Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ meals, from the week ending 8 September 2019. Wun’s, London W1 For this week’s review, Jay Rayner for The Observer was tempted “to shove just five words at you and leave it at that: sugar skin Iberico char siu”. “The expansion of the Chinese food experience in the […]
Food charity Hospitality Against Hunger is launching a new fundraiser event on September 11. Love Food Streat Festival will be hosted on Flat Iron Square, and will kickstart the annual Love Food Give Food campaign, which works to end child hunger around the world. More than 400 restaurants across the UK will add £1 to […]
26 Grains’ Alex Hely-Hutchinson will open Stoney Street in Borough Market in October. Stoney Street, named after the street it will call its home, will be open from breakfast through to dinner and – an increasingly tired breath as the buzzwords come again – will “focus on simple seasonal dishes with a carefully considered, produce […]
Hospitality giant The Restaurant Group has confirmed plans to axe 150 sites as part of a restructuring process. The company, which in 2018 acquired Wagamama for £559m, also owns family brands such as Frankie & Benny’s, Chiquito, and Garfunkel’s. But The Restaurant Group announced a £87.7m pre-tax loss for the first half of this year […]
Belzan founder Sam Grainger, and Nud Dudhia from Breddos Tacos have joined forces to open a Mexican taqueria in Liverpool. Madre will be a 100-site restaurant on Royal Albert Dock – also the location of the Barrie brothers’ new site – and plans are afoot to launch in November. Madre, which means ‘mother’ in Spanish, […]
Bristol chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias has announced his new restaurant at the Standard hotel in King’s Cross will be called Decimo, and will blend Spanish and Mexican flavours. Decimo, on the top floor of the hotel, will open on October 10 and will be the chef’s first foray into London. Sanchez-Inglesias made him name at his […]
Harden’s has today released the final shortlist for this year’s definitive London Restaurant Awards, sponsored by Gusbourne, which takes place on 9 September in the ballroom of The Langham, London. Nominations for the awards are derived statistically from Harden’s 29-year-old annual survey of UK restaurant-goers. This year 7,500 people contributed 50,000 nominations within the categories […]
Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 1 September 2019. Kala, Manchester Jay Rayner for The Observer headed to Manchester to try out the latest jewel in Gary Usher’s crown. He wasn’t welcome, of course – when Usher opened his very first restaurant, Sticky Walnut in […]
Speciality coffee roasters Ozone will open an all-day restaurant and cafe in Bethnal Green in October. The New Zealand group said the new 100-cover space “will stay true to its Kiwi roots” and will bring “a dedication to provenance” as well as “celebrate local suppliers and their produce.” Ozone said it hopes its second site […]
Chef Merlin Labron-Johnson is opening a restaurant in Somerset, where customers will find food “sourced from friends”, “fine cider and lovely wine”. The chef announced the farm-to-table restaurant on Instagram, where he described a “tiny” restaurant focused on hyper-local ingredients. “I am very excited to announce that in November I will be opening a tiny […]
