The Editors’ review of Bilbao Berria This Basque-style tapas joint is a welcome break from the usually grimly impersonal restaurants around Haymarket. Grace Dent falls in love with Georgian food at Marani ‘I don’t even like mascarpone that much, or mille feuille, but this is making me quite… emotional’. Vienna waltzes into Marylebone, […]
Here’s a mouth-watering event with an eye-watering price tag. Rosemary Shrager – a one-time Pierre Koffman protégée-turned-celebrity-chef, by way of the ITV jungle – is hosting a week-long ‘celebration of food and wine’ at Château Lou Casteou on the Côte d’Azur, costing £5,650 per couple. Mind you, that does include a six-night stay at the luxury residence, […]
Parisian bistro, Les Gourmets des Ternes, has opened its first overseas outpost in Maida Vale. The establishment will be run by Maximilien Marie, grandson to Francis Marie who opened the celeb-friendly Paris original in 1962. The Formosa Street counterpart has exactly the same décor and menu with a focus on meat, sourced from the family […]
Pavilion, a new restaurant, champagne bar and deli owned by the founder of Foxton’s estate agency, Jon Hunt, opens today (30 May). The kitchen is overseen by Adam Simmonds (most recently of Danesfield House in Marlow) who previously worked under big hitters such as Raymond Blanc and Marco Pierre White, as well as putting in stints at The […]
Ramsons was never your ordinary provincial restaurant. As recently as 2011, the North Western legend was rated 73rd best restaurant in the UK in the Sunday Times Food List (which is powered by the Harden’s survey). Now, the establishment has been reborn as The Venetian House, after proprietor Chris Johnson (who retired on 3 May […]
The Editors’ review of The New Angel Celestial choirs break out for us as John Burton-Race returns to the London dining scene. Zoe Williams wants to buy the Holborn Dining Room kitchen a timer Everything the Telegraph reviewer eats is overcooked, from lobster to liver. Ash Mair finally opens Bilbao Berria The MasterChef […]
Australian chef Ash Mair (winner of 2011 MasterChef Professionals) has finally opened his long-awaited tapas restaurant in (Lower) Regent Street. The Basque-inspired Bilbao Berria is a genuine Spanish export, an offshoot of a chain with two sites already in Bilbao, two in Barcelona and one in Ibiza. This is the chain’s first international outpost and will be […]
Just in time for summer, this 14th century Thames-side Chiswick boozer reopens tomorrow (24 May), after an extensive refurb. The City Barge wants to be ‘the ultimate Thames-side pub’ – with a reclaimed Victorian bar, open fires, examples of rare bird taxidermy, private dining room and outside seating by the water, it may just pull […]
D&D London has been able to purchase a prime piece of restaurant real estate after its former owner’s company went bust. The group once known as Conran Restaurants has bought the 130-cover Madison Bar and Restaurant in the City’s One New Change centre (which also houses Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa) for £4.5 million. The tapas restaurant was founded […]
We hoped it wasn’t gone for good, and it looks like our prayers have been answered: the Anglesea Arms in Ravenscourt Park is making a comeback, and with former head chef Phil Harrison in the kitchen. The pub will re-open under new management on 11 June following some renovations. In the past the Anglesea Arms has […]
