Restaurants in the City have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic in an industry disproportionately hit overall. Which is why it is a dose of good news to learn the City of London Corporation has agreed to continue issuing pavement licences free of charge to suitable premises until the end of September. The six-month licences […]
Sven-Hanson Britt, finalist on MasterChef: The Professionals, has opened Homestead at London City Island, on Leamouth Peninsula. A takeaway, deli, and grocery store for lockdown, the site will also house a restaurant and bar once restrictions have been lifted. Britt opened the concept with director of operations Scott Ward and brand director Tris Hillier. James […]
A North London car showroom has launched a new luxury wine and deli. Hexagon Classics, a specialist car showroom in Highgate and East Finchley, opened Bottles ‘N’ Jars this month, with two floors of selected foods, coffees, teas, and wines and liquor. The focus is on neighbourhood entertaining, a growing trend due to the pandemic. […]
London restaurant owners have berated the government’s new tier 2 lockdown placed on the capital, which brings new restrictions but offers no financial support. Unlike the more severe tier 3 – which itself is not without difficulties, and still places extraordinary strain on businesses – all hospitality ventures are allowed to continue to trade, but […]
Historic French cookery school and culinary institute Le Cordon Bleu is to open a new fine dining restaurant, café, and cookery school concept in London. Named Cord, the 90-cover restaurant will launch in the City of London in spring and will open for lunch and dinner, Monday to Friday. There will be a tasting menu, […]
Bristol chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias has announced his new restaurant at the Standard hotel in King’s Cross will be called Decimo, and will blend Spanish and Mexican flavours. Decimo, on the top floor of the hotel, will open on October 10 and will be the chef’s first foray into London. Sanchez-Inglesias made him name at his […]
LA hype restaurant Eggslut (yes, that’s what it’s called), has opened in London. At a launch on Tuesday evening, half of West London’s Instagram influencers turned up to photograph egg, bacon and cheese buns, egg salad in brioche, and the ‘Slut’ (again, yes), which is potato puree bedded beneath a coddled egg and chives. In […]
Choosing the right venue is the first step in a successful ‘Power Lunch’. But dazzling cooking is seldom key to a successful business encounter: the agenda of a critic, and the agenda of an expense-accounter vary greatly. Swift service, an impressive backdrop, or a convenient location all often count for more. Choose your destination based […]
The team behind DUM Biryani will open Lucknow Social, a neighbourhood Indian restaurant specialising in Lucknowi cuisine, in March. Lucknow Social will serve food inspired by Awadhi cooking. In cities such as Lucknow, and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, dishes are cooked ‘low and slow’, with fluffy biryanis, galauti kebabs, and rich curries […]
Establishment favourite, The Goring – just behind Buck Pal, its dining room is one of the few restaurants to have fed The Queen; and the hotel itself was where the Middleton sisters shimmied into their respective dresses on the day Kate married Wills – is to open its first new restaurant at the hotel since […]
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