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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 […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th October 2026 The Guardian Outlier, Glasgow Grace Dent followed up a tip from a stranger to have brunch at a four-year-old art space with a kitchen whose “carefully orchestrated can’t-be-arsedness is really quite magical [and] intensely likable”. She was […]
Former Kiln head chef Karla Knowles is opening two Thai restaurants in quick succession, starting next week with Pam, by Smithfield Market in Charterhouse Street. Her first standalone restaurant, Pam is pitched as a “playful and creative” take on Thai cuisine, making use of seasonal British produce in a venue that will also host art […]
Beaconsfield boutique hotel Crazy Bear has opened a new British-focused restaurant called Fable from chef Pete Gray, formerly of Heston Blumenthal’s Hind’s Head in Bray. Fable takes the place of BEAR by Carlo Scotto, a radical 14-seater chef’s table concept that survived only five months from its launch last November. The new restaurant signals a […]
An upmarket steakhouse called Lucky Grill opens this week from the Wild Group in Kensington, replacing Greek restaurant Krokodilos that lasted just over a year at the site in Lancer Square, off Church Street. The move follows a similar switch last year by Wild Group when Fantomas in King’s Road, Chelsea, was replaced by the […]
Former Fat Duck chef Nick Rudge this week opened his second restaurant, called The Nest, in the historic town of Conwy on the north Wales coast. It follows The Jackdaw, whose ambitious tasting menu is described in the 2026 Harden’s guide as “Welsh cuisine at its best“. Nick, who was born across the river in […]
A restaurant on a remote Welsh eco retreat is opening an outpost in the heart of the Big Smoke next week. Bert’s has taken over part of the well-known Brackenbury Wine Rooms in Hammersmith, which closed down 18 months ago, and will be an all-day small-plates spot featuring produce from Wales. Founder Ali Paice (pictured) and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18th October 2026 Financial Times Miokuru Handroll Bar, Soho Jay Rayner dropped into one of the half-dozen handroll bars that have opened within a couple of hundred metres of Piccadilly Circus in recent months, where he enjoyed “one of […]
Rules restaurant in Covent Garden has been donated to the National Trust to protect it from the threat of developers – news that was reported this week as far away as the New York Times. Founded by Thomas Rule as an oyster bar in 1798, Rules is widely recognised as the oldest restaurant in Britain – a […]
An ambitious new restaurant called Calluna opened this week at Saltmoore hotel and ‘wellness resort’ near Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast. The restaurant serves a 10-course tasting menu to a maximum of 24 diners each evening, with a focus on hyper-seasonal food from the immediate surroundings and coastline. Dishes from the opening menu include […]
Colourful chef-patron Paul Clerehugh has moved his entire operation to a vacant pub nearby, following a disastrous fire that has closed his well-known music pub The Crooked Billet near Henley on Thames until next autumn at the earliest. The July blaze started in the beer cellar, destroying the kitchen and much of the interior and […]
