Today (26 August) saw the unveiling of the Waitrose Good Food Guide’s top 50 UK restaurants with Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in Cartmel taking pole position for the second year. So far, so good. We wouldn’t begrudge Mr Rogan the top spot, he was within a hair’s breadth of topping our survey last year and – without […]
Dining in Seven Dials continues its upward trajectory, as the people behind long-time Soho favourite Bocca di Lupo follow in Marcus Wareing and Russell Norman’s footsteps to open a restaurant there. Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo, of the lauded tapas-style Italian, will launch their second London outpost, Vico, in late-August right next door to Norman’s Ape […]
The capital’s ultimate food experience for high-fliers will return in September. The London in the Sky restaurant, suspended 25m from the ground, appeared in Canary Wharf last year and this year will take to the skies above St Katherine’s Dock, giving diners a unique view of iconic Tower Bridge. The restaurant, which seats 22, will […]
Lee Skeet, former head chef at Hedone, will take up a four week residency at Hackney Empire’s Stage 3 this July. Following a stint at Marylebone’s Carousel in April, and a three day pop-up in Brixton, this is his first solo venture. Although most recently heading up the kitchen at Chiswick’s “truly staggering” Scandi-esque favourite, Hedone, Skeet […]
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 […]
Marcus Wareing will open his new, stand-alone restaurant Tredwell’s, in Seven Dials, next month. This is the first time Marcus Wareing Restaurants has opened an establishment not backed by a hotel. The group’s other sites, the Gilbert Scott and Marcus, are in the Renaissance Hotel at St Pancras and the Berkeley in Knightsbridge respectively. Tredwell’s, apparently […]
The Editors’ review of Marcus We check out The Berkeley’s new look ‘casual’ dining room. Not all that casual, obviously. Fay Maschler isn’t wild about Fera at Claridge’s The Evening Standard critic finds the bill at Simon Rogan’s new restaurant is a little too rich for her tastes. Typing Room opens at the […]
If you balked at the not-so-casual prices when Marcus Wareing relaunched his new-look dining room at the Berkeley earlier this month, don’t despair. You can now – for one day only – enjoy MARCUS on the (relatively) cheap. This May Day (5 May) the Knightsbridge restaurant is offering a three course lunch for just £50 (instead of the […]
We review Barnyard (Harden’s) The food at Ollie Dabous’s new Fitzrovia restaurant is done to a ‘high standard, at reasonable prices’. Stevie Parle opens Rotorino in Dalston (Harden’s) Dock Kitchen chef’s new Italian osteria is backed by Street Feast man Jonathan Downey. Grace Dent reviews Marcus, post refurb (Evening Standard) She’s still not […]
Neapolitan or Sicilian? Everything you need to know about New York pizza (Eater) Ms Maschler left ‘happy as a clam’ by Camberwell Arms (Evening Standard) New look, (sort-of) new name: Marcus Wareing reopening at the Berkley as MARCUS (Harden’s) Chancellor knocks penny off a pint (BBC News) We say goodbye to some old-timer London restaurants […]
