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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 […]
Diners disappointed at the recent news that Nest restaurant is to close after nine years will be cheered to learn that its owners plan to relaunch the Shoreditch venue as a ‘British bistro’ called Tavern. It will offer what they describe as “generous, nostalgic British cooking designed for more informal dining”, with sharing plates accompanied […]
High-profile Midlands chef Glynn Purnell has announced the closure of his pub The Mount in Henley-in-Arden after a turbulent two years in which he also closed his flagship restaurant, Purnells in Birmingham. Glynn opened The Mount near Stratford with Luke and Tania Fryer in 2022, and will run its final service on Sunday 15 March […]
The duo behind “Italian-ish” supper club-turned-restaurant Forza Wine complete a 14-year journey into the heart of London’s West End next week with the opening of their latest venue in Soho. Founders Bash Redford and Michael Lavery started out running supper clubs at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane under the name Forza Win, which they […]
New-wave Turkish chef Sertaç Dirik (right in picture) is linking up with Portuguese chef Marcelo Rodrigues to launch a new chef residency showcase at the St Martin’s Lane Hotel next week. The duo are the first in an ongoing series of residencies at Spotlight, which takes the place of the former Asia de Cuba restaurant […]
Chef Jackson Boxer has stepped in to help veteran Notting Hill cantina Taqueria “get its mojo back” as it enters its third decade. The Westbourne Grove venue will close on Monday next week (23 February) for a brief make-over before reopening on Tuesday 3 March as TAQ. Originally a street stall, Taqueria moved into its […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 15th February 2026 The Times & Sunday Times Materia Prima, Notting Hill Following her debut review of London’s oldest restaurant (Rules), new Sunday Times restaurant critic Camilla Long turned her attention to one of its newest, a “high-concept, Japanese-adjacent” […]
Star female chef Sally Abé is going it alone for the first time, having been the head chef at numerous high-profile restaurants. The ex-wife of Matt Abé of Bonheur: Sally made her name at the Harwood Arms (pictured above… oh my those pies were good) before channeling the girl-power of the suffragettes at The Pem […]
Three-and-a-half years after closing his Hackney wine bar the Laughing Heart, Charlie Mellor is back with Osteria Vibrato, an old-school Italian restaurant in Soho that opens on Valentine’s Day. Charlie (left in photo) is joined by fellow bearded sommelier Cameron Dewar (ex-Luca and Burnt Ends; right in photo) in the new Greek Street venture, which […]
An Indonesian celebrity couple are bringing a French-accented take on their national cuisine to London with the launch of Le Nusa restaurant in the Strand. Actor/singers-turned-entertainment entrepreneurs Raffi Ahmad and Nagita Slavina own several restaurants in Jakarta and beach clubs in Bali and Sumatra. They opened their first international restaurant in Paris three years ago, […]
An Asian restaurant that changes not just its menu but its cuisine every six weeks launches in Edinburgh later this month – with street food from Hong Kong its first culinary inspiration. Uncle Tiger, in Bristo Place on the edge of the Old Town, is the fourth venue from the Òir Group, who also run The […]
