Ex-Spuntino head chef Rachel O’Sullivan has opened a deli, Pinch Pantry, off Dalston Lane (just round the corner from Steve Parle’s new Rotorino). The former Polpo Group chef is working with Venus McMahon (formerly of local dine ’n’ wine spot, L’Entrepot). To keep up to date with all the latest London goings-on and news […]
St Paul’s Road in Islington is becoming quite the hub of restaurant activity. First Trullo (founded by River Café alumnus Jordan Frieda) moved in, then LECOQ (from Salt Yard Group founder Sanja Morris and her sister Anna) set up camp beside it, and soon a new artisan café, Sawyer & Gray, will open next door. Details […]
Popular Mexican chain Benito’s Hat has opened a Leadenhall Street outpost to cater for the City crowd. The latest branch features electronic ordering to (hopefully) reduce queues during the lunch hour rush. Punters can order food via an app and collect in-house or have it delivered to their office. Like its other five London establishments, Benito’s Hat’s […]
In a rather timely report (it being Earth Awareness Month and all), the House of Lords’ EU Committee has called for urgent action on food waste. This is not a little local issue. Global food waste’s carbon footprint is twice that of America’s trucks and automobiles! The Lord’s committee now wants the European Commission to […]
Foxcroft & Ginger, Soho, launches its second outpost, in Whitechapel, today (3 April). The new 70-cover restaurant occupies the former site of Wickham’s department store in Mile End Road, which – as all readers will doubtless know – was once regarded as the ‘Harrod’s of the East’. Foxcroft & Ginger’s new operation includes a 24-hour […]
Favoured Left Bank haunt of stars like Depardieu and Deneuve, La Cigale Récamier is opening a Knightsbridge offshoot later this month, to be called Les Soufflés. The new restaurant, in Beauchamp Place, will serve up … well you can guess. It’s La Cigale Récamier’s speciality. Estelle Idoux, daughter of Gérard Idoux who founded La Cigale Récamier, […]
Claude Bosi, of Mayfair’s Hibiscus, is to join forces with French chef Yannick Alleno to host two special eight-course dinners later this month. The collaboration is of particular interest as Alleno’s credentials include an impressive 10 year stint as head chef at Parisian palace hotel Le Meurice. Since 2008, however, his main goal seems to […]
If – after recent openings like One Sixty Smokehouse, Q Grill and Avenue – you still haven’t had your fill of the cuisine du jour, you’ll be really pleased to hear a new American pop-up is coming our way. Ruby Jean’s Diner will kick off a run of residencies at The Royal George in Charing Cross Road […]
The Editors’ review of One Kensington Tamarind group’s latest offering is already firing on all cylinders. Simon Rogan goes wild at Claridge’s The speculation is over, Rogan’s restaurant will be called Fera (wild in Latin). The rise of ‘food porn’ Chefs rail against the fashion for photographing food. Ramsay returns to his […]
