Looking for the best places to celebrate the New Year in style, watch the fireworks display or perhaps just enjoy a fun night out with friends that doesn’t cost the earth? Look no further, our New Year’s Eve roundup has something for everyone… Fera at Claridge’s W1 £975 per person Goodness it isn’t […]
The duo behind some of London’s most popular Spanish restaurants – Copita in Soho as well as Fitzrovia’s Barrica and Drakes Tabanco – are to open an east London outpost. Tim Luther and Nigel Howell will launch Copita del Mercado in Wentworth Road, just by Petticoat Lane Market, on 8 December. Fans of the restaurateurs’ […]
Korean fast food concept, Bibigo Bar and Dining, will open its second London outpost in Islington on the site of Alan Yau’s former Naamyaa Café. The restaurateur’s informal Thai-style café – intended as the prototype of a chain – unexpectedly closed in January, less than two years after it opened. In January the St John […]
The brothers behind The Shed, a delightfully ramshackle farm-to-table restaurant in Notting Hill, have launched their first cookbook – and you could be in with a chance of winning a signed copy. Impress your family and friends this Christmas with stunning seasonal recipes from Oliver, Richard and Gregory Gladwin’s The Shed: The Cookbook. The book […]
A brand new café and bar has opened on Stoke Newington’s Church Street. The site – formerly White Rabbit and before that celeb hangout The Baby Bathhouse (notably a favourite spot of Amy Winehouse back in the day) – was bought this summer by Marc Dalla-Riva and Matthew Rix, the duo behind The Blacksmith & […]
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. From cocktails at […]
The Editors’ review of Heddon Street Kitchen It’s a competent operation but we can’t help but feel Ramsay’s association has inflated prices. Grace Dent can’t find her sea legs at Sea Containers Why would anyone call a restaurant something so “bloody awful”? the Evening Standard’s reviewer wants to know. Tuscan wine dynasty opens […]
Just off Regent Street, a handy brasserie-style operation serving thoroughly competent but rather unremarkable dishes at prices seemingly inflated by association with proprietor Gordon Ramsay. You never quite know what to expect at a Gordon Ramsay establishment. Within a mile or so of each other, you can have places which are very good (Pétrus, say), and […]
The Frescobaldi family – who have produced some of Tuscany’s finest vintages since 1308 – have opened their first restaurant and wine bar outside of Italy. No prizes for guessing where they have chosen for their foray into foreign territory. So, Ristorante Frescobaldi follows in the footsteps of Quattro Passi and Assunta Madre by choosing […]
