The capital is home to nearly half of the country’s best restaurants according to our annual survey, to be published this weekend (October 19) as The Sunday Times 100 Top Restaurants. This year’s list of Britain’s top restaurants marks the first time that there are fewer than 50 from London. Thirty-three restaurants retain their place […]
Opening this autumn on London’’s Notting Hill Gate, The Little Yellow Door is an eclectic new pop-up bar based on a fictional flatshare between friends. Every Friday, The Wandering Chef will invite guests to enjoy innovative dishes like roast chicken wings, potatoes stuffing sausages, bread sauce, gravy and a horseradish & coleman’s mayonnaise for dipping; lentil […]
The ‘Lex Luthor of Mayfair’, Richard Caring, will expand his ever-increasing empire with the opening of The Ivy Market Grill in Covent Garden before Christmas. The restaurant, launching on Henrietta Street, will be a slightly more casual affair than its famous namesake, The Ivy (pictured). Just like the site in Berkeley Square that billionaire restaurateur […]
Harden’s and the San Carlo Restaurant Group are offering one lucky reader the chance to win Venetian-style tapas and a bottle of wine at the brand new Cicchetti, Covent Garden. Just opened this week (8 October), the new Cicchetti outpost is luxuriously decked out with Italian marble and features a small-plates menu of seasonal Italian […]
We are now finalising orders for beautifully customised versions of our restaurant guides, so get your Christmas corporate gifts dilemma wrapped up early – order by 17 October for guaranteed delivery by December. Harden’s guides – either London or national – can an be tailored to your corporate image and are available from as little […]
Fay is back from her hols, and she’s brought some mystic powers The Standard’s critic upgrades the Mondrian’s Sea Containers restaurant to 3* on the basis that improvement is “practically certain”. Quaglino’s to reopen after major refurb D&D will unveil the restaurant’s much-needed new look on 17 October. Grace Dent finds a pleasant surprise […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo, a Twitter mining app that delves into the dark waters of social media to bring you the top trending restaurants in London. From wonderful white truffles at Pollen Street Social to spectacular views from the top of The Shard, courtesy of Oblix, here are the top […]
Once a byword for glamour, but in recent years more likely to provoke words like ‘dinosaur’, ‘tired’ and ‘dated’, Quaglino’s, in St James’s, has finally undergone a major refurb. We’ve reported the place as ‘fading’ for over a decade, to the extent that recent guides have often called for D&D London to do something about it. Perhaps someone […]
The once magnificent Crocker’s Folly in St John’s Wood, which was rescued from an uncertain fate by the Maroush Group, will reopen after a complete makeover on 25 October. Diners who want to get a sneak peek at the Victorian gin palace’s restoration can book now for a special soft launch offer of 50 per cent off their food, […]
The fine dining powerhouse that is Martin Wishart will expand his Caledonian empire this November with the opening of his fourth restaurant, at Malmaison Glasgow, housed in a former church in the city’s ‘Merchant City’. The acclaimed chef regularly wins praise from our reporters for his “faultless” cooking at Cameron House Hotel in Loch Lomond, […]
