Borough Market fixture Brindisa will celebrate a decade of serving tapas this year. To mark the occasion the restaurant group, which now has four sites, is to offer customers a week of Spanish feasting at the prices of 10 years ago. From 13-19 October, Brindisa’s top 10 tapas dishes – padron peppers, chorizo, garlic chilli prawns, tortillas, […]
A new Hawaiian restaurant in Dalston has seemingly done the impossible. It has managed to open its doors without a single pineapple burger or pizza on the menu. The Pond, brought to us by the chaps behind Beavertown Brewery and Duke’s Brew & Que, is housed within an old warehouse. The menu, which – attention […]
Vietnamese restaurant group Pho is growing apace with the addition of another City site – the One New Change shopping centre near St Paul’s, also home to Jamie’s Barbecoa and Gordo’s Bread Street Kitchen. Opening on the former site of a Caffe Concerto, it will be the company’s twelfth outlet and the largest to date, with 110-covers and […]
Morgans Hotel Group – named after the New York boutique hotel established by the legendary Ian (Studio 54) Schrager 30 years ago – has launched its first Mondrian hotel outside the US. Where? London, of course. The Mondrian London arrived at Sea Containers House on the South Bank in August, with its restaurant opening on 30 September. The […]
The expansion of Porky’s BBQ is fairly picking up speed with the announcement of its second new site this year. An outpost of the barbecue joint, specialising in American-style smoked meats, arrived on the South Bank’s Globe Walk in June and now another restaurant is planned for late October. This latest Porky’s will open in the Boxpark […]
Battersea Power Station developers are clearly attempting to up their street cred with the insertion of a street-food market at the £8bn project. Plans to turn the iconic building into a hub of shops, restaurants and bars – with commercial and residential space – are already under way, and developers have now announced this hip […]
London’s love affair with the all-American barbecue continues with the launch of a new rib shack in South Kensington on 12 September. Crib de Rib is a restaurant, cocktail bar and private dining venue, serving short rib of beef – marinated for 24 hours before being slow cooked, then charcoal roasted – as well as […]
A new all-day café, Fields – big sister to Balham’s much-loved M1LK – is coming to Clapham at the end of September. This latest offering from Julian Porter and Lauren Heaphy will open not far from Clapham Common, next to the skate park on Rookery Road. Bang on trend for eco-friendly foodies, Fields will have […]
Claude Bosi is off to join his brother Cedric for a bit of country air in the pair’s spiritual home – Ludlow. The quaint Shropshire town was firmly fixed on the foodie map back in 2000, thanks in large part to the success of Claude’s restaurant Hibiscus, which he moved to Mayfair – never entirely […]
