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Gilly’s Fry Bar is to move to the West End after a successful opening in Finsbury Park. Neil Gill, who styled the restaurant on the Sunderland chip shops of his youth and a classic Japanese izakaya (pub), closed Gilly’s on Wednesday with a more central launch to come later this year. “We’ve had such a […]
The chef’s behind Stokey’s mega popular brunch spot The Good Egg (just check out that weekend perma-queue!) bring their unique mix of Middle Eastern cooking and spicing with British ingredients to Soho’s Kingly Court this December. The follow-up draws on the distinctive Jewish café-culture of Montreal and Tel-Aviv’s vibrant street-food scene for an all-day restaurant, […]
Yes, it’s National Curry Week (and there’s also Diwali right around the corner on 19 October) but honestly do you really need an excuse to try any of these mouth-watering dishes? We’ve rounded up our top five favourite Indian dishes from restaurants across London. From kid goat brains at Mayfair’s Gymkhana to street food style […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer keeps things on The Straight and Narrow, a piano bar and restaurant in east London’s Docklands… “Food and music are meant to go together. Jazz, which is what I have spent most of my adult life at the keyboard wrestling with, was born in restaurants like this. “The Straight and Narrow has […]
London’’s first sparkling wine bar – inspired by the cava bars of Barcelona – will be popping its cork in the heart of Soho this summer. Fiz will run a 10-week residency from 20 June at eclectic neon art gallery Lights of Soho on Brewer Street. The team behind Fiz (Barnaby Lewis, Max Bigland and […]
It’s National Barbecue Week, so that means hunching over the rusty old Webber in your back garden with an umbrella – right? Not according to Giles Coren. He reviews Shoreditch’s Rök and Smokestak with such enthusiasm that he implores readers to visit one of these two smokehouses, rather than light the barbie in their own […]
(Image credit – Mint Leaf Restaurant) With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, what better time to remind readers of the capital’s top 10 restaurants for romance, as voted for in our annual London restaurant survey: we achieved 7,500 participants in the 2017 survey. The coveted top spots are unchanged from last year, with Clos Maggiore, La Poule […]
New York is ‘the city that never sleeps’, and Parisians have long been used to the idea of the all-night brasserie. Meanwhile here in London, plans for the 24-hour tube have finally, finally come to fruition with the central and Victoria lines the first to go all night from 19 August. Despite the delays to the […]
Soho’s treasured gelateria Gelupo – “blood orange sorbet… be still my beating heart!” – has introduced a collection of new seasonal gelato, sorbets and ice cream to its menu. Newly developed flavours include: Apricot Crumble, White Chocolate & Lavender, Yogurt & Berries, and Strawberry Sherbert. Reminiscent of the fragrant, fresh flavours of the Amalfi Coast, and inspired […]
Founders of Bao – the über-popular street-food-vendor-turned-permanent-Soho-restaurant – Wai Ting Chung, Shing Chung and Erchen Chang, opened a second site for their Taiwanese steamed buns today (7 July). The trio have taken over the former site of Boopshis in Fitzrovia. Bao Fitzrovia will hopefully go some way towards calming the ravenous hoards queuing 100-deep outside the […]
