Mere mortals may soon be able to bag a table at the smoking hot Chiltern Firehouse as the Marylebone restaurant is now open for breakfast and lunch. There’s been a lot of conjecture as to when (and if) Nuno Mendes might extend his menu to include anything other than dinner, so now let us all collectively […]
Soho hotel and restaurant One Leicester Street (formerly St John Chinatown) has been sold for the second time in just two years. The seemingly problematic site, once part of the legendary St John group, went into administration in 2013 but was rescued at the eleventh hour by Loh Lik Peng of the Unlisted Collection, which […]
A new café/bar/restaurant offering ‘eclectic modern European cuisine with an Asian twist’ has just opened in Shoreditch. Penkul & Banks, serving tapas and sharing plates (what else?), takes its name from two furniture craftsmen whose Victorian workshops were sited at 77 Curtain Road. Of course more recently the site was home to a manly-menued place […]
How often have we all grumbled that a meal out now costs the same as a small car? Well, if you’d like to go back to the good old days of reasonably priced dishes, you won’t want to miss Moshi Moshi rolling back the clock. London’s original kaiten (conveyor belt) restaurant in Liverpool Street Station […]
All day dining in the City. That’s the theme of this new Ligurian (Genovese) spot, which opened on 4 July in a residential skyscraper, The Heron. Open from 7am-11pm daily, Caterina55 offers eat-in, take-away and delivery options – especially handy for those in the flash new pads above. To keep up to date with […]
Not one but two America’s top exports – Martinis and burgers – are to headline the menu at a new Mayfair diner. Chucs Bar & Grill, in Dover Street, will stand next to (English) entrepreneur Charles Finch’s Chucs Dive & Mountain Shop. The intimate 25-seater restaurant will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, serving up burgers, salads, […]
A few lucky burger lovers have the chance to grab a freebie at the newly opened Burger Craft, at the White Ferry pub in Pimlico. In celebration of its launch, the restaurant is giving away 350 of their signature patty and bun, the Juicy Bastard, this week 7-13 July. The first 50 customers to walk […]
This must be a first! A consultancy which offers advice on sustainability to the food and drink industry – T.E.D (Think.Eat.Drink) – has opened its own restaurant. Inevitably, it will focus on ethically sourced British produce served in “an environmentally friendly setting”. Now open in King’s Cross, T.E.D is housed over two floors, using sustainably-sourced fixtures and fittings […]
The owners of Hackney wine bar Sager + Wilde have revealed their plans for expansion with a second site opening under the railway arches of Bethnal Green. Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wilde will launch a new 90-cover restaurant, Mission, in Paradise Row in late August. With a focus on Californian wines, the pair’s latest venture will […]
French haute cuisine, the wellspring from which culinary magic seems to flow across the world, has been sidelined of late in favour of rusticity, simplicity and (let’s face it) dirty great burgers. But can the classics ever truly go out of style? Surely we all just need a gentle reminder of France’s culinary prowess? Well, […]
