From the indomitable Jason Atherton stable comes a new wine shop offering counter and table service tapas, opening today (9 June). Probably this country’s most consistent celebrity chef – from Pollen Street Social to City Social – Atherton’s restaurants are always a safe bet for “flavour popping” cuisine and “incredibly attentive” service, as far as our 2015 survey reporters are […]
This summer, S.Pellegrino will partner with Theo Randall (he of Mayfair’s Intercontinental hotel) and Phil Howard – chef at expense accounter restaurant of choice The Square – to bring an Italian fine dining pop-up to London. Live in Italian, Live from London will fuse Italian and British cuisine for a three course menu served across two separate evenings in […]
Last week El Celler de Can Roca regained its spot on top of the World’s 50 Best list and if you don’t already have a reservation at the Girona restaurant it’s probably already too late. But there is way you can sample some of the Roca brothers cuisine without leaving London. Ibérica has gathered together […]
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 […]
