up with the new Antipodean café on Lower Richmond Road to bring you the chance to win breakfast for two in one of the restaurant’s Bedouin-inspired beds with exotically coloured blankets and fabrics from Indonesia. Enjoy dishes like Turkish eggs, poached and […]
Well it’s time to say a fond farewell to 2014, and what a year it’s been. Pop-ups selling human flesh burgers and cafes serving nothing but cereal (only in Shoreditch!), technology takeovers as Instagram photos become currency and iPads replace waiters, and some chin-stroking as Gordon Ramsay blamed chef scheme-hatchery for an empty restaurant on opening […]
