Dining in Seven Dials continues its upward trajectory, as the people behind long-time Soho favourite Bocca di Lupo follow in Marcus Wareing and Russell Norman’s footsteps to open a restaurant there. Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo, of the lauded tapas-style Italian, will launch their second London outpost, Vico, in late-August right next door to Norman’s Ape […]
AA Gill heads to Le Chabanais hoping to recapture the nouvelle cuisine magic he discovered at Roger Vergé’s Le Moulin de Mougins in Monte Carlo so many years ago. However this new venture, on Mayfair’s Mount Street, an offshoot of Le Chateaubriand in Paris, singularly fails to impress the Sunday Times’s critic-in-chief. “This is a […]
Claude Bosi has hired a former Le Gavroche chef to head up the kitchen at his low-key foodie temple Hibiscus in Mayfair. Francesco Dibenedetto began his culinary training at IPSSAR ‘A. Perotti’ (Professional Institute of State for Food and Wine) and has since had a variety of roles, including the Four Seasons Golf Club in Dubai, a place at […]
We all know the flapping, fluster and general furore that can precede planning a dinner party. Buying candles and napkins, checking you have enough champagne flutes and glasses, choosing the right wines to go with your menu – deciding on a menu in the first place. It is a complex and intricate business. A menu […]
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. Al fresco Trending Restaurants […]
Boutique luxury hotel Flemings Mayfair, which is currently undergoing a £14 million refurb’, has launched a new afternoon tea space The Drawing Room. This most British of dining institutions will be served in the newly decorated space daily between 12:30-5pm. From the traditional through to Chocolate Indulgence, or the hotel’s signature Ruinart Rosé Royal Afternoon Tea […]
The newest arrival to the K10 restaurant group, situated within the Minster Court near London’s Fenchurch St Station, vaunts the country’s longest sushi train. At 50 metres long, the kaiten belt carries over 300 plates around the conveyor in seven minutes. As well as a 90-cover dining room with conveyor-side seating, K10’s latest outpost has a […]
This summer Italian bar and restaurant Cucina Asellina are launching a unique ‘Bottomless Prosecco & Unlimited Pizzette’ offering. The £20 pp menu is available for a 90 minute sitting Monday-Sunday, 4-8pm, and can be enjoyed either on the terrace or in the dining room. Accompanying the bottomless prosecco is a pizzette menu, created by head […]
According to recent research independent restaurants are rapidly losing ground to chains – news that will not shock many restaurateurs. Over the last six years visits to standalone dining spots have dropped by 1.4 billion, while trips to branches of some of the UK’s growing groups soared by 900 million. The new figures, from NPD […]
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 16-22 […]
