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 […]
D&D London’s Le Pont de la Tour may have “sensational” Tower Bridge views but our reporters noted a lack of passion food-wise in last year’s survey. Perhaps a new partnership is just the (ahem) caffeine injection the restaurant needs? The South Bank icon has teamed up with ethical coffee brand CRU Kafe to introduce a range […]
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. […]
After launching a second outpost in Whitechapel last year Soho spot Foxcroft & Ginger has opened another East London restaurant – this time a pop-up at Old Street station. The temporary cafe, which will be open for three months, arrived in trendy Shoreditch on 6 April and serves the UK’s first Cruffin (a croissant muffin hybrid). Foxcroft & […]
The Columbo Group – the folks behind Shoreditch and Camden’s Texan BBQ joints The Blues Kitchen – have just announced a third outpost coming to south London. The group has purchased the Electric Social in Brixton and will develop the site with a view to opening the restaurant and bar in autumn 2015. This will be the third […]
From its inauspicious roots as a Brixton Market pizzeria, Franco Manca – as famous for its queues as it is for its sourdough crust – has built an enviable restaurant empire. So enviable in fact that David Page’s Fulham Shore wants to buy it. The restaurant group behind The Real Greek (which saw an uptick in positive […]
