Remarkable in location and setting – just two mins from Piccadilly Circus, and with a large terrace – the latest Firmdale Hotel offers the group’s usual dining formula; the establishment’s all-round charms, though, may well make it a real destination. You’ve got to hand it to Tim & Kit Kemp, the Londoners who’ve built up […]
Chris Corbin and Jeremy King’s newest venture, Fischer’s, a Viennese café in Marylebone, is now open. The High Street site was once home to an ambitious Italian, Cotidie, and before that, Café Luc – both establishments that seemed to fail, in part, because they got their pricing wrong. So when the Wolseley-et-al duo acquired the […]
A former Mark Hix protégé heads up this Clerkenwell newcomer, and it shows. Modern art prints, murals and neon signage from the likes of Damien Hirst, Chris Bracy and Kid Acne adorn the walls of Ask For Janice, an all-day dining affair in Long Lane. Upstairs is the coffee bar and restaurant, while downstairs is […]
Remember the days when all airports had to offer in the dining department was Burger King? Maybe a café serving sandwiches and what might be considered coffee, if you were lucky. Well now, in the steps of Gordon Ramsay, Mr Molecular Gastronomy himself, Heston Blumenthal, has launched an outpost at Heathrow Terminal 2. The Perfectionist’s […]
The ‘kitchen table’ sometimes seem to have become almost an industry standard. The latest restaurant to install a counter where foodies can perch and watch the chefs at work is the Merchants Tavern in Shoreditch. Launched by Angela Hartnett, Neil Borthwick, Dominic Lake and Patrick Clayton-Malone, in October last year, the restaurant’s Kitchen Counter will […]
Food and spice company Arabica have traded in their market stall to launch a bricks and mortar restaurant, opening on 23 June. Founder James Walters started out selling a small range of mezze at Borough Market 14 years ago, but he says the menu at his new 80-cover establishment will be more extensive. Serving lunch, dinner […]
To celebrate the launch of its first restaurant, crowd-funded takeaway concept Pizza Rossa will give away 300 free pizza slices this Friday (6 June). Its signature ‘al taglio’ (square) pizzas will be served from the company’s new home in Leadenhall Market in the City.The pizza place plans to open two more sites in the City, […]
It was the most popular competition we have ever run here at Harden’s (so popular in fact that our server nearly went into meltdown) but there can only be one winner. So let’s all congratulate (and envy) Bill Hebblethwaite from Cornwall who is off to enjoy dinner and a night’s stay at celebrated ‘restaurant-with-rooms‘ Northcote in Langho, Lanchashire. […]
The Editors’ review of Bilbao Berria This Basque-style tapas joint is a welcome break from the usually grimly impersonal restaurants around Haymarket. Grace Dent falls in love with Georgian food at Marani ‘I don’t even like mascarpone that much, or mille feuille, but this is making me quite… emotional’. Vienna waltzes into Marylebone, […]
