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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 […]
Malaysian-Chinese comedian Nigel Ng – better known as Uncle Roger – is to launch his first London restaurant over the Easter weekend: Kawan by Uncle Roger, in Chinatown. He has joined forces with restaurateur Keng Yew (of YiQi and The Eight) and former Hakkasan chef Daren Liew for Kawan (meaning ‘mate’ or ‘friend’ in Malay), which opens […]
The dust had barely settled following the closure of well regarded Papi in London Fields when a new restaurant called Auguste opened in the premises this week – and the Papi team revealed their plan to launch a ‘public house dining room’ called The Golden Tooth near Newington Green later this month. Auguste takes its name […]
Gordon Ramsay launches his TV-tie-in restaurant brand Hell’s Kitchen in London this week, closely followed by a high-rise City branch of Bread Street Kitchen which will be the 100th restaurant in his global empire. Originally a tough area of New York, Hell’s Kitchen lent its name to the chef’s reality TV cooking show first aired […]
Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone has relaunched one of his Six by Nico venues in Manchester as Lennox, which he describes as his “most personal restaurant project to date“. The prolific Glasgow-based chef/restaurateur has established himself on the national stage with 15 Six by Nico restaurants opening in the past decade, offering ‘affordable fine dining’ in […]
MEATliquor and Patty & Bun – two of the country’s most prominent ‘dirty burger’ groups – have both shrunk dramatically following multiple closures this week after 15 years of trading. MEATliquor shuttered branches in Islington, Clapham Junction, Queensway and in Brighton, as well as its pub the Dartford Arms in Forest Hill. Having pulled out of Leeds […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 29th March 2026 Financial Times Aces Foodcraft, Fitzrovia Jay Rayner hailed “one of the most impressive openings in a long while” at this East/West hybrid from Romanian-born chef Alex Craciun, last seen in London 10 years ago as head […]
Pillar Hall, the vast new three-part restaurant and entertainment complex from Des Gunewardena’s D3 Collective, opens next week as the six-year, £1.4 billion revamp of West London’s Olympia nears completion. The centrepiece is Idalia, a 300-seater all-day modern British restaurant inspired by country house style, led by executive chef Samantha Williams and pastry chef Lorena […]
A new family-run venue is opening in Padstow – but this time it is not from the Rick Stein clan of Seafood Restaurant fame, but from locally-born chef Thomas Hine, who launches his first cafe and restaurant today, PL28 Cafe. PL28, on Broad Street, will operate as a daytime cafe serving breakfast and lunch before switching […]
To Simpson’s on the Strand – newly resurrected and with owner Jeremy King in attendance – for the launch of the self-published memoir of Neville Abraham: erstwhile owner of many famous restaurant names from the 1980s and ’90s such as Café des Amis du Vin, Chez Gerard, Cafe Fish and Bertorelli’s. For anyone who is […]
The Victorian-era Chester Grosvenor, one of northern England’s grandest hotels, is to close indefinitely this autumn following the discovery of defective concrete in the building. The closure, from September 30, will see the loss of its two restaurants: the very traditional and highly rated Arkle, run for by many years by chef Simon Radley and […]
