French über-chef Yannick Alléno is the latest international kitchen celeb to try his hand in London, with the trailed opening next year of a new restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane. Alléno made his name at Le Meurice in Paris and followed up with Le 1947 at the ski resort of Couchevel. […]
Chef Henry Harris is reviving his much-missed French restaurant Racine, seven years after it closed in Knightsbridge. The new Bouchon Racine opens in November upstairs at the Three Compasses pub in Cowcross Street, Farringdon. Henry has joined forces with former Goodman and Rockfish director Dave Strauss in the new project, which will consist of a […]
A museum and library dedicated to the late chef Michel Roux is to be opened next to The Waterside Inn, the classic French restaurant he founded 50 years ago in the village of Bray, on the River Thames west of London. Michel and his older brother Albert became dominant figures in British gastronomy with the […]
Soho’s venerable L’Escargot, reputedly London’s oldest French restaurant, is to reopen its Suffolk summer pop-up as a permanent seaside outpost called L’Escargot sur Mer in Aldeburgh. Currently being renovated for the launch, L’Escargot sur Mer at 152 Aldeburgh High Street will have 60 covers, a wine bar, six bedrooms and a rooftop terrace with sea […]
Gazette, the Gallic brasserie group based in Battersea, has opened its first branch in central London, on the Holborn site long occupied by Vanilla Black (RIP), the highly rated vegetarian restaurant that closed down last summer. In a nod to its legal-land location on the fringe of the City, Gazette Chancery features a dine-in wine […]
This weekend (10 February) D&D’s French restaurant in the heart of Marylebone will mark its 21st anniversary by re-opening with a new look and a new menu from chef-patron Igor Tymchyshyn. Orrery has always made “stylish”use of a slightly “odd” space, and its roof terrace is a favourite among our reporters when the warm weather arrives. The furniture, […]
Though our reporters resolutely love Club Gascon’s “beautiful dishes with amazing combinations of flavour and colours”, there were one or two gripes last year that the interior was starting to feel “a bit 90s”. So news that Pascal Aussignac’s City venture will reopen later this month following a major refurbishment is happy indeed. The restaurant, […]
We didn’t think a plum Fitzrovia site like the one Dabbous inhabited until recently would sit vacant for long, and we were right. Plans are already afoot to turn the “loft-style”, industrial-chic restaurant into a rustic French bistro (quite a departure!), thanks to former co-owner and manager of Pied à Terre, Mathieu Germond. Ollie Dabbous and […]
London offers such a wealth of dining that you probably wouldn’t be able to visit every single restaurant in your lifetime. The attempt would certainly be a noble pursuit, but also a bankruptcy-inducing one (unless you have Mariana Trench-deep pockets). So we’ve rounded-up a more manageable goal – the top 25 dishes to try at […]
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, […]
