Palm Court, The Ritz W1 From £60 pp Afternoon Tea is served daily at 11.30 am, 1.30 pm, 3.30 pm, 5.30 pm, and 7.30 pm. Loved by some (“the afternoon tea is unparalleled!”), but this famous and elegant chamber is to many disappointing (“dry, mechanically-cut sandwiches with fillings I had not seen since a wartime […]
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. […]
What a short memory the food community in London seems to have. There has been a huge amount of press trumpeting the arrival of ‘London’s first dessert restaurant’ as Café Royal on Regent Street prepares to relaunch The Café in March as a venue for sweet treats only. Does nobody recall the Pudding Bar on […]
In the wake of Channel 4 documentary Tricks of the Restaurant Trade which claimed to be ‘lifting the lid’ on industry secrets, Harden’s – the survey-driven restaurant guide and review site – asked consumers what they really think about outsourced food preparation. The Ch 4 programme, presented by Simon Rimmer along with Kate Quilton and […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association has announced its shortlist for the People’s Favourite category at the Food Made Good Awards 2016. Among the nominees is the staff canteen at one of the West Country’s best known dairies; a Hertfordshire park café with a 10-strong team of volunteers with learning difficulties; an organic, vegetarian tearoom in the Lake […]
Artist Damien Hirst has revived his Notting Hill venture Pharmacy (long RIP) as Pharmacy 2 at his gallery in Vauxhall. The day-time canteen and evening restaurant at Newport Street Gallery, opened in collaboration with Hirst’s long-time mate and supporter Mark Hix (The Tramshed, Hix Oyster & Chop House etc) on 23 February. The menu reflects […]
AA Gill reviews Notting Hill’s new vegetarian restaurant Tiny Leaf in the Sunday Times but decides London still needs a decent veggie venue “It’s the good intentions that sink vegetative restaurants. They are selling the goodness of their intentions in the hope that you’re more interested in filling the karma bank than your stomach. The […]
Pierre Koffmann protégé and former Young National Chef of the Year, Ben Murphy, just 25, will launch his first restaurant, The Woodford, in South Woodford, on 1 March. Backed by Essex restaurateur Steve Andrews, the 100-cover restaurant will span two floors, with a dedicated oyster and seafood bar on the first floor. Ben spent three years […]
The dude food craze shows no signs of slowing down, even outside of the capital. Stock Burger Co. just launched on Brighton’s iconic seafront, forming part of Kew Green Hotels’ £3.5 million development of Holiday Inn Brighton. However the bar and restaurant is a standalone venue (with separate off-street entrance). Stock Burger Co. serves gourmet […]
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. […]
