Ex-Spuntino head chef Rachel O’Sullivan has opened a deli, Pinch Pantry, off Dalston Lane (just round the corner from Steve Parle’s new Rotorino). The former Polpo Group chef is working with Venus McMahon (formerly of local dine ’n’ wine spot, L’Entrepot). To keep up to date with all the latest London goings-on and news […]
St Paul’s Road in Islington is becoming quite the hub of restaurant activity. First Trullo (founded by River Café alumnus Jordan Frieda) moved in, then LECOQ (from Salt Yard Group founder Sanja Morris and her sister Anna) set up camp beside it, and soon a new artisan café, Sawyer & Gray, will open next door. Details […]
Popular Mexican chain Benito’s Hat has opened a Leadenhall Street outpost to cater for the City crowd. The latest branch features electronic ordering to (hopefully) reduce queues during the lunch hour rush. Punters can order food via an app and collect in-house or have it delivered to their office. Like its other five London establishments, Benito’s Hat’s […]
In a rather timely report (it being Earth Awareness Month and all), the House of Lords’ EU Committee has called for urgent action on food waste. This is not a little local issue. Global food waste’s carbon footprint is twice that of America’s trucks and automobiles! The Lord’s committee now wants the European Commission to […]
From celebrity divorces to Barack Obama backing gay marriage, Twitter is the place to break news these days. Follow Harden’s to be on the cutting edge of the restaurant industry. We’ve been on Twitter for several years now and have acquired a healthy following (26,225 followers to be exact). Reporting on everything from Bethnal Green’s […]
Chicken in London is having a moment, so Harden’s thought it was time to lay out some of the capital’s top poultry places… LE COQ N1 £40 Owned by sisters Sanja (a founder of the Salt Yard Group) and Anna Morris, LE COQ serves up a weekly-changing menu with influences from around the world. […]
Were you aware it’s Earth Awareness month? Harden’s has teamed up with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) to bring you a list of some of the UK’s top places to eat ethically. Save the planet while also tantalising your tastebuds… Grain Store N1 £50 Harden’s says: “An exciting new venture for Bruno Loubet and his […]
Near Camden Lock, an edgy-but-smart American bar/diner de luxe; it offers good standards across the board, but not – to our mind – any particular reason to seek the place out. Visit the website for this anonymously-named American-style grill-restaurant, and what are you supposed to think? Edgy? Anarchic? Very, well, Camden Town? Or, if a […]
Foxcroft & Ginger, Soho, launches its second outpost, in Whitechapel, today (3 April). The new 70-cover restaurant occupies the former site of Wickham’s department store in Mile End Road, which – as all readers will doubtless know – was once regarded as the ‘Harrod’s of the East’. Foxcroft & Ginger’s new operation includes a 24-hour […]
