Further evidence that health food-focused restaurants are making inroads in London (which now surely has had its fill of burger bars) as Farm Girl opens in Notting Hill. The Antipodean-style café arrived in Portobello Road in June, just north of the area’s iconic market. And it sounds like founder Rose Mann, who grew up on a […]
A Victorian-style restaurant and piano bar The Piano Works opens in Clerkenwell in July on the corner of Farringdon Road and Ray Street. The rather unique-sounding space features two live pianists and accompanying musicians playing requests from the audience. Located in the basement of a listed Victorian warehouse, the 400-capacity venue seeks to revive the saloon […]
The doors of pork-focused pop-up Oink open in east London on 3 July. The self-proclaimed home of ‘Swine Dining’, will take up weekend residency on Shoreditch’s Commercial Street and aims to pay culinary homage to the humble pig. Oink is designed to encourage a communal dining experience, featuring sharable starter plates and main dishes. Expect the likes […]
Anna Hansen will bring her inventive fusion cuisine to the City in July with a second Modern Pantry opening in Finsbury Square. The venue will feature a tapas bar, restaurant and private dining room all housed within a rather handsome Georgian building. Heading up the kitchen will be chef Rob McLeary, a protégé of Hansen’s since 2008. […]
For those who’ve never experienced the luxury of the airport first class lounge here’s your chance to do so – without the horror of actually going to the airport. Virgin Atlantic and Delta Airline (official airline partners of London’s O2 venue) will launch the NY-LON bar and lounge in Greenwich this July. The airlines have […]
From the indomitable Jason Atherton stable comes a new wine shop offering counter and table service tapas, opening today (9 June). Probably this country’s most consistent celebrity chef – from Pollen Street Social to City Social – Atherton’s restaurants are always a safe bet for “flavour popping” cuisine and “incredibly attentive” service, as far as our 2015 survey reporters are […]
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 Restaurants 22 May-3 […]
We feel, as do many of our reporters, that when it comes to the quest for great pizza there’s still no substitute for Franco Manca’s Brixton market original. But, that said, there’s certainly no shortage of eager customers flitting to their other outposts as the mushrooming Neopolitan chain announces further expansion with sites coming soon to […]
Restaurant group Prescott & Conran’s (behind The Boundary & Albion) have relaunched faithful old theatre standby Les Deux Salons with a brand new look. For those of our reporters who felt the place had “gone downhill” of late this will be a welcome piece of news. Staying true to its roots, Prescott & Conran have […]
Hot on the heels of its enormous 250-cover Mumbai-style cafe in King’s Cross, which opened in November last year, Dishoom has announced plans for a fourth London outpost. The “cool” and “different” chain has chosen shopping hub Carnaby Street for its next venture, just a few doors down from Cinnamon Soho on Kingly Street. Over […]
