This winter, Manhattan’s perennially popular Nordic fine dining restaurant Aquavit (est. 1987), with an emphasis on tasting and prix fixe menus, will open a London outpost in Haymarket’s new St James’s Market development. It has been brought to the UK by Philip Hamilton, CEO and founder of Aquavit London, and will offer all-day dining, showcasing the contemporary Nordic […]
From restaurateur frères extraordinaire Claude (Hibiscus W1) & Cedric Bosi (The Charlton Arms, Ludlow) – a new pub-with-rooms close to Esher Common – The Swan Inn launches today (20 May). The brothers have described the menu (overseen by Claude but delivered by head chef Justin West) as ‘English food from a Frenchman’; however it features traditional pub […]
Tom Sellers, the chef behind two Sunday Times top 100 restaurants (Story in Bermondsey and the Lickfold Inn in West Sussex), has launched a new venture in South Ken today (19 May). Restaurant Ours takes over the former site of The Collection (RIP) on Brompton Road. Accessed by a dramatic 30-metre ‘catwalk’ entrance, which was originally […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
Chef Scott Smith, a protégé of Geoffrey Smeddle – owner of Cupar’s “splendid establishment” The Peat Inn – has taken over the site of The Plumed Horse on Henderson Street in Edinburgh’s culinary neighbourhood, Leith. In the past this pub conversion struck our reporters as rather overhyped (being a holder of one of you know […]
A new café-cum-wine-bar focused on light lunches and seasonal plates that pair well with a glass of vino, has opened not far from Hipster (sorry, we mean Hackney!) Central station. Legs launched on 19 May in Morning Lane. Beneath the restaurant is a ‘makers’ basement’, where the team and selected partners distill vermouth for the bar, cure meats, […]
Those wondering what Henry Harris has been up to since he shuttered Knightsbridge’s Racine last year need wonder no more. The chef will bring his signature, classical French cuisine to Thames-side restaurant-with-rooms, The Dog & Badger, in the village of Medmenham (not far from Marlow). Originally we were informed the venture would open at the […]
The fourth edition of Art16 kicks off at Olympia London later this month, bringing together 100 galleries from over 30 countries and presenting more than 1,000 artworks from 20-22 May (preview 19 May). For 2016, Art16 welcomes a residency by restaurateurs Corbin & King featuring three of their most celebrated restaurants: a trans-Atlantic menu from The Colony […]
On Monday 9 May Harden’s held a memorable event, exclusive to our readers, hosted at the restaurant nominated in this year’s survey as the pinnacle of London gastronomy: Le Gavroche. The evening celebrated our 25th anniversary as London’s foremost restaurant guide and also marked chef Michel Roux Jr’s quarter century at the helm of one of the city’s most distinguished restaurants. […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
