A new twist on London’s ubiquitous chicken shop (there are now over 8,000 of these grungy fast food joints) opened in the badlands of Tottenham on 9 November. Chicken Town by Create is a new, part crowd-funded, food and community project that claims it will ‘tackle child obesity at its source’. It’s a problem that is particularly […]
After launching the Ivy Market Grill in 2014 and the Ivy Chelsea Garden earlier this year, Richard Caring has further expanded his most bankable brand. His restaurant group Caprice Holdings have snapped up the former site of Pavilion in Kensington – a surprisingly short-lived venture by Foxton’s estate agency founder Jon Hunt and chef Adam […]
Richard Caring’s hotly-anticipated new venture on Berkeley Square officially opens today (19 October). It has been almost a year and a half since the restaurateur’s Caprice Holdings group snapped up the Mayfair site and for much of that time a shroud of secrecy has surrounded the restaurant. Even the name was not announced until quite […]
Love them or loathe them, the mobile phone is now an integral part of dining out. From browsing the latest food trends on the Harden’s app, to sharing the latest #FoodPorn pictures on Instagram, the humble mobile phone has certainly helped to spread the word of restaurants far and wide, beyond a simple advertisement in […]
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 8-14 October […]
Bringing a bit of ’80s kitsch to Islington – as well as a taste of mainland China – is a new all-day dining room, Chinese Laundry. Designed to look like an average Chinese home (from the era of leg-warmers and Walkmans), the restaurant serves traditional cuisine and an exotic cocktail list with white spirits (baijiu). On the […]
Mission, the second project from husband and wife team Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wilde (also behind Sager & Wilde funnily enough), has acquired a hot new head chef straight from paparazzi-magnet the Chiltern Firehouse. Aussie chef Sebastien Myers is part of a brand new team for the Bethnal Green restaurant, which also includes: Marcis Dzelzainis of […]
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 24-30 September […]
Oktoberfest – more like Oktobeerfest (right?!) – has begun, but you don’t need to travel to München to enjoy oompah bands, Lederhosen and frothy ales and lagers by the Stein. London has taken this very Bavarian tradition to heart, and restaurants around the capital are celebrating with guest beers, special menus and tankards so large […]
