Arguably the most ambitious New Zealand eating and drinking venue to open in Europe launches tomorrow, Saturday 20 August, in Manchester’s £750 million Circle Square redevelopment, off Oxford Street. Tahi, meaning ‘one’ or ‘together’ in the Māori language, is a 102-seater all-day restaurant and bakery that showcases Kiwi specialities from coffee, pastries and brunch plates […]

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This June a new café Halva Bakery comes to the Fulham Road, courtesy of classically trained pastry chef Lila Sarhang Zadeh. The dine-in and take away spot offers a range of homemade bread (from basil to vanilla flavour), pastries and cakes, as well as breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. As well as croissants and pain au chocolate, Halva also […]

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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 […]

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