Lunchtime crowding shows this Bloomsbury newcomer has quickly made a name for itself: perhaps because it offers a satisfying – if basic – midday fill-up for just a fiver. But it’s not just economical locals who are making a song and dance about it. A number of press luminaries have hailed this ordinary-looking Indian as […]
Conran Restaurants is dead. Long live D&D London. That’s the clear message broadcast by London’s largest quality restaurant group since its recent (partial) MBO. What’s most interesting is that the two Ds concerned -Des Gunewardena and David Loewi – have even been explicitly distancing themselves from the conveyor-belt style with which, they now admit, the […]
From the upper deck of our City AM limousine, we saw an impressive place we’d not previously noticed. Once a grand banking hall, it looked – with its fancy lighting, smartly-dressed tables and a menu outside – for all the world like the sort of place readers ought to know about. So we hopped off, […]
Organic’ isn’t necessarily the same as ‘green’. The two concepts so often go hand in hand, though, that there’s something discordant about first impressions of this Pimlico palace to organicism, given that it’s so ostentatiously marbled, and so wantonly brightly-lit. Backed as the place is by the helicopter-loving (JC) Bamford family, however, it’s no great […]
Don’t you hate it when you arrive at a restaurant, and feel you’ve invaded some sort of private party? That’s rather how we felt the Saturday lunchtime we visited this new Chelsea Italian. The only other table populated when we arrived was full of espresso-drinking friends-of-the-management doing extravagantly Italian things, like tossing their long blonde […]
It must be hard being Gordon Ramsay. Filming in California one minute. Establishing a flagship NYC restaurant the next. And all the while: maintaining standards at his London restaurant empire; servicing a demanding media profile, on both side of the Pond; and even running the odd marathon. Oh, and now establishing a gastropub empire too, […]
Fickle beasts restaurants. Well, that’s what many people think. But actually, if you ask thousands of people what they think of the establishments they visit – which we do at this time of year – you find that views on restaurants are not, for the most part, random. Most places generate pretty consistent feedback. In […]
Paddington Basin. The Final Frontier. Well, perhaps not quite. But you do feel as though you are boldly going where no one has been before, when you enter central(ish) London’s last major bit of in-fill development. It’s hard to find: the easiest way is to start at Paddington station’s Heathrow platform, and to follow the […]
An outfit called “Superbrands South Africa” is behind this would-be glamorous newcomer, recently arrived – with little fanfare – in what’s effectively a newly-created space, discreetly located between Savile Row and Regent Street. Its wicked wheeze is to offer a menu of “Asian tapas”, which you might suppose to mean: “Chinese dim sum, wok and […]
