Here’s a smokin’ hot new addition to London’s Bankside – Porky’s BBQ spot, specialising in American-style smoked meats, opened its second site in Globe Walk on 6 June. The restaurant uses a traditional Memphis grill and Oklahoma smokers to slow-cook American barbecue dishes, such as dry-rubbed ribs and tips, smoked over hickory wood and served with Porky’s homemade […]
Gordon Ramsay is set to launch his first heart-of-the-West-End operation later this year, with the opening of the Heddon Street Kitchen. Modelled on Ramsay’s City outpost Bread Street Kitchen – not, it must be said, much favoured by Harden’s reporters – it will be located on the former site of a Living Room bar and restaurant, […]
Fancy some Brazilian food during this World Cup? Harden’s has teamed up with Luiz Hara (AKA The London Foodie), a Brazilian-born blogger, to bring you a list of the best places to get a taste of the real thing without leaving London. Although it does seem that there’s still scope for some really consistent Brazilian […]
The Editors’ review of Ham Yard The food is the usual Firmdale Hotel formula, but the setting is really something special. Beast has Grace Dent roaring and raving “Look away now if London decadence leaves you boggle-eyed”, warns ES’s critic. Get a free glass of bubbly at the new Hawksmoor The Knightsbridge outpost […]
Yard Sale Pizza has just opened in Clapton. And from now until Sunday (8 June) they’ve pledged to giveaway 300 free pizzas from their eat-in and take-away restaurant on Lower Clapton Road. On the menu are sourdough-base pizzas topped with fresh raw tuna, anchovy and caper paste and rocket; or ‘The Holy Pepperoni’ – Cobble Lane pepperoni, Napoli […]
Remarkable in location and setting – just two mins from Piccadilly Circus, and with a large terrace – the latest Firmdale Hotel offers the group’s usual dining formula; the establishment’s all-round charms, though, may well make it a real destination. You’ve got to hand it to Tim & Kit Kemp, the Londoners who’ve built up […]
Chris Corbin and Jeremy King’s newest venture, Fischer’s, a Viennese café in Marylebone, is now open. The High Street site was once home to an ambitious Italian, Cotidie, and before that, Café Luc – both establishments that seemed to fail, in part, because they got their pricing wrong. So when the Wolseley-et-al duo acquired the […]
