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    Park Chinois team to launch casual brasserie
    June 21, 2019June 27, 2019 HardensBytes

    Luxury Mayfair restaurant Park Chinois is opening a casual brasserie next month. The Chinese restaurant, originally founded by industry heavyweight Alan Yau (although he left in 2016), has long proved divisive to critics. Where it is “opulent”, it is monstrously “OTT”, and where the food might be “delicious”, many believe dishes don’t live up to […]

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    Alan Yau’s Turkish restaurant Babaji has closed ‘due to a technical issue’
    September 27, 2018September 28, 2018 HardensBytes

    Babaji, the Soho pide restaurant founded by veteran restaurateur Alan Yau, has closed. The news broke by way of a notice taped to the front door, which read: “Restaurant closed by the official receiver”. Uncertainty surrounded the Turkish concept restaurant back in March. Babaji rode it out for a time, but word of possible issues […]

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    Harden’s review of the reviews
    November 21, 2016October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    ⦿ AA Gill of the Sunday Times opened his review of The Magpie Café 5/5 in Whitby with the bombshell that he has cancer, an announcement that – uniquely perhaps for a restaurant review – was trailed by a front-page report. “I’ve got an embarrassment of cancer, the full English,” he wrote, promising to let his readers know […]

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    Harden’s review of the reviews: Where the critics ate this week
    January 11, 2016October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    The Observer’s Jay Rayner finds a very generous sunday lunch at reasonable prices (always a welcome surprise in central London) at the latest venture from the Goodman Group, Zelman Meats. This new meat-focused venue took over the site of keenly priced Soho seafood spot Rex & Mariano (also a Goodman enterprise) late last year… “Yes, […]

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    Harden’s review of the reviews: Where the critics ate this week
    November 30, 2015October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    Last week The Times’s Giles Coren was drooling over his keyboard at the very thought of another meal at Brad McDonald’s new Deep South-influenced Soho haunt Shotgun. This week his colleague AA Gill over at the Sunday Times takes said shotgun and fires both barrels at the place in his Table Talk column… “The first […]

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