High-profile pastry chef, writer and Junior Bake Off judge Ravneet Gill and her fellow-chef husband Mattie Taiano have this week opened their first restaurant, a ‘chophouse’ called Gina in Chingford, on north London’s Essex outskirts. The restaurant – for many years a family-run Italian local, next door to the station – is named in memory of […]
What a short memory the food community in London seems to have. There has been a huge amount of press trumpeting the arrival of ‘London’s first dessert restaurant’ as Café Royal on Regent Street prepares to relaunch The Café in March as a venue for sweet treats only. Does nobody recall the Pudding Bar on […]
This June a new café Halva Bakery comes to the Fulham Road, courtesy of classically trained pastry chef Lila Sarhang Zadeh. The dine-in and take away spot offers a range of homemade bread (from basil to vanilla flavour), pastries and cakes, as well as breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. As well as croissants and pain au chocolate, Halva also […]
