After launching the Ivy Market Grill in 2014 and the Ivy Chelsea Garden earlier this year, Richard Caring has further expanded his most bankable brand. His restaurant group Caprice Holdings have snapped up the former site of Pavilion in Kensington – a surprisingly short-lived venture by Foxton’s estate agency founder Jon Hunt and chef Adam […]
‘Supplier-to-table’ seafood venture in the heart of Soho, Rex & Mariano, which closed after less than a year, has been replaced by another meat-focused venture from the Goodman group. Zelman Meats – courtesy of the company that brought us Goodman steak houses and Burger & Lobster – took over the St Anne’s Court site today (3 November). Surprisingly […]
This week saw a double helping of reviews for Richard Caring’s latest Mayfair venture, the lavishly appointed and ludicrously (yet somehow brilliantly) named Sexy Fish. Both the Evening Standard’s Grace Dent and the Telegraph’s Joseph Connolly paid the Berkeley Square newcomer a visit, and opinion was very much divided. Grace, being the meeja dahling that […]
Since Pied à Terre chef Marcus Eaves first announced his surprise move from one of the capital’s foremost foodie temples, to spearheading the ‘urban casual’ dining at The Shard’s eyrie Oblix, we have wondered who would replace him. Now we know that sister restaurant L’Autre Pied‘s chef Andy McFadden has taken the reins at David Moore’s “plush” Fitzrovia […]
Clapham’s cool, new South American-Japanese fusion spot, Mommi, has an extremely tasty offer for Harden’s readers. Book a table at this recently launched restaurant, just a stone’s throw from Clapham North tube, from Sunday 1 – Thursday 5 November (inclusive) and get 50% off your food bill. The offer is available for Sunday brunch, lunch […]
You liked our round-up of London’s top 10 Indian restaurants so much we’ve decided to take a look around the rest of the UK for the best curry houses. Whether you’re looking for great-value Gujaratis and clever Keralans, or temples of nouvelle Indian cuisine, we’ve got it covered. As you can imagine it’s a bit more […]
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. Trending Restaurants 22-28 October […]
Shackfuyu, the sister restaurant to Bone Daddies and Flesh & Buns, which opened last February as a 12-month pop-up in Soho, will host a two day residency at Bone Daddies workshop in Bermondsey this weekend. Under the railway arches around the corner from Maltby and Druid Street markets, the Shackfuyu residency will be a ticketed […]
The Sethi siblings – the team behind Gymkhana and Trishna – have turned their restaurant Midas touch to street food with their latest venture inspired by the road shacks of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Hoppers launched in Soho’s Frith Street on 28 October, on the former site of Koya, which closed at the end of […]
Ex-Nobu chef Scott Hallsworth’s “welcome addition to London’s rock n roll Asian dining scene” Kurobuta will open at Harvey Nics in Knightsbridge on 6 November. The small, but expanding, group of Japanese izakaya-style restaurants already has an outpost in Bayswater, as well as its original pop-up-turned-permanent site on the King’s Road in Chelsea. This latest […]