It was the most popular competition we have ever run here at Harden’s (so popular in fact that our server nearly went into meltdown) but there can only be one winner. So let’s all congratulate (and envy) Bill Hebblethwaite from Cornwall who is off to enjoy dinner and a night’s stay at celebrated ‘restaurant-with-rooms‘ Northcote in Langho, Lanchashire. […]
The Editors’ review of Bilbao Berria This Basque-style tapas joint is a welcome break from the usually grimly impersonal restaurants around Haymarket. Grace Dent falls in love with Georgian food at Marani ‘I don’t even like mascarpone that much, or mille feuille, but this is making me quite… emotional’. Vienna waltzes into Marylebone, […]
Here’s a mouth-watering event with an eye-watering price tag. Rosemary Shrager – a one-time Pierre Koffman protégée-turned-celebrity-chef, by way of the ITV jungle – is hosting a week-long ‘celebration of food and wine’ at Château Lou Casteou on the Côte d’Azur, costing £5,650 per couple. Mind you, that does include a six-night stay at the luxury residence, […]
Parisian bistro, Les Gourmets des Ternes, has opened its first overseas outpost in Maida Vale. The establishment will be run by Maximilien Marie, grandson to Francis Marie who opened the celeb-friendly Paris original in 1962. The Formosa Street counterpart has exactly the same décor and menu with a focus on meat, sourced from the family […]
Near Trafalgar Square, a stylish and welcoming offshoot of a Barcelona tapas bar/restaurant – particularly handy in a part of Theatreland where many establishments are still grimly impersonal. Anyone going to the theatre in the vicinity of the Haymarket still has a pretty unappealing lot of restaurants to contend with, so all hail to this […]
Pavilion, a new restaurant, champagne bar and deli owned by the founder of Foxton’s estate agency, Jon Hunt, opens today (30 May). The kitchen is overseen by Adam Simmonds (most recently of Danesfield House in Marlow) who previously worked under big hitters such as Raymond Blanc and Marco Pierre White, as well as putting in stints at The […]
Ramsons was never your ordinary provincial restaurant.  As recently as 2011, the North Western legend was rated 73rd best restaurant in the UK in the Sunday Times Food List (which is powered by the Harden’s survey). Now, the establishment has been reborn as The Venetian House, after proprietor Chris Johnson (who retired on 3 May […]
How would you like the chance to sample premium wines by the glass at over 130 restaurants and bars across the capital? Harden’s is offering five lucky readers the chance to win a pair of wristbands to this year’s London Wine Week, 2-8 June. The week long event offers wine lovers (and novices) the chance […]
Golly! That fabulous Northcote competition proved so popular it nearly sent our servers into meltdown. Please don’t worry though, dear readers, everyone who entered the competition has been safely included in the draw. Despite the fact that some of you may have received error messages telling you our editorial mailbox was full, we actually received all your […]
