Following a rather short-lived pop-up in Shoreditch’s Paul Street, the Porridge Café will reappear at Victoria Station this week. The temporary oats-only restaurant opens in conjunction with Transport for London (TfL) on Thursday 14 May. On the new menu: three summer breakfast porridges, two summer savoury porridges and two new summer grain salads. There will also […]
It seems as though Belgravia will soon be rivalling the City when it comes to new restaurant development.Hot on the heels of Broadgate Circle’s 11 extra eateries comes Nova which will garnish the restaurant wasteland around Victoria station with 18 dining spots in 2016. And we’re not talking about any old chains either. Among the […]
The craft beer revolution has taken London by storm. But while we are partial to a pale ale or a porter, how much do we really know about the art of brewing or pairing beer with food? Pennethorne’s Cafe Bar at Somerset House, has teamed up with London brewery, CRATE, to offer monthly masterclasses. Tomorrow […]
Steve Love’s Birmingham canal-side venture into fine dining is to close on 31 May after six years. Though Loves has always been “difficult to find” it was considered well worth the extra effort by our reporters for “first-class” cuisine that’s “inventive without being faddish”. The “outstanding” list of drinks “from UK-centric bubbles to local liqueurs” was […]
We’re offering one lucky Harden’s reader (and their guest) the chance to try the newly launched Wheeler’s Rib Room & Oyster Bar at Threadneedles Marriott Hotel. Enjoy a bottle of chilled champagne, chosen by the restaurant’s sommelier, as you indulge in a platter of oysters for two. Marco Pierre White’s latest venture, housed within the City hotel’s […]
David Moore and his business partner Sean Martin are to open a second One Sixty Smokehouse outpost – this time in a decidedly more central location. The original launched in March last year in West Hampstead’s West End Lane, but the new restaurant will take over the site of a former Slug & Lettuce site […]
Another week, another seven day stint raising the profile of a product we’re already well aware of. This time round it’s National Doughnut Week (9-16 May). To honour this humble, yet delicious, food we’ve rounded up our favourite 10 places to get sweet and savoury rings in the capital. In the immortal words of Homer […]
In January this year Porters in Covent Garden, perhaps better known for its “excellent pies” and “good-value” deals than its culinary offering (dubbed “stodgy” by some), closed for good. But now we hear it is to be reborn in a more arboreal setting as owner Richard (the Earl of) Bradford relaunches the restaurant in Berkhamsted this month. […]
Tom Harris and Jon Rotheram – alumni of such noble institutions as St John hotel, Nobu and Fifteen – will relaunch The Marksman pub in Hackney on 1 June. The pub on Hackney Road will retain many of the original features including wood panelling and bar seating. The menu includes British-loved classics such as cooked […]
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 […]
