Hibiscus in Mayfair and Piquet, just off Oxford Street, are both shutting down in the most prominent restaurant closures so far this year in London. Koffmann’s, the current perch of veteran chef Pierre Koffmann in the Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge, is also closing its doors at the end of December. Piquet, which chef Allan Pickett […]
If you’ve ever fantasized about running your own pop-up restaurant, Swedish flat-pack furnisher Ikea is offering you the chance to do so this month in the heart of hipster central, better known as Shoreditch. For one meal only between September 10 and 25, you can take over the Dining Club in Shoreditch High Street and […]
⦿ The shortlists for the Harden’s London Restaurant Awards 2016 were announced today. The Awards Ceremony itself will take place at The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square on 12 September 2016. The aim is for street-food stall owners and London’s most famous chefs to rub shoulders together to recognise both the budget rising stars and veteran celebrity kitchens of […]
⦿ Jay Rayner reviewed The Classroom, Cardiff – the 5th floor restaurant for catering students of Cardiff and Vale College – and unleashed a twitter storm from defensive Welsh folk. Doubt he’ll be going to Cardiff again any time soon… “I could claim it’s a useful addition to Cardiff’s burgeoning culinary scene but this would […]
As the start of the first university term rolls around parents across the country will be packing their genius offspring off to the hallowed halls of some of the country’s best academic institutions. So parents if you’re planning to take your future graduates out for a ‘last supper’ before you drop them at the varsity, or […]
Like-for-like sales at PizzaExpress fell a disappointing 1.3% for the UK and Ireland in the year ending June 26, the company announced yesterday. PizzaExpress management claims the dip is due to a broader slow down in the casual dining market, but could it just be that their brand is losing its way? Two years ago, it was […]
As Thursday’s National Burger Day (Aug 25) showed, there’s no limit in sight to our appetite for tasty assemblages of grilled minced meat in a bun. Now, in the spirit of Food Network’s ‘Man Versus Food’, the Heliot Steak House at London’s Hippodrome has launched the Big Time Burger – 2 kilos of USDA […]
Westminster City Council has given the green light to a new, 83-bedroom boutique hotel in Covent Garden, backed by Nobu-investor (and Hollywood A-lister) Robert De Niro. The Wellington will incorporate two restaurants (a 270-cover operation split between ground floor and upstairs, and basement 100-seater), plus dining in a private members’ club. The project – the […]
Ah the British seaside. Who needs to hop on a plane to the Côte d’Azur when you can have a stay-cation on our own dear coast (weather permitting, of course). One of the best things about the counties of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall is the restaurants, with fresh fish being the highlight you’d hope in […]
A shift in format is ongoing at this well-known, if remote retreat, defined by its dramatic location on the edge of Snowdonia, and superb views of the RSPB Ynys-hir Nature Reserve. From autumn 2016, the “hall” is to be chopped from its name; and its renown for dining, currently under Gareth Ward (who re-gained its […]
