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    Hirst gallery hosts pop-up for Frieze week
    October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 HardensBytes

    A pair of young chefs are launching a pop-up called ‘Pario’ at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall next week, taking over the space left empty since the closure of Mark Hix’s Pharmacy 2 three years ago. George Brown, a private chef with plenty of pop-up experience, and Charlie Bryant, who has worked at […]

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    Review of the reviews: Where the critics ate this week
    April 4, 2016October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    AA Gill heads out to The Woodford in search of Ben Murphy’s cuisine (a young chef of just 25 who trained under Pierre Koffmann) and finds that The Only Way is Essex is in fact a real way of life and not, as the Sunday Times’s columnist previously thought, simply a ratings-courting fiction. Incidentally he loves […]

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    Review of the reviews: Where the critics ate this week
    March 21, 2016October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    The Sunday Times’s AA Gill revisits Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy in its new form as Pharmacy 2 in Vauxhall and finds things have changed considerably since the Notting Hill original launched in 1998, when the opening was ‘like a red-carpet premiere, a mob of paparazzi and rubberneckers, double-parked limos, teeth and tits’. “I was surprised at […]

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    Discover this week’s top 5 trending London restaurants
    March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 HardensBytes

    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. […]

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    Damien Hirst and Mark Hix open Pharmacy 2 in Vauxhall
    February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 HardensBytes

    Artist Damien Hirst has revived his Notting Hill venture Pharmacy (long RIP) as Pharmacy 2 at his gallery in Vauxhall. The day-time canteen and evening restaurant at Newport Street Gallery, opened in collaboration with Hirst’s long-time mate and supporter Mark Hix (The Tramshed, Hix Oyster & Chop House etc) on 23 February. The menu reflects […]

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