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 […]
The Editors’ review of One Kensington Tamarind group’s latest offering is already firing on all cylinders. Simon Rogan goes wild at Claridge’s The speculation is over, Rogan’s restaurant will be called Fera (wild in Latin). The rise of ‘food porn’ Chefs rail against the fashion for photographing food. Ramsay returns to his […]
Many chefs like to think their next restaurant will be ‘historic’, but when that chef already runs two of the ‘World’s 50 Best’ restaurants, there’s a chance he might be right. So news that Thomas Keller, the man behind New York’s Per Se and the French Laundry in California, is considering opening a new restaurant in […]
We’re seeing something… it’s a vision of bearded and bespectacled hipsters flocking in their droves in search of foodie nirvana. It can only mean one thing – Psychic Burger has opened a second London location. The founders are bringing their “down and dirty, ‘Rock an’ Drool’ approach” to cooking to the Old Queen’s Head in […]
It seems that after closing all but one of his Union Jacks restaurants earlier this year, Jamie Oliver needs a holiday. And he’s decided to take another of his restaurant concepts with him. From spring 2015, two Royal Caribbean cruise ships will feature onboard outposts of Jamie’s Italian, with the first opening on the ‘Quantum […]
A grand Kensington brasserie on the former site of Zaika (RIP); it was already firing on all cylinders on our first-week visit. Goodness Gracious Me! Remember the TV skit where some Indians (in India) speculate on the virtues of ‘going out for an English’? Perhaps it planted a seed in the mind of someone at […]
