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 […]
Favoured Left Bank haunt of stars like Depardieu and Deneuve, La Cigale Récamier is opening a Knightsbridge offshoot later this month, to be called Les Soufflés. The new restaurant, in Beauchamp Place, will serve up … well you can guess. It’s La Cigale Récamier’s speciality. Estelle Idoux, daughter of Gérard Idoux who founded La Cigale Récamier, […]
Claude Bosi, of Mayfair’s Hibiscus, is to join forces with French chef Yannick Alleno to host two special eight-course dinners later this month. The collaboration is of particular interest as Alleno’s credentials include an impressive 10 year stint as head chef at Parisian palace hotel Le Meurice. Since 2008, however, his main goal seems to […]
London may never have the climate of Andalucia or the Amalfi Coast, but one thing we can replicate (and sometimes outclass) is their deliciously light and summery food. Harden’s brings you 10 top Mediterranean restaurants to sample as the warm weather approaches… Assaggi W2 £72 “The best Italian food anywhere… and that includes Italy!” – […]
Just this week the first ever Quality of Living Index report saw Bristol take the top spot – beating rivals London, Edinburgh and Manchester. So, here’s a look at what’s going on in the West Country as Harden’s highlights Bristol and Bath… NEWS Clifton food festival With its village feel and views of the Suspension […]
If – after recent openings like One Sixty Smokehouse, Q Grill and Avenue – you still haven’t had your fill of the cuisine du jour, you’ll be really pleased to hear a new American pop-up is coming our way. Ruby Jean’s Diner will kick off a run of residencies at The Royal George in Charing Cross Road […]
