Chancellor knocks penny off a pint – an Amstel in Clapham will now only cost £5.94… (BBC News) Fay gets ‘happy as a clam’ in Camberwell (Evening Standard) Bloody London food festival Meatopia returning to smoke out Tobacco Dock (Harden’s) Gourmand-Leeds: Is North challenging London’s foodie reign? (The Telegraph) Shock report: canned foods don’t […]
The first chefs have been announced for this autumn’s Meatopia food festival at Tobacco Dock, and the lineup reads like a roll call of those responsible for London’s current craze for BBQ and all things meat. Hakwsmoor’s Richard Turner, The Lockhart’s Brad McDonald, and Ross Clarke from Dirty Bones will be participating in the festival, […]
A pretty (but quite noisy) pub dining room, right by Borough tube, offering an enjoyable menu that’s not especially ambitious, but interesting enough to be thoroughly enjoyable. The dining room of the Trinity public house, next door to Borough tube station, has recently been relaunched with its own name and its own identity. Be aware, […]
A quirky Mayfair novelty, this family-owned Georgian restaurant (on the former site of Tempo, RIP) offers a charmingly old-fashioned, if not especially polished, experience, quite at odds with its location. We all have certain expectations of the styling of a new Mayfair restaurant nowadays. So it was a bit of a shock to see the […]
A relaunch of a spacious St James’s business-restaurant of long standing, where the cuisine has now taken on a decidedly American twist; on our lunchtime visit, however, the whole experience seemed surprisingly devoid of character, in spite of the best efforts of the charming staff. We were rather excited to go back to the Avenue, […]
The latest member of Russell Norman’s group of Soho Italian small-plate specialists; although already the recipient of at least one ‘rave’ review, it struck us as fairly unremarkable. Russell Norman, as we all now know, is the very incarnation of the spirit of the age. He is what Sir Terence Conran was to the ’90s, […]
A Gallic/American brasserie from the Novikov stable; it offered solid standards, but at prices that seem to be justified mainly by its Mayfair location. Just a few years ago, Harden’s (somewhat inadvertently) made quite a news splash by pointing out that restaurants at the top of the London market had breached the £100-a-head barrier. How […]
