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    Bodean’s open 7th London BBQ joint in Covent Garden with 50% off food
    April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 HardensBytes

    Kansas City-style BBQ joint, Bodean’s, has announced that its seventh hog hotspot will open in Covent Garden on 12 April. The new restaurant will offer 50% off food (lunch and dinner) during its soft launch, 12-14 April (inclusive). The discount is only available for direct bookings via coventgarden@bodeansbbq.com. The group has taken over the former […]

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    Discover this week’s top 5 trending London restaurants
    March 17, 2016March 17, 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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    Discover this week’s top 5 trending London restaurants
    February 25, 2016February 25, 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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    Review of the reviews: Where the critics ate this week
    February 22, 2016October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    AA Gill reviews Notting Hill’s new vegetarian restaurant Tiny Leaf in the Sunday Times but decides London still needs a decent veggie venue “It’s the good intentions that sink vegetative restaurants. They are selling the goodness of their intentions in the hope that you’re more interested in filling the karma bank than your stomach. The […]

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    Win dinner for two with champagne at Old Tom & English
    February 11, 2016February 18, 2016 HardensBytes

    We’ve teamed up with Soho’s “quirky” speakeasy-style hideaway, Old Tom & English, to offer one lucky Harden’s reader (and their guest) the chance to win dinner for two. The prize includes four of the restaurant’s delicious small plates per person, and a glass of champagne on arrival. Enter Old Tom & English through its “discreet” […]

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    D&D London to reopen Floridita and Carom as 100 Wardour Street
    January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 HardensBytes

    Good grief but D&D London are really going for it at the moment! Not only did they launch the gargantuan 400-odd-cover German Gymnasium in King’s Cross last year, and install chef Francesco Mazzei at the newly refurbished Sartoria, but the group has just unveiled photos from its newest venture on the former site of Floridita […]

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    Have a good auld time in London this Burns’ Night
    January 13, 2016January 22, 2016 HardensBytes

    Go the traditional route Mac & Wild W1 Available 23-30 January 2016 £35 pp If it’s fine Highland produce you’re after this Burns’ Night, look no further than Fitzrovia’s new(ish) star, from the folks behind pop-up sensation The Wild Game Company. Mac & Wild will be celebrating the Scottish bard Robbie Burns for a whole […]

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    Bone Daddies’s Shackfuyu relaunches in Soho as permanent fixture
    December 3, 2015 HardensBytes

    Shackfuyu, the sister restaurant to Bone Daddies and Flesh & Buns, which opened last February as a 12-month pop-up in Soho, has relaunched as a permanent fixture after an extensive refurb’. As well as a new look, the modern Japanese menu has also been updated. Diners will now find a brand new bar with marble […]

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    House of Ho opens on the former site of Caprice Holdings’ Bam-Bou
    December 2, 2015December 2, 2015 HardensBytes

    A new flagship version of Vietnamese restaurant House of Ho has opened on the former site of Caprice Holdings’ Bam-Bou. The original, which opened in Soho’s Old Compton Street nearly two years ago, has been relaunched as simply ‘Ho’. Its celebrity chef founder, Bobby Chinn, has since left the business and a new owner, Jeff Lim, […]

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    Goodman opens Zelman Meats on the site of Rex & Mariano
    November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 HardensBytes

    ‘Supplier-to-table’ seafood venture in the heart of Soho, Rex & Mariano, which closed after less than a year, has been replaced by another meat-focused venture from the Goodman group. Zelman Meats – courtesy of the company that brought us Goodman steak houses and Burger & Lobster – took over the St Anne’s Court site today (3 November). Surprisingly […]

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