Celeb chef Valentine Warner (of the Beeb’s What to Eat Now) is taking over the kitchen at Snaps + Rye on 23 April. The supper club ‘Valentine Warner Cooks Scandinavia’ is inspired by his travels around the Nordic nations. Guests will be greeted with a welcome cocktail before sitting down to a three course dinner. On the […]
On 1 May Des McDonald will launch his third pop-up restaurant at Selfridges; On the Roof with Vintage Salt. Open for five months, Vintage Salt will kick off Selfridges’ ‘Great British Outdoors’ campaign. Inspired by a Cornish fishing village, the restaurant will have al fresco dining and plenty of nautical nods – including deck chairs and […]
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. […]
Scott Hallsworth has been a busy boy – not only has he opened two branches of izakaya-style restaurant, Kurobuta in the last year, he’s also just launched Joe’s Oriental Diner in Chelsea. His partnership with nightclub supremos Piers Adam and David Phelps (of Mayfair’s Mahiki) didn’t last long though with the ex Nobu chef quitting their joint […]
Now that the warm weather has finally arrived what better way to start the day than enjoying a Levantine-inspired breakfast? Harden’s has teamed up with “friendly” and “buzzy” Borough Market newcomer Arabica Bar & Kitchen to offer one lucky reader and their guest the chance to sample the restaurant’s brand new breakfast/brunch menu. Choose two […]
Demonstrating just how far cooking in this country has come in the last 20 years – the top 10 modern British restaurants in London, according to our 2015 survey. The Ledbury W11 “Superb meals seem natural”, at Brett Graham’s “flawless” Notting Hill stand-out: yet again London’s No. 1 restaurant; there’s “no pomp” – staff […]
Fried chicken under a railway bridge in Shoreditch? We know what you’re thinking, but BIRD doesn’t try too hard to be hip according to our 2015 survey. Next week readers can enjoy 50% off the diner’s new lunch menu, available Monday-Friday 12-5pm from 20 April. There will be new dishes on the menu, including the Fried Chicken Biscuit […]
The people behind one of London’s most talked about restaurants, Gymkhana, have backed a new venture serving Taiwanese street food. Karam Sethi and his family, founders of Mayfair’s hottest nouvelle Indian – the 12th most mentioned restaurant in our 2015 survey – have thrown their weight behind Bao, which began life as a stall at […]
The Gladwin brothers – the trio behind London’s “quirky” faux rustic Notting Hill spot The Shed and Chelsea’s Rabbit – will open up their family run vineyards to the general public for the first time from May. Visitors to Nutbourne in West Sussex can take part tastings and see how the grape goes from the vine to bottle to […]