For those who just can’t wait for MasterChef to start again next year, there’s a pop-up opening today (2 September) that will scratch your itch. Over the next five weeks, winners and finalists – old and new – will be running a temporary restaurant and bar at the Blue Fin building in Southwark. Tickets have already sold […]
Further proof that Soho’s seedy roots are being eradicated. An illegal strip club on Great Windmill Street has been closed down and will be repurposed as a 50-cover restaurant and Folk clothing shop. First-time restaurateur Gordon Ker (pictured) won permission for a change of use of the site and will convert the basement into a […]
Enter our GOAT and Jack Daniels competition Your chance to win dinner and drinks at GOAT’s speakeasy night: Fat Sam’s. Grace Dent gives Cafe Football a red card “There’s nothing I don’t love about this concept. Except, that is, the food.” says the Evening Standard critic. Goodbye Bones? Has the trendy Shoreditch chicken/sharing […]
Bones, Shoreditch’s bang on trend chicken and sharing plates spot, has closed. Ostensibly the restaurant has shut up shop in order to carry out a refurb, but murmurings from the foodie cognoscenti denote an air of wishful thinking on the part of the owners. Indeed their website www.ieatbones.com has already been taken offline. Although serving up-to-the-minute fashionable […]
Sacre bleu! It’s been announced that an American chef is to head up one of London’s more popular Gallic bistros. David Fogelman has taken the reins at Bruno’s Loubet’s eponymous establishment at the Zetter Townhouse hotel in Clerkenwell. Fogelman, however, has been semi-nautralised, having worked in London kitchens since 2009, cutting his teeth at restaurants like Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s and Fergus Henderson’s […]
Harden’s has teamed up with GOAT and Jack Daniels to bring you the chance to win a table for four at the Chelsea bar and restaurant’s speakeasy event: Fat Sam’s. As well as free entry to the Fulham Road night spot on Friday 18 September, the prize also includes a bottle of Honey Jack Daniels and two […]
Marylebone’s Canvas, which opened six months ago, has closed and relocated to the former site of Le Cercle. Chef/restaurateur Michael Riemenschneider will relaunch the restaurant on 2 September in Wilbraham Place, just off Sloane Square. The new Canvas will not only be bigger (60-80 covers instead of 20) and less central, it will also (crucially) […]
During our usually damp summers we Brits have braved many adverse weather conditions in the hope of lighting the barbecue and enjoying a good burger. And it looks as though tomorrow’s National Burger Day (27 August) will be no different. Events to mark this auspicious day include Mr Hyde’s CAR-B-Q at Battersea Powerstation – in a […]
Shoreditch’s Vietnamese restaurant and takeaway, Kêu, will open its second London site in Soho on 15 September. The street food bar, serving up banh mi (filled baguettes), noodle bowls and buns, will take over 9 Poland Street, once home to the Burlington Café. The menu includes classic banh mi like mortadella, pork floss, house chicken liver […]
Globally popular ramen bar, Ippudo – which already has sites in Japan, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York – is finally to open its first European outpost. No prizes for guessing where they’ve decided to launch this new flagship restaurant – London (obvs). Ippudo St Giles will offer Londoners signature dishes like Shiromaru Classic, a traditional white […]
