Sune, a Nordic-inspired neighbourhood restaurant with an emphasis on wine and hospitality, is the latest addition to Broadway Market in Hackney, opening on Wednesday 29 November. The couple behind it, Honey Spencer and Charlie Sims, have both worked in Copenhagen, where Charlie did a stint at Noma while Honey was mentored by legendary wine importer […]
Marylebone’s revolving creative hub, Carousel, has announced its upcoming roster of guest chef residencies. This spring the restaurant will host an unprecedented range of global chefs working alongside Ollie Templeton and his team to prepare a four or five-course dinner menu that showcases their signature style, using seasonal produce from the British Isles. Among the highlights, […]
Ikoyi, an upmarket new restaurant showcasing the cuisine of West Africa, is to open in July in the new St James’s Market just south of Piccadilly Circus. It is a joint venture from school friends Iré Hassan-Odukale (pictured left), who was born in Ikoye, a cosmopolitan area of Lagos in Nigeria, and chef Jeremy Chan (right), whose […]
Chefs, restaurateurs and industry types last night made their annual pilgrimage to London for the unveiling of the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. As usual, the ranking offered few surprises. El Cellar de Can Roca in Girona, Spain, reclaimed the top spot (which it last held in 2013) while Denmark’s Noma slipped down into third […]
Thomasina Miers’s chain of “sociable” Mexican street food joints, Wahaca, will host a supper club with Roberto Solis – known as the leader of the New Yucatecan cuisine (obvs). The event, featuring Miers in the kitchen too, will take place on 14 April in the restaurant group’s Covent Garden branch. It will be the second […]
Can food really be art? Shuttlecock Inc hopes to deliver a spirited case for the defence in the form of Carousel – a new interactive space opening this August in Marylebone. The self-style ‘foodie nomads’ (pop-up dining operatives to the rest of us) will open a three storey interactive and immersive restaurant/gallery which delves not […]
The Taste of London festival is now on in Regent’s Park. With dozens of demonstrations, masterclasses and tastings featuring great restaurants and chefs, Taste is a treat for any London food lover. But don’t take our word for it, Pascal Aussignac, chef/patron of Club Gascon gives his thoughts on the festival… “Taste of London provides an […]
With more buzz than a nest of angry hornets, it was proclaimed in February that Lee Westcott (formerly of the unstoppable Jason Atherton empire) would step in to replace Nuno Mendes’ Viajante at the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green. And finally the much-heralded restaurant, Typing Room, opens today (16 May). The 40-cover dining room […]
