Marcus Wareing will reopen his much-acclaimed restaurant at Berkeley Hotel on Monday (24 March) with a new look, new menu and a new name. Now emphatically called MARCUS, the dining room has received a £1.4 million makeover in an attempt to create a more casual environment. Wareing says he wants the updated restaurant to have […]
Dev Biswal, the chef who champions ‘curry free’ Indian food at The Ambrette restaurants in Margate and Rye – which inspire many very positive survey reports – has plans to expand his business across the South East. In an interview with Restaurant Magazine, the restaurateur said he has two new sites opening this year, in […]
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, […]
