Claude Bosi’s Mayfair foodie temple, Hibiscus, is the latest high-end restaurant to cut its opening hours in order to give staff more time off and improve consistency. The chef/patron has cut Tuesday and Wednesday lunch services. Hibiscus is now open for lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and for dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Last […]
Simon Rogan officially launched his new chef’s table experience Aulis at Fera at Claridge’s, in Mayfair, today (7 January). The space is located adjacent to the main kitchen at Fera, and functions not only as a development kitchen for chefs, but also as an exclusive, intimate and interactive private dining room for diners. The six-seat […]
This week the catering industry media was in a big flap about a new documentary series which is airing on Channel 4: Tricks of the Restaurant Trade. The first episode revealed the ‘shocking’ truth that restaurants give better tables to more attractive diners. Surely this is not really news? Beautiful people getting preferential treatment is […]
French artisan bakery and patisserie, PAUL, is continuing the festive celebrations into January with a FREE giveaway at Le Restaurant de PAUL Covent Garden and Tower 42, on Wednesday 6 January to celebrate the day of Epiphany. Those dining as a group of four and wearing a christmas cracker paper crown will be served a complimentary Galette […]
Romy Gill, the restaurateur behind Romy’s Kitchen Restaurant in Gloucestershire, is taking the first residency of 2016 at Carousel in London’s Marylebone. The chef will marry vibrant West Bengal flavours with West Country produce for a special tasting menu available from tomorrow (5 January). The menu will take diners on a culinary grand tour of […]
This week the Times’s Giles Coren reviews a relatively new Italian in the Dickensian maze of streets just south of Spitalfields Market in the City. But more interesting than his opinions on their pasta (sorry Giles) is the critic’s prediction that 2016 will be the year restaurant reservations become fashionable again. In fact here is […]
Well it’s time to say a fond farewell to 2015, and what a year it’s been. The possibility of a pop-up that allows diners to pet foxes, a cereal café causing a riot, celebrity chef spats, and endless controversy as restaurant after restaurant was accused of unfair practices over tipping and service charges. From scathing […]
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. […]
There are already dozens of new London restaurant openings lined up for 2016 on our Coming Soon page. Here are some of the capital’s most anticipated openings… Viajante, Metropolitan Wharf E1 Nuno Mendes hopes to reopen his legendary east London restaurant, famed for its “gastronomic story-telling”, in a new riverside location in Wapping. The chef […]
It may never have lived up to its cathedral-like setting under the railway arches but Vinopolis has been a Borough Market institution since 1999, so news of its impending closure is certainly sad. The wine tour and tasting venue, along with its restaurant Cantina Vinopolis (where food was always rather secondary to wine buffery), will […]
