With a name so logical it would make Dr Spock proud, the ‘Nobu Hotel Shoreditch in London’ will arrive in early 2016. From none other than Nobu Matsuhisa, the 156-bedroom hotel will be located in Willow Street, reports Caterer and Hotelkeeper. The hotel will feature a restaurant with menus developed by Matsuhisa, banqueting and meeting […]
A supposedly informal revamp of Marcus Wareing’s grand Knightsbridge hotel dining room; the food on our lunchtime visit was enjoyable and quite good value, but the style of service remains as fundamentally ancien-régime as ever, and some may find the atmosphere oppressive. Marcus is the new name for Marcus Wareing. Not the man of course, […]
London finally has an American restaurant big enough to represent the ‘Land of the Huge’ as the 500-cover Blues Kitchen is open in Shoreditch. An outpost of the original Camden venture of the same name, the restaurant has twice the capacity of, say, Brasserie Zédel. The restaurant, open all day, features a Texan BBQ menu including […]
London finally has an American restaurant big enough to represent the ‘Land of the Huge’ as the 500-cover Blues Kitchen is open in Shoreditch. An outpost of the original Camden venture of the same name, the restaurant has twice the capacity of, say, Brasserie Zédel. The restaurant, open all day, features a Texan BBQ menu including […]
Northcote – or Northcote Manor as it was once called – has long been celebrated as probably the best restaurant in the North West. Indeed, it’s the only North Western restaurant-with-rooms (excluding the Lakes, obviously) with a real reputation outside the region. After a year or renovations, the dining room has just been given an […]
Another burger chain on a mission to plant its flag all over London. Isn’t that market as saturated as the fat in the patties it peddles? Perhaps not. Burger Craft – a little chain that started out life in the Green Man pub, Paddington – has already grown to three locations and a fourth will open […]
After food critics in Manchester proved they know their oven from their elbow, it’s the turn of the capital’s restaurant reviewers to do the same. Bill Knott of the Financial Times, Tracey MacLeod from the Independent and The Guardian’s Jay Rayner will all take part in the London leg of Too Many Critics, a series of events […]
How would you (and a friend) like to discover the subtleties of Cab Sav, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc at an exclusive wine tasting course? Courtesy of 28-50 Wine Workshop & Kitchen, one lucky Harden’s reader and their guest can attend the restaurant’s London wine school with sommelier Ronan Sayburn. In addition to expert instruction, you […]
We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Brunch on the other hand is a lazy, leisurely feast, king of hangover cures, waster of Saturday and Sunday mornings. But we love them both, for so many reasons…eggs, Bloody Mary, sourdough bread, mimosas, bacon… we could go on. So whether your next […]
