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A new, fun-filled, exploratory wine trip, with the aim of introducing you to new or perhaps unfamiliar grape sensations! Launching this week: Blind wine flight at The Colony Grill Room, Mayfair This month, The Colony Grill Room at The Beaumont hotel in Mayfair are introducing their “Wine Discovery Journeys”, a newly launched blind wine flight that will see Sommeliers […]
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Founded by Ben and Alice, a RiSE coffee subscription box is for coffee lovers, from coffee lovers. The RiSE promise: to deliver you independent, sustainable and premium coffee that you can’t find anywhere else. At RiSE coffee box, they blind taste and choose only the best premium coffees from across the UK. From the smallest […]
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Deadline: June 26 At last, we’re back to doing what we love: finding out from diners what they think of their favourite restaurants. In case you are new to Harden’s, the ratings and reviews on our website, app and print guides are based on our Annual National Diners Poll. And your vote is invited! Please […]
Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 25 April 2021. ***** England now has a ‘roadmap’ of dates for the re-opening of restaurants and pubs, which are now allowed to serve single households seated outdoors. Inside dining can start from 17 May […]
6 March 2019 Exclusive “Celebration of Iceland” dinner at London’s #1 restaurant Harden’s invites you to a Celebration of Iceland dinner with Agnar Sverrisson, chef-patron of Texture, #1 rated for food in Harden’s 2019 survey Tickets are now on sale for an exciting one-off dinner at Texture in Marylebone celebrating Icelandic cuisine; we invite you to secure your place […]
For the fifth year, the Sunday Times today publishes the ‘Food List’ – the top 100 UK restaurants for food. This supplement is published in association with Harden’s, and based on the our annual survey of restaurant-goers. For 2015 there’s been a serious shakeup, with last year’s top three – Gidleigh Park, Andrew Fairlie at […]
Squatters targeting venues closed down by celeb chefs have this week ended their occupation of London sites formerly run by Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White. Police evicted as many as 400 squatters from Mr White’s ‘steak, pizza and gin house’ in Leicester Square, which closed down in February after a two-year run. Another group […]
‘Mostly vegan’ chef Rishim Sachdeva is to open a new café at Somerset House on the Strand next month, following his launch last year of restaurant Tendril in Mayfair. His new ‘plant-first’ all-day venture, Café Petiole – named after the thin stalk connecting a leaf to a stem – will feature pastries and desserts from Tendril’s head […]
Former D&D London restaurateur Des Gunewardena will make his comeback this summer with two new openings at the City of London’s Royal Exchange, which will be the flagship of his new company D3 Collective. Engel, a cocktail bar with a live space for cabaret, will occupy the north and east mezzanines of the early Victorian […]
High-flying Birmingham chef Brad Carter will open his first London restaurant this summer – in the basement of a historic church, St George’s in Hanover Square, Mayfair. Called Undercroft, the ambitious restaurant will showcase forgotten dishes such as wild garlic chicken toast, sea tripe and seaweed soup, Tamworth pork with creamed snails, and duck with offal […]
Brothers Chris and Jeff Galvin have announced that Galvin at Windows, their restaurant on the 28th floor of the Park Lane Hilton, is to close down next week. The brothers released the news in an Instagram post which read: “It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Galvin at Windows. We’ve cherished […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 14th April 2024 The Evening Standard The Bear, Camberwell Jimi Famurewa was nonplussed by a revamped neighbourhood boozer that had been closed for six years before being rescued by Teddy Roberts and chef Joe Sharratt, formerly of Brixton hotspot […]
Park Row, the ambitious Batman comic-themed ‘experiential dining’ complex off Piccadilly Circus, and TV chef Monica Galetti’s Mere have this week both announced their closure. Monica and her husband David Galetti will serve their last meal next Tuesday, April 17, after seven years in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia. Park Row has shuttered after a two-and-a-half-year run, […]
José Pizarro is to open his third restaurant in Bermondsey Street this summer. Called Lolo, his sixth London venue will be an all-day operation and his first to serve breakfast. The launch comes as the influential chef – who was recently awarded a Spanish knighthood – celebrates 25 years in London. With its close proximity to his […]
Far from fading into retirement following the closure earlier this year of Le Gavroche, Michel Roux has two new ventures lined up for the months ahead: a new spot at the Langham hotel, his long-time perch in Portland Place, opening in May, and what is billed as a unique live entertainment restaurant at a historic […]
A glossy Chinese restaurant which justifies dressing up for dinner opens in Glasgow city centre next week. Paul Sloan of the Hunky Dory Group hopes Zhima will “bring to Glasgow what Hakkasan does to London and Tattu does to Edinburgh – an elegant, adventurous dining destination“. The million-pound pound project has been in development for four […]
