After food critics in Manchester proved they know their oven from their elbow, it’s the turn of the capital’s restaurant reviewers to do the same. Bill Knott of the Financial Times, Tracey MacLeod from the Independent and The Guardian’s Jay Rayner will all take part in the London leg of Too Many Critics, a series of events […]
How would you (and a friend) like to discover the subtleties of Cab Sav, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc at an exclusive wine tasting course? Courtesy of 28-50 Wine Workshop & Kitchen, one lucky Harden’s reader and their guest can attend the restaurant’s London wine school with sommelier Ronan Sayburn. In addition to expert instruction, you […]
We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Brunch on the other hand is a lazy, leisurely feast, king of hangover cures, waster of Saturday and Sunday mornings. But we love them both, for so many reasons…eggs, Bloody Mary, sourdough bread, mimosas, bacon… we could go on. So whether your next […]
Recent news that 64 Degrees, Brighton, has plans to bring its particular brand of ‘social dining’ to the capital got us thinking more generally about what’s happening in London-on-Sea. So, this week, we shine a spotlight on Brighton…… NEWS 64 Degrees Possibly the most exciting restaurant ever to hit Brighton, according to Marina O’Laughlin, 64 Degrees […]
Knightsbridge, revisited We take a trip to the newly relaunched Toto’s and find the service is just a little off. Grace Dent finds she can’t quite stomach Hackney’s Cat & Mutton “It has the feel of a Spaghetti Western bar-cum-brothel, there’s no reservations and the food arrives in no particular order.” Primeur brings […]
Tom Harris and Jon Rotheram – alumni of such noble institutions as St John hotel (now One Leicester Street), Nobu and Fifteen – are hoping to set up an ambitious Hackney gastropub… with your money, if you wish. Their aim is to purchase a freehold public house and dining room through personal investment, crowd funding […]
A contemporary-style update of a traditional Knightsbridge Italian; a good quality, if pricey, all-rounder, where service can sometimes seem jarringly formal. In a city without much in the way of living restaurant history, ‘Chelsea Italian’ is one of the few styles you could write a whole book about. In fact, someone did – it’s called […]
TV chef John Burton-Race returns to the London restaurant scene for the first time in 12 years with The New Angel in Notting Hill. Opening today (7 May), the establishment has the same name as his Dartmouth hotel, which famously closed in 2007 while Burton-Race was in Australia taking part in ‘I’m a celebrity…get me […]
There’s something in the air in London at the moment. Is it spring? An unreasonably high pollen count? Saharan sand? Something certainly seems to have whipped up a frenzy of restaurant activity, with today (6 May) alone seeing the official opening of Fera at Claridge’s (though it seems they won’t really be fully open ’til Thursday), Beast, Noodle House, TING […]
Perched atop a City hotel, a new restaurant and rooftop bar, Galadari, will open in September. Occupying the eighth floor of the Crowne Plaza, by Blackfriars Bridge, it will boast views of the Shard, St Paul’s and Tate Modern. The restaurant features a Japanese kushiyaki grill offering steaks (with a choice of flavoured smoke) and seafood, […]
