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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 […]
A Mediterranean-inspired restaurant enticing long-lunchers launched this week close to Marble Arch in Marylebone – Mour, an offshoot from the Leonard Hotel next door. Set inside a smartly remodelled Georgian townhouse with its own entrance on Seymour Street, the 60-seater restaurant includes a sun-lit courtyard open all year round thanks to its retractable roof – providing a […]
Farmer-chef Will Devlin of The Small Holding in Kent this week opened his first London outpost, Birchwood at the Conduit members’ club in Covent Garden. The venture is starting out as an all-day cafe and wine bar with a roof-top restaurant follow in the autumn – all of them open to the general public. The […]
Dean and Anna Parker have reopened their highly rated Italian restaurant Celentano’s in Glasgow’s Arthouse Hotel, six months after losing their previous premises in the city’s Cathedral Square. Celentano’s has won consistent praise in the Harden’s guide in recent years for “getting it just right” with an Italian menu that puts an original twist of […]
Adam Byatt of Trinity in Clapham is to open an Italian neighbourhood restaurant overlooking Wandsworth Common, called Rosina after his daughter Rosie. Rosina has taken over the corner site formerly occupied by Brinkley’s Kitchen – just a few doors along Bellevue Parade from Chez Bruce, which has for many years jousted with Trinity for the title […]
Restaurant Orme in southwest Manchester is relaunching next week with a new pared-down approach, doubling back on its founders’ decision earlier this year to sell up and move on. Chef Jack Fields and his partner Rachel Roberts (pictured) have revamped the interior of the Urmston restaurant to reflect a more relaxed and social approach to […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 21st June 2026 The Guardian The Golden Tooth, Newington Green Grace Dent welcomed the new venue from Matthew Scott – “one of the most interesting cooks around right now” – and wine merchant Charlie Carr, the duo behind Papi in London Fields […]
The latest phase of the six-year, £1.4billion revamp of Olympia in west London opened for business this week – Canopy, a rooftop dining and drinking space between the two main halls, incorporating four different venues. Canopy is named after its 22-metre-high vaulted glass roof made from 520 separate panels, and has direct access via stairs and […]
The ground-floor restaurant at Soho House founder Nick Jones’s new-build luxury hotel St Clement opened formally this week, overlooking the Thames at Temple. Café Clement offers an all-day Franco-Italian menu, from a kitchen run by ex-River Cafe chef Danny Bohan. It has a riverside terrace as well as garden seating. Ahead of its opening to […]
Asma Khan’s Darjeeling Express is moving to much larger new premises in Soho next week – the fourth permanent address for an all-female venture that started out as a supperclub. After three years in Kingly Court, it has taken over the former Hovarda site in Rupert Street, which will allow it to accommodate 130 guests on […]
