London’s flagship ambassador for Portuguese cuisine, the “refined and beautiful” Portal in Clerkenwell, is hosting a Taste Portugal event later this month. Discover Portuguese produce, like BÃsaro pork, through a special menu created by chef/patron Antonio Correia and former head chef Ricardo Costa (now heading up the kitchen at Porto’s celebrated Yeatman Hotel). Taste Portugal […]
New grill house, West Thirty Six, will open in Golborne Road later this month – the same west London street that already houses John Doe, the charcoal grill spot glowingly reviewed by the Observer’s Jay Rayner on Sunday (4 Jan). The three storey 100-cover restaurant with bar and cocktail lounge, on the former site of the […]
Sick of the North being overshadowed by London food trends, the people behind Filthy Cow burgers say they want to ‘change the face of dining in Manchester’. A pretty tall order for a humble junk food – especially considering the fact that so many London and global burger brands are on the march in Manchester […]
None of our readers go for the décor, but then that’s not what chippies are about. It’s the “spankingly fresh” fish and chips that attract diners to Kerbisher & Malt, the growing chain of chip shops about to launch its fifth London site. Kerbisher & Malt EC1 will open in foodie hub Exmouth Market on […]
Start the New Year with “Breakfast in Bed,” courtesy of Brew in Putney and Harden’s. We’ve teamed up with the new Antipodean café on Lower Richmond Road to bring you the chance to win breakfast for two in one of the restaurant’s Bedouin-inspired beds with exotically coloured blankets and fabrics from Indonesia. Enjoy dishes like Turkish eggs, poached and […]
Well it’s time to say a fond farewell to 2014, and what a year it’s been. Pop-ups selling human flesh burgers and cafes serving nothing but cereal (only in Shoreditch!), technology takeovers as Instagram photos become currency and iPads replace waiters, and some chin-stroking as Gordon Ramsay blamed chef scheme-hatchery for an empty restaurant on opening […]
The rest of the UK may not have enjoyed the bumper year London did in terms of sheer volume of new restaurants, but several 2014 newcomers outside the capital received rave reviews or were hotly tipped by our reporters. Here are the best openings from across the country in 2014, plus a few that missed […]
