A collaboration between ex-Mayfields chef Matthew Young and sommelier Jack Lewens, formerly of Spring and River Café – due to open on 20 November in Hackney’s Netil House – is sure to have east London foodsters (foodie-hipsters) excited. And foodies in general if we’re honest. Young’s food has been praised by everyone from the broadsheet big guns […]
Jun Tanaka, previously of Midtown’s impressive (but expensive) Pearl (RIP), will launch his first solo restaurant – a casual French-Mediterranean on Fitzrovia’s main dining drag, Charlotte Street – next week. And the chef is offering diners 50% off food during the soft launch of The Ninth from 19-21 November, in advance of the official opening on […]
Significant changes have been introduced at Mikael Jonsson’s outer Chiswick open-kitchen venture Hedone. The lauded “truly staggering!” restaurant – which snagged a coveted place on the Harden’s top 10 gastronomic experiences in London list this year – has reopened after a short closure without a conventional menu and also sans a few seats. Only 24 […]
D&D London has finally opened its Mittel-European-style Grand Café and bar, the German Gymnasium – a long-anticipated renovation of a former Grade II listed gymnasium in King’s Cross. Designed by London-born architect Edward Gruning in 1865, this was the first purpose-built gym in England and hosted the inaugural indoor events of the 1866 Olympic Games. 150 years later, this […]
Another new resident is slated to open in King’s Cross restaurant hub Granary Square as Cubitt House’s sister company Open House launches its second London offering next year. Like Percy & Founders in Fitzrovia, which opened in spring 2015, The Lighterman’s food offering will be overseen by the group’s exec chef Diego Cardoso (formerly of […]
A new twist on London’s ubiquitous chicken shop (there are now over 8,000 of these grungy fast food joints) opened in the badlands of Tottenham on 9 November. Chicken Town by Create is a new, part crowd-funded, food and community project that claims it will ‘tackle child obesity at its source’. It’s a problem that is particularly […]
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. Trending Restaurants 29 October […]
‘Supplier-to-table’ seafood venture in the heart of Soho, Rex & Mariano, which closed after less than a year, has been replaced by another meat-focused venture from the Goodman group. Zelman Meats – courtesy of the company that brought us Goodman steak houses and Burger & Lobster – took over the St Anne’s Court site today (3 November). Surprisingly […]
Since Pied à Terre chef Marcus Eaves first announced his surprise move from one of the capital’s foremost foodie temples, to spearheading the ‘urban casual’ dining at The Shard’s eyrie Oblix, we have wondered who would replace him. Now we know that sister restaurant L’Autre Pied‘s chef Andy McFadden has taken the reins at David Moore’s “plush” Fitzrovia […]
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. Trending Restaurants 22-28 October […]
