The Larder, a new 35-cover all-day café and food store based in the heart of Fitzrovia’s Pearson Square, opened on Wednesday 17 February. The café will serve everything from hearty breakfasts to lunchtime toasties and healthy snacks, to eat in or take away. The menus were created by Open House’s exec chef Diego Cardoso (who also […]
Anthony Demetre of Soho’s Arbutus has teamed up with Searcys once again (they successfully launched Urban Coterie at the Montcalm Hotel in Shoreditch last year). This time Demetre and Searcys have jazzed up the food offering at the Barbican Centre with a new Italian serving charcuterie alongside pasta dishes and suckling pig. Osteria, launched on 11 February 2016 […]
We’ve teamed up with Soho’s “quirky” speakeasy-style hideaway, Old Tom & English, to offer one lucky Harden’s reader (and their guest) the chance to win dinner for two. The prize includes four of the restaurant’s delicious small plates per person, and a glass of champagne on arrival. Enter Old Tom & English through its “discreet” […]
This week Wedge Issue Pizza + Beer introduces New York-style thin crust pizza and craft beer on Clerkenwell Road. Their pies are made with dough proofed for three days, and a sauce made solely from crushed sweet San Marzano tomatoes. Wedge Issue Pizza + Beer founders (and husband and wife) Darren Atwater and Martha Gall offer bespoke pizzas […]
Table for one? It doesn’t need to be an embarrassing question. There are plenty of places in London that offer kitchen counter or bar dining where you can perch and watch chefs, oyster shuckers or mixologists work and forget that you’re out on your tod. We’ve rounded up the capital’s best places to eat when […]
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. […]
LONDON Nautilus NW6 £41 “The matzo meal batter is so light and the fish always so über fresh” that it’s inevitably a delight to visit this “truly excellent” – if “basic and functional” – West Hampstead chippy. Golden Hind W1 £26 “A joy for lovers of fish ’n’ chips” – this “very basic” Marylebone institution’s […]
Community restaurant The Lido Cafe will host chefs and street food traders at its “lovely” and “relaxing” poolside dining space in a new series of evening popup dinners. Launching on Thursday 11 February with Tem Ban’s twist on traditional Thai food, the rotating kitchen collaborations will run every Thursday and Friday evening. Guests visiting The Lido […]
Top Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy is bringing his popular tapas chain Tapas Revolution to Sheffield this March with a site in the gargantuan Meadowhall shopping centre. Alongside his four existing tapas bars (Birmingham, Shepherd’s Bush, Shoreditch and Kent), Omar also wrote the 2013 cookbook Tapas Revolution and has made numerous TV appearances including MasterChef, The […]
Covent Garden’s “glamorous” – bar attached to the adjacent “doyenne of seafood restaurants” J. Sheekey – will host an all-female guest chef series this spring and summer, in association with Guardian Members. The first three chefs to take up residency in J.Sheekey Oyster Bar‘s kitchen will be Rosie Birkett, Olia Hercules and Anna Jones. Six women have […]
