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 […]
An all-day dining spot offering seasonal British bistro fare with a French-Italian twist will arrive in Parsons Green; from the team behind Shot Espresso and Ice & Slice. The 40-cover Bistrò by Shot will be headed up by Fabrice Meier (formerly of Trinity and One-O-One, Sheraton Park Tower). The seasonal menu includes breakfast classics like: Eggs Benedict, French […]
The Indy’s Tracey Mcleod heads to Marlow to review Tom Kerridge’s new venture, Coach It doesn’t take bookings and “like the new-look Tom Kerridge himself, is much smaller than you’re expecting” but the food doesn’t disappoint and would be worth waiting for. Telegraph critic Zoe Williams says Great Portland Street’s Portland is ‘a breath of […]
Branching out further from its “crowded” but “happy” Borough Market original, Wright Brothers is set to open its fourth London restaurant in June. The seafood specialist, known among our reporters for its “oysters zinging with the taste of the sea”, has snapped up the former site of La Bouchée on South Ken’s Old Brompton Road. La Bouchée may […]
Josh and Holly Eggleton, the owners of the “lovely” and “scenic” Pony & Trap in Chew Magna, have launched a tearoom and fish café. Salt & Malt opened on 2 March, just a stone’s throw from the family’s lauded country pub. On the site of a former tea shop, the restaurant now boasts a fish and chip takeaway […]
With the Holi festival coming up on 6 March we thought we’d bring our readers the chance to win dinner for four with wine at one of London’s most colourful Indian restaurants. Holi is an ancient Hindu religious festival celebrating colour – so what better time to visit the vibrantly refurbished Kishmish in Fulham? Sitting […]
News reaches us that the one-time enfant terrible of British cooking, Marco Pierre White, is to reanimate his Wheeler’s brand in London by moving into the City’s Threadneedles Hotel in March. We wouldn’t like to speculate as to why the face of Knorr stock cubes is choosing to shack up with yet another hotel group […]
Last year, much-loved neighbourhood pub The Anglesea Arms reopened – to the great relief of Brackenbury Village regulars. Now the Hammersmith gastroboozer has launched an all-new bar menu, putting its own stamp on traditional British bar food. On the menu: Bacon pickled duck eggs and beer-brined gloucester old spot ham remoulade. Although now under new ownership, […]
TV chef Hardeep Singh Kohli has opened Scotland’s ‘first craft beer and curry bar’ in Leith’s thriving culinary scene. VDeep restaurant takes over the former home of The Vintage pub in Henderson Street. The neighbourhood already boasts a number of much-lauded restaurants, including Tom Kitchin’s The Kitchin (which provides “real fireworks” according to Harden’s reporters), […]
