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    Champagne and pastries add more sparkle to Harrods
    May 13, 2022 HardensBytes

    Harrods is boosting its credentials as a food and drink destination with the opening over the next next couple of months of two new high-end imports from France – Paris pâtissier extraordinaire Angelo Musa closely followed by a Champagne bar from Moët & Chandon. Musa is executive pastry chef at the opulent Hotel Plaza Athénée, […]

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    The Truscott Arms returns as Hero of Maida with Henry Harris at the helm
    May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 HardensBytes

    The Truscott Arms is back with a bang as Henry Harris (formerly of Knightbridge’s Racine, RIP) takes over the kitchen to relaunch the favourite local as Hero of Maida. He will oversee the Maida Vale gastropub’s relaunch as chef director alongside business partner James McCulloch. It is the third project from Harcourt Inns, following Three […]

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    Dinner by Heston heads to The Hind’s Head in Bray
    January 16, 2018January 16, 2018 HardensBytes

    On Saturday 3 February 2018, for one day only, the team from Knightsbridge’s Dinner by Heston Blumenthal will be in residence at The Hind’s Head, Bray. The five course menu is £95pp and includes Dinner’s famous meat fruit – a dish that even the restaurant’s detractors love. Chef Director Ashley Palmer-Watts and Head Chef Jonny Glass […]

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    Former Marcus chef duo to open Pentonbridge Inn in Cumbria
    August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 HardensBytes

    Husband and wife chef duo Jake and Cassie White will swap London’s dining scene for the wilds of Cumbria with the launch of Pentonbridge Inn, a pub with rooms, located 17 miles north of Carlisle. The pair are hot-footing it from Marcus Wareing’s Marcus at The Berkeley in London – incidentally now run by another husband and […]

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    Clare Smyth goes solo as Core opens in Notting Hill
    August 1, 2017August 2, 2017 HardensBytes

    After nearly two years of preparation (we first heard of her proposed solo venture back in 2015) Ramsay’s golden girl Clare Smyth has finally unveiled her first restaurant. Core by Clare Smyth opened on 1 August on the former site of Notting Hill Kitchen, in a grand and rambling old townhouse on Kensington Park Road. The ethos, for […]

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    Win a whisky and cheese tasting experience for two at The Capital
    January 22, 2016 HardensBytes

    Harden’s has teamed up with The Capital Hotel in Knightsbridge to offer one lucky reader (and their guest) the chance to win a whisky and cheese tasting experience for two at the Capital Bar. Sample an impressive range of Scotch whisky, expertly matched with a selection of British cheese. The winner will be guided through […]

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    Polpo marches on with sites in Harvey Nics London and Leeds
    January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 HardensBytes

    Russell Norman’s Venetian-influenced small plates empire, Polpo, expands ever onward as he announces new sites in Harvey Nics London and Leeds. Polpo Harvey Nichols Knightsbridge is due to launch first on 8 February, taking a space on the luxury department store’s fifth floor, which is already home to Scott Hallsworth’s Japanese izakaya Kurobuta. Despite being […]

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    Scott Hallsworth’s Kurobuta brand expands to Harvey Nics
    October 27, 2015 HardensBytes

    Ex-Nobu chef Scott Hallsworth’s “welcome addition to London’s rock n roll Asian dining scene” Kurobuta will open at Harvey Nics in Knightsbridge on 6 November. The small, but expanding, group of Japanese izakaya-style restaurants already has an outpost in Bayswater, as well as its original pop-up-turned-permanent site on the King’s Road in Chelsea. This latest […]

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    The Lanesborough reopens following multi-million refurb’
    July 7, 2015July 7, 2015 HardensBytes

    The Lanesborough in Knightsbridge reopened on 1 July after a multi-million pound renovation. The hotel vaunts 93 bedrooms, 43 suites and a new restaurant on the former site of Apsleys (RIP) called Céleste. Let’s hope that the food can (for once) live up to the locale and the often “terrifying” prices of the past. It certainly […]

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    Harrods opens Tartufi & Friends truffle lounge
    May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 HardensBytes

    Surely it was only a matter of time before London’s most exclusive department store opened a lounge dedicated to gastronomy’s most expensive ingredient? Knightsbridge landmark Harrods has announced the launch of Italian truffle lounge Tartufi & Friends, on the lower ground floor of the world famous retailer. Tartufi & Friends is ‘entirely dedicated to the […]

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