Martin Morales, the restaurateur behind Ceviche Soho and Ceviche Old St (pictured) and Shoreditch’s Andina, is set to launch a fourth Peruvian restaurant in London. Casita Andina is inspired by Peru’s ‘picanterias’ – family run, traditional restaurants – serving traditional Andean dishes and snacks. The venue will incorporate a pisco bar, ceviche counter, dining room […]
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. […]
Anthony Demetre of Soho’s Arbutus has teamed up with Searcys once again (they successfully launched Urban Coterie at the Montcalm Hotel in Shoreditch last year). This time Demetre and Searcys have jazzed up the food offering at the Barbican Centre with a new Italian serving charcuterie alongside pasta dishes and suckling pig. Osteria, launched on 11 February 2016 […]
A new Southern US-inspired chicken specialist arrives in Spitalfields Market in March with plans to open a second outlet in Soho later this year. Absurd Bird hopes to launch further sites across the UK over the coming months. The restaurant has partnered with Fosse Meadows Farm, which is dedicated to traditional free range, slow farm rearing techniques and […]
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. […]
Queen of cupcakes and afternoon tea Bea Vo (Bea’s of Bloomsbury) branched out into American diner fare last year when she opened Stax in Carnaby Street’s Kingly Court. Now the restaurateur has announced a second US-inspired burger and diner joint Boondocks, slated to arrive this spring just behind Moorfields Eye Hospital in Shoreditch. The new […]
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 […]
The Jones Family Project has just launched a new sharing Negroni cocktail – and we’re offering you the chance to try one for free! Take a friend along to this welcoming bar and grill in trendy Shoreditch and split a fruit-infused Negroni (London’s fashionable drink of the moment) served in a porthole-shaped container. Officially the […]
This summer Red’s True Barbecue bucked the trend of southern restaurants heading to Manchester (Hawksmoor, Iberica, Burger & Lobster etc) by bringing a northern-only operation to the big smoke. Now this chain of US-inspired, dude food emporia has announced the acquisition of another new site, opening in Liverpool in November. The building, on Hanover Street, a former […]
Shoreditch will get just a little bit hipper this summer as new ‘Nordic Smokehouse’ restaurant and bar, Rök, opens on Curtain Road in August. Taking over the site of an old east London café, the owners have turned the space into a 40-cover restaurant and bar open for lunch, dinner and late night drinks with a downstairs […]
