You’ve read all our news and reviews of Edinburgh’s best restaurants, now here’s your chance to try one for yourself. Harden’s has teamed up with celebrated chef Tony Singh to offer a three course dinner for two and a bottle of wine at his new West Linton restaurant, The Old Bakehouse. Situated in a picture-perfect village […]
With the Scottish independence referendum imminent, who knows what the future may hold? Perhaps the next time we travel to visit our northern neighbours we will need to go armed with passports? Edinburgh is a particular highlight for those who love eating out, being the best-provided dining conurbation outside the Smoke. So just in case […]
The Editors’ review of Strand Dining Rooms It’s a handy enough place for breakfast or tea and coffee but we’re not sure it persuades as a lunch/dinner destination. Ms Maschler enjoys ‘ethereal’ and ‘extraordinary’ food at Wormwood The Evening Standard critic is back from her hiatus and thrilled to discover a new Notting Hill […]
Gosh, London really must be running out of prime property – new restaurant WC opened not just underground, but also on the site of a former public toilet. Founders Andy Bell and Jayke Mangion have been toiling away for two years to save this derelict 100-year-old listed loo at Clapham Common tube station, which has reopened as […]
Mere mortals may soon be able to bag a table at the smoking hot Chiltern Firehouse as the Marylebone restaurant is now open for breakfast and lunch. There’s been a lot of conjecture as to when (and if) Nuno Mendes might extend his menu to include anything other than dinner, so now let us all collectively […]
Soho hotel and restaurant One Leicester Street (formerly St John Chinatown) has been sold for the second time in just two years. The seemingly problematic site, once part of the legendary St John group, went into administration in 2013 but was rescued at the eleventh hour by Loh Lik Peng of the Unlisted Collection, which […]
A handy destination for visitors and locals alike, this British brasserie on the corner of Trafalgar Square is open all day and ideal for breakfast, coffee or tea; on our early-days visit, however, its attractions as a lunch or dinner destination were less persuasive. The Wolseley has a lot to answer for. When the Piccadilly […]
A new café/bar/restaurant offering ‘eclectic modern European cuisine with an Asian twist’ has just opened in Shoreditch. Penkul & Banks, serving tapas and sharing plates (what else?), takes its name from two furniture craftsmen whose Victorian workshops were sited at 77 Curtain Road. Of course more recently the site was home to a manly-menued place […]
How often have we all grumbled that a meal out now costs the same as a small car? Well, if you’d like to go back to the good old days of reasonably priced dishes, you won’t want to miss Moshi Moshi rolling back the clock. London’s original kaiten (conveyor belt) restaurant in Liverpool Street Station […]
All day dining in the City. That’s the theme of this new Ligurian (Genovese) spot, which opened on 4 July in a residential skyscraper, The Heron. Open from 7am-11pm daily, Caterina55 offers eat-in, take-away and delivery options – especially handy for those in the flash new pads above. To keep up to date with […]
