The Belpassi Bros’ long-promised permanent restaurant (we first remember writing about the possibility back in 2014!) will open on Saturday 6 August. Livio and Lorenzo Belpassi, famed for their meatball truck (parked at Spitalfields Market) will be swapping the streets of Shoreditch for South London with a 40-cover restaurant and bar in Tooting. To celebrate the launch […]
Diners looking for a relaxing lunch need look no further than Kensington’s Baglioni hotel, situated just on the edge of Hyde Park. The hotel’s new, modern Italian dining room, inspired by the traditional, Milanese trattorias of the 1950s – Osteria 60 – is offering three courses for £29, including coffee and water. Book your table at […]
The team behind South Ken’s Macellaio RC – which has long been “knocking more macho steak houses into a cock hat” according to our reporters – will launch a new restaurant in Southwark’s Union Yard arches in August 2016. Founder Robert Costa first expanded his winning formula of “the best steaks ever” paired with an ingenious […]
The folks behind London’s Salt Yard Group (Opera Tavern, Salt Yard, Dehesa, Ember Yard) are the latest restaurateurs to snap up a space in Haymarket’s upcoming St James’s Market development. Venetian-inspired restaurant Veneta will sit alongside venues from Duck & Waffle and NYC’s Nordic fine dining establishment Aquavit. Veneta will boast 110-covers, combining classic bar-counter seating, […]
Next month will see Queen’s Park’s “lively” Puglian three-year-old Ostuni launch a second site in Highgate Village. The original, which opened in a converted Victorian workshop in 2013, found favour with Harden’s reporters for its “authentically Italian” decor and “great food at reasonable prices”. Its menu is dedicated to the cuisine and wines of Puglia, and its 95-cover sister venue […]
This summer diners can enjoy bottomless prosecco with their pasta for just £19.95 at the “discreet and efficient” Gatti’s City Point near Moorgate. Just book a table for lunch or dinner through the restaurant’s Harden’s online listing. The offer is valid at Gatti’s City Point only for lunch or dinner Monday-Friday, May-September. Bottomless prosecco will be served […]
Restaurant and bar group Searcys is to open a new Italian restaurant at One New Change in the heart London’s Square Mile. There will be a soft launch from 4 May ahead of the official opening on 9 May. Searcys One New Change is dedicated to traditional pasta and meatball dishes, as well as serving a […]
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. […]
The one draw-back to Ealing’s world-famous pizzeria, Santa Maria, has always been that it’s “nigh-on impossible to get a table”, well, now they’re adding a second branch in Chelsea. The 25-cover site is located just off the King’s Road and will open on Friday 8 April with a 50% off food soft launch offer until […]
Jay Rayner likened its concept to an “Italian Ikea concession” while the Indy’s John Walsh compared a visit there to “wandering into a peculiar branch of McDonald’s”. Yep, Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo’s (of Bocca di Lupo fame) latest venture Vico got a bit of a rough ride when it opened in Cambridge Circus in August […]
