Restaurateur Steve Pilling, who runs Manchester’s Damson with such “evident passion”, has cancelled plans for a new city centre restaurant. His Roast Restaurant and Oyster Bar was scheduled to open in Manchester’s historic Courthouse development on Deansgate, alongside the first non-London outpost of Hawksmoor, however the chef decided his concept was just too similar to Huw […]

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Harden’s readers have the chance to win dinner for two with drinks at hotly tipped newcomer Linnea in Kew. This Scandinavian-influenced restaurant scored an outstanding rating for food in our 2015 survey and was strongly recommended by our reporters, who said it mouth-watering cuisine “would be 3x the price in Knightsbridge or Soho”. Chef/patron Jonas […]

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