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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 […]
Adam Simmonds (pictured), Nuno Mendes and Dom Taylor are among the high-profile chefs to lose out as a batch of London restaurants reshuffled their options this week. The Megaro Hotel near King’s Cross announced the immediate closure of Voyage with Adam Simmonds, the Scandinavian-inspired restaurant that opened in January to mixed reviews from the critics […]
Highly rated northwest-based chef Andrew Sheridan is to open a new all-day restaurant in Chester – the city where he kicked off his career. Andrew has taken over the former Da Noi restaurant on Bridge Street and will relaunch it next month as Noted. Best known for his Liverpool flagship Restaurant 8 by Andrew Sheridan, the […]
The vaunted Chancery Rosewood hotel in the former US Embassy in Mayfair is now on a soft opening ahead of its formal launch on September 1st – without the promised revival of Richard Caring’s flagship restaurant Le Caprice. Following a seven-year conversion that reputedly cost £1 billion, the 144-suite hotel has unveiled its initial eating […]
Birmingham’s popular Taiwanese-inspired restaurant Tiger Bites Pig has opened a branch in Brighton following a successful expansion into larger premises in Brum last year. The new venue is in the home city of co-founder Harry Roper, Brighton-born and and bred, who linked up with his partners in the Imposter Group – Ed Shawcross and Max Williams […]
Restaurant critic and MasterChef judge William Sitwell is to open an Italian restaurant near his home in Somerset after taking over a 17th-century former coaching inn that has recently closed. William announced the plan in an Instagram post this week, in which he appealed for investors to help fund the transformation of the White Hart […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 17th August 2025 London Standard Paulie’s, Shoreditch David Ellis popped in to one of the plethora of New York-style pizzerias that have sprung up around London in recent times – this one from Ryan O’Flynn (“Canadian, shush”), who also owns nearby Detroit […]
Middle Eastern-inspired steakhouse The Black Cow has transferred to new premises on the site of a Shakespearean-era playhouse in Shoreditch, after four years at Hawley Wharf in Camden. The Stage development makes a suitable venue for a restaurant that aims to present its dishes in a theatrical manner, with dry-ageing steaks displayed in wardrobe-sized glass-fronted […]
Chef Victor Garvey has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help finance a new restaurant in Marylebone that he believes will set a new standard for ingredient-led cuisine. He needs supporters to pledge £130,000 by the end of September to pay for the fitting out of the kitchen at Materia Prima, his new restaurant in Great […]
American-based Korean celeb chef Akira Back is no longer headlining the restaurants at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Mayfair, which he joined amid much fanfare at the hotel’s launch in June last year. The hotel’s two restaurants, Akira Back and Dosa, and two bars, ABar Lounge and ABar Rooftop, were quietly rebranded this week without his […]
Congolese chef Joyce Kudia opens her first permanent site this week at Boxhall City food hall near Liverpool Street station, having made her name as a contestant on Channel Four’s ‘Five Star Kitchen: Britain’s Next Great Chef’. Joyce, who has worked as a private chef, was also the first resident chef at Boxhall City’s rotating […]
