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    Chet Sharma brings his bar snacks to the Langham
    May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 HardensBytes

    Chef Chet Sharma has designed a new menu of snacks and small plates for the plush Artesian cocktail bar at the The Langham hotel in Portland Place, which will be unveiled next week. Chet, whose hit Mayfair restaurant BiBi offers what the 2025 Harden’s guide describes as ‘possibly the best sophisticated Indian dining in town‘, […]

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    Changes afoot at grand London hotels
    August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 HardensBytes

    Mimosa restaurant at the Langham hotel and the Thames Foyer at the Savoy have closed down – the latter to be replaced by the new Savoy Lounge as the hotel’s venue for afternoon tea. Mimosa opened less than six months ago as a replacement for Michel Roux’s Roux at the Landau, and was the London outpost […]

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    Chef Dom Taylor brings rice and peas to the Langham
    July 21, 2023 HardensBytes

    South London chef Dom Taylor has opened an ambitious Caribbean restaurant in the West End’s luxury Langham hotel as the prize for winning a televised competition hosted by Michel Roux Jr. The Good Front Room opened the day after the result of Channel 4’s Five Star Kitchen was announced, taking over the Langham’s Palm Court […]

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    The Langham hotel to launch cookery school
    March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 HardensBytes

    The Langham hotel is to launch its first cookery school in its 153-year history. Called Sauce, the operation will be fronted by executive chef Chris King and Michel Roux Jr., who oversee Roux at the Landau and The Wigmore pub. Classes will range from core culinary skills such as knife work and baking to more […]

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    TÁ TÁ Eatery enters new lease of life – this time, in Shoreditch
    December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 HardensBytes

    Former pop-up TÁ TÁ Eatery is to open a nearly, possibly permanent site in Old Street. The restaurant left Borough Wines in Kensal Rise some time ago, and has since been without a home. The European, Japanese fusion food concept has seen widespread success after launching in multiple temporary sites across London, and has now found […]

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    Clare Smyth tops London Restaurant Awards
    September 11, 2018September 13, 2018 HardensBytes

    Clare Smyth tops London Restaurants Awards • Second female winner in as many years, as her team accept the award from last year’s winner, Marianne Lumb Harden’s unveiled the winners of its definitive 2018 London Restaurant Awards at a glittering gala ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of The Langham, London, sponsored by The Langham hotel […]

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    Harden’s review of the reviews
    September 25, 2017October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    When Grace Dent reviewed The Langham’s new ‘pub’ The Wigmore, she decided she never, ever wanted to go there again. We would hazard a guess that The Guardian’s Marina O’Loughlin would be quite happy to go back any time…“Silly? A bit. Delicious? Oh yes.” “Creative cocktails in their own weeny tankards… pies and roasts and toasties… reimagined […]

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    Harden’s review of the reviews
    September 19, 2017October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    This week Jay Rayner reviewed Notting Hill’s family-run Italian, Da Maria, in the Observer, remarking that it’s the kind of place that ‘keeps London human and, more to the point, humane’. A shame then that it may be demolished to make way for an expanded cinema foyer. You know who’s side Jay is on… “Da Maria […]

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    Harden’s review of the reviews
    September 11, 2017October 6, 2023 HardensBytes

    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 […]

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    Get ready for Michel Roux Jr’s take on the Great British Pub
    July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 HardensBytes

    The Wigmore, a new modern British tavern – with its menu overseen by Michel Roux Jr (yes, you read that right!) – will open on Regent Street on 20 July. This deluxe re-imagining of the Great British pub will serve a drinks list from the team behind Artesian, The Langham’s award-winning bar (and servers of […]

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