The Chancellor’s budget for 2016 has proved rather divisive since its unveiling last week. From Jeremy Corbyn’s calls for George Osborne to resign over a purported £4.4 billion black hole in the numbers to Iain Duncan’s Smith’s dramatic exit, it has split opinion among the general public, politicians and the catering industry. One aspect of […]
We’ve teamed up with Soho’s “quirky” speakeasy-style hideaway, Old Tom & English, to offer one lucky Harden’s reader (and their guest) the chance to win dinner for two. The prize includes four of the restaurant’s delicious small plates per person, and a glass of champagne on arrival. Enter Old Tom & English through its “discreet” […]
This March the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) will launch its fifth annual awards – now named the Food Made Good Awards, sponsored by Nestlé Professional. The accolades are a chance for restaurants and the food service sector to showcase their sustainability achievements. Managing director of the SRA, Mark Linehan, says that recent years have witnessed […]
More news this week on the hospitality industry’s tipping scandal – but this time it’s actually good. It seems NYC-restauranteur Danny Meyer (Shake Shack, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino, Union Square Cafe) agrees with Harden’s on this one as he’s banned the practice at his New York restaurants. We stated months ago, when this whole furore began, that […]
London restaurants now have an even easier way to accept table reservations thanks to a new partnership between Harden’s, the UK’s leading restaurant guide, and tech start-up Twizoo. Innovative technology developed by Twizoo means that restaurants can automatically take real-time bookings in response to customer tweets, creating the first service globally to offer automatic restaurant bookings […]
We all know the flapping, fluster and general furore that can precede planning a dinner party. Buying candles and napkins, checking you have enough champagne flutes and glasses, choosing the right wines to go with your menu – deciding on a menu in the first place. It is a complex and intricate business. A menu […]
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. Trending […]
We’ve teamed up with TwoRuba to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a bar tab worth £100. Whether your tipple of choice is the ‘YBT’ (You’ve Been Tangoed, a blend of orange and hazelnut delivered under a smoking cloche); ‘The Gentleman’ (perfect for Negroni lovers); a twisted classic; or a champagne creation, there’s […]
Start the New Year with “Breakfast in Bed,” courtesy of Brew in Putney and Harden’s. We’ve teamed up with the new Antipodean café on Lower Richmond Road to bring you the chance to win breakfast for two in one of the restaurant’s Bedouin-inspired beds with exotically coloured blankets and fabrics from Indonesia. Enjoy dishes like Turkish eggs, poached and […]
The results are now in from our annual survey of restaurant-goers – one of the most comprehensive in the UK – and we can reveal which London restaurants are hot (and which are not). This year saw unprecedented growth in the net number of new restaurants opening in the capital (101), beating the previous 2006 […]
