“Foodie hipster heaven” The Clove Club will become the first UK restaurant to charge diners who cancel their reservations less than 24 hours in advance or fail to show up at all. From April restaurant-goers who make bookings at the old Shoreditch Town Hall dining room will be required to register their debit or credit […]
Polarising comedian, gobby Essex lad, author, political activist – whatever you think of Russell Brand it’s hard to avoid the man these days. Now the one-time BBC radio host is stepping into the restaurant industry, opening a cafe on Hackney’s New Era Estate. Brand campaigned to keep the east London estate out of the hands […]
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. […]
Easter – a time of chocolate, eggs, chocolate eggs and egg-related puns. Well, we promise we won’t make any as we roundup London’s best Easter events and offers – no eggsceptions. (Sorry, we couldn’t help it). For a traditional Easter Sunday Lunch… London House SW11 “Ramsay does it right!” – his “slick” […]
One of the capital’s most revered Italian restaurants will celebrate 25 years in business in April. Enoteca Turi, a fixture in our London guide since 1995, has been serving up “first-class regional cooking” plus “a massive selection of carefully chosen Italian wines” for a quarter of a century. Its Putney Bridge-side location, while a little […]
In the same week that we wondered whether the craze for niche, single offering restaurants had reached its ne plus ultra with grilled cheese spot The Melt Room, some comforting news that east London has not yet found its ceiling when it comes to unusual dining concepts. Not content with a cat cafe (Lady Dinah’s), a […]
Mark Sargeant (of Folkestone’s Rocksalt and London’s Plum + Spilt Milk fame) has been brought in to revamp the menu at Trafalgar Square’s Strand Dining Rooms. The all-day restaurant, launched by restaurateur Mark Harris last year, received some pretty scathing reviews from the likes of Giles Coren “the chicken wasn’t fit to bait a mousetrap” and […]
From Eric Snaith (chef/patron of Norfolk’s “wonderful” Titchwell Manor) comes this standalone fish and chip restaurant. Eric’s Fish & Chips opens in East Anglian coastal town Thornham this April serving traditional chippy fare with a modern twist. Early birds can get 50% off during a soft launch period from 7-17 April. Eric’s uses local tatties for the chips […]
Jay Rayner weighs in on the north/south restaurant divide question The Observer’s critic-in-chief heads to Manchester to try out the new Hawksmoor and stumbles across a veggie dining room, 1847, serving great food – well, apart from the desserts. Read our roundup of restaurant news in Manchester and enter our Hawksmoor Manchester competition. Meanwhile the […]
