A smart new northern Chinese restaurant called Mulan Noodle with an open kitchen producing hand-pulled noodles has opened on Acre Lane, between Clapham and Brixton in South London. Mulan also offers live traditional Chinese music on Friday and Saturday nights, featuring instruments including a 21-string zither called the guzheng and the pipa, a four-stringed lute. […]
Islington’s post-covid curry phenomenon Tamil Prince has opened its first offshoot in South London with the launch this week of Tamila in Clapham. The restaurant has taken over the former site of VE Kitchen in Northcote Road – the main drag of thriving ‘Nappy Valley’, south of Clapham Junction station. Tamila brings back the name of […]
A new Anglo-American steakhouse with rooftop dining opens in Clapham High Street next week – and promises “the best steaks in South London”. Franklin & Baines offers selection of grass-fed British steaks, dry-aged for a minimum of 28 days, ranging from a 200g hanger steak at £18.50 to a 700g tomahawk for two at £69 – all […]
Lina Stores, the veteran Soho deli transformed into a contemporary pasta restaurant group, is to open its long-promised branch on the edge of Clapham Common next month. The new venue with Lina’s distinctive green and white-striped awning has taken over a prime corner site on The Pavement formerly occupied by St Clair, an ambitious ‘fish […]
Megan’s, the upbeat and extremely dog-friendly London chain known for its bottomless prosecco brunches, is planning almost to double in size by the end of next year, with chairman Rod McKie saying this week the number of branches will grow from 13 to 22. Having started out as a King’s Road Chelsea antiques shop that […]
Iraqi cuisine will get a rare and welcome showcase through the Juma Kitchen’s residency at Clapham pub The King and Co throughout October. This will be the first extended opportunity to sample the cooking of Philip Juma, a London-based Anglo-Irish-Iraqi chef who aims to present Iraqi cuisine in a new light. So far, Juma Kitchen has been restricted […]
A new dim sum café and shop has opened just off Clapham High Street. On Café serves an eclectic mix of dumplings, buns and other sharing plates, as well as French patisserie with an Oriental flavour. Alongside the dim sum menu are more substantial offerings such as Kim Chi Rice and slow cooked soups. On […]
We’ve teamed up with the good people of Twizoo to announce the top 5 trending restaurants on Twitter each week in London. Twizoo is an app that gives restaurant recommendations based on what people are saying on Twitter, and analyses over 50,000 incoming tweets per week to determine which restaurants are attracting the most buzz. […]
It’s St George’s Day this weekend and that means there will be endless articles about where to get the best fish & chips in the country or who bakes Britain’s best pie. Subjects upon which we’ve already registered our opinion. Instead, we’ve decided to bring you the best of modern British cooking. Because being a […]
A new Middle Eastern restaurant, nestled between Clapham and Wandsworth Commons, will open this June offering south Londoners a taste of the Caspian with influences from Iran and Turkey. JAN, on Clapham’s Northcote Road, boasts an impressive, medieval-style charcoal oven for traditionally cooked meat, bread and veg dishes, as well as innovative cocktails set in a […]
