Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ roamings, from the week ending 23 June 2019. Darby’s, London SW11 Grace Dent for The Guardian was the first critic to beat a path to Battersea to sample “Robin and Sarah Gill’s new project” near the peculiarly placed new American embassy at Vauxhall (“a gargantuan, purpose-built, space-age fortress… […]
Chef-owner Anna Hansen has decided to depart the Modern Pantry after founding the restaurant ten years ago. Robert Mcleary, who joined shortly after it opened in 2008, and has acted as Head Chef for the last five years, will now become executive chef. While Hansen’s food is too “trendy” and “mediocre” for some reporters, The […]
Taste of London has returned for its 15th year, and will end its run this Sunday (23 June 2019). Rain didn’t dampen the launch night on Wednesday, and the queues were long. You might yet consider such long waits to get inside worthwhile, however, as an ample line up of bars and restaurants, including some […]
Six by Nico, chef Nico Simeone’s three-strong chain, is to launch in England for the first time. The Scottish chef, who was born to Italian parents, is to open in Manchester with a 66-cover site occupying the former Roc & Rye venue in the city centre, not far from happening Spinningfields. The restaurant follows others […]
Luxury Mayfair restaurant Park Chinois is opening a casual brasserie next month. The Chinese restaurant, originally founded by industry heavyweight Alan Yau (although he left in 2016), has long proved divisive to critics. Where it is “opulent”, it is monstrously “OTT”, and where the food might be “delicious”, many believe dishes don’t live up to […]
Martin Williams, CEO of Gaucho and M Restaurants, has offered former employees of Jamie’s Italian the opportunity to interview for roles at his group. All but three Jamie’s Italian branches were closed under a CVA earlier this month, with the remainder bought by the SSP Group, which owns Upper Crust, among other train station lunch […]
Harden’s regular round-up of the restaurant critics’ musings, from the week ending 16 June 2019. Hjem, Northumberland Marina O’Loughlin for The Sunday Times relies on her “spidey sense” to truffle out fabulous new restaurants to tell us about, and this time that “tingling in the fingertip” was spot on. And so it was off to […]
The Langham hotel has opened its (kitchen) doors for the first time in its 153 year old history, launching cookery school ‘Sauce’. Led by the Langham’s executive Chef Chris King, Sauce promises to share the ‘trade secrets’ of the successful Langham restaurants including The Landau, The Wigmore and Palm Court. Classes range from foundation style […]
Irish chef Richard Corrigan will embark on a new restaurant on the fringes of Shoreditch and the City, launching Daffodil Mulligan just south of Old Street tube and Silicon Roundabout. To those recalling his first London venture, Mulligan’s, it’s exciting to see the revival of the name, and his first avowedly Irish-slanted venture in recent […]
