Just can’t wait for the opening of Phil Howard’s new restaurant, Elystan Street in Chelsea, at the end of this month? Well, you can have a sneak pre-taste (and at a significantly lower price) next Saturday, September 17, at Barnes Food Fair. Howard founded Mayfair thoroughbred The Square and ran its “brilliantly focused” (Harden’s Survey) kitchen for […]
Quo Vadis, the Soho veteran rated as “particularly charming” by the Harden’s Survey, reopens on Monday after a six-week nip and tuck which will allow its hip young stablemate Barrafina to bunk up in the same address in Dean Street when its lease in nearby Frith Street comes to an end in November. The re-shuffle of Sam and Eddie […]
Upmarket chicken shacks are taking London by storm, with posh single-dish poultry parlours proliferating across the city. The latest to graduate from market stall to permanent site is Butchies, a buttermilk-fried chicken sandwich concept that opens in Camden this month (September 21) after two successful years of Saturdays at Hackney’s Broadway Market. A day earlier, Chick’n’Sours, opens a […]
Cabotte, a wine-led restaurant celebrating the produce of Burgundy, opens in Gresham Street, in the heart of the City, next Thursday (September 15). It will offer a list of 500 Burgundies and another 100 wines, paired with classic dishes from the region including beef cheek Bourguignon, oeuf meurette and tarte tatin. It’s the brainchild of star sommeliers Xavier […]
⦿ The Observer’s Jay Rayner, perhaps enjoying an August Bank Holiday at the seaside, moseyed happily into Hantverk & Found in Margate, “a tiny cupboard of a fish restaurant, half tiled in the sea green of a Victorian public convenience”. “There are 10 seats up front, plus a few in the garden, and a couple of people in the kitchen knocking out […]
⦿ Monday 12th September, noon-5pm. Win an invitation for two. For the first time next Monday, we will be assembling the great and the good of the capital’s restaurant scene for London’s most authoritative restaurant awards. Join this glittering crowd – from some of its most famous chefs, to the best streetfood vendors. Feast on Exmoor […]
Earl’s Court restaurant Garnier served its last meal this weekend. The very Gallic venture, opened in 2012, and run by Eric & Didier Garnier was highly rated by surveyors for its food (“4” – very good), and would have scored a “5” (Outstanding) for service in the forthcoming 2017 guide. However, it had a “dreadful” […]
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 […]
