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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 13th September 2026 Financial Times Igni, Mayfair Jay Rayner savoured a meal of “only highlights” from ex-Cycene chef Theo Clench, who has taken over the live-fire kitchen of what used to be called Humo. The experience is best enjoyed […]
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen next week opens a Mediterranean-style all-day restaurant with a large terrace inspired by ‘Milanese piazzas and Riviera promenades’ that overlooks a landscaped garden, just a couple of minutes’ walk from the hustle of Oxford Street. Pearl, in Mayfair’s Brown Hart Gardens, close to Selfridges, is a standalone venue adjacent to and part […]
Chef and food writer Romy Gill marks her return to frontline hospitality – and her London debut – with the launch next week of Romy Gill at the Pem, where she will present a menu of regional Indian cooking. She ran Romy’s Kitchen in Thornbury, near Bristol in south Gloucester, from 2013-19, and was awarded […]
An ambitious supper-club chef has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £75,000 towards opening a permanent restaurant after cooking 18-course dinners in his parents’ north London kitchen for the past two years. Max Posener trained under Gareth Ward at Ynyshir – his original inspiration to become a chef – and at Cycene in London before launching […]
Chef Tom Sellers is to open five new eating and drinking sites at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, purported to be Britain’s oldest country club and now owned by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in Asia. The luxury venue near Slough – but more importantly for its clientele within easy reach of both Heathrow […]
A new neighbourhood independent restaurant called Vera opened in Glasgow’s Southside this week, serving Mediterranean-influenced modern cooking from chef Zak Young, who has worked in two of the city’s most celebrated kitchens, Cail Bruich and Unalome. Vera, from the Latin for ‘true’, is on Nithsdale Road near Strathbungo, and pitches itself as “a relaxed place […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 6th September 2026 The Guardian Kintsu, Colchester Grace Dent sang the praises of “a small regional indie doing its very best in rather weird times”: chef Paul Wendholt’s ambitious set menu outfit (eight courses plus extras for £90) closed […]
Tom Kerridge has reshuffled his central London offer at the grand Corinthia Hotel in Northumberland Avenue off Trafalgar Square, with the opening tomorrow of a new bar called Georgie’s. It is named after the chef’s beloved boxer dog, whose paw print was preserved in cement during building at his Marlow flagship the Hand and Flowers […]
Chef Elliott Kaye will next week launch Marrion’s Bar in Hackney, his follow-up to Norman’s Cafe in Archway, which he ran for five years with Richie Hayes until it closed last summer. The new venue on Morning Lane is Elliott’s first solo project, and he says: “I wanted Marrion’s to be somewhere I’d actually want […]
A new pub opens two minutes’ walk from Bank station in the City next week offering £6 pints of Guinness and lobsters fresh from the display tank. The Albatross has taken an ex-Brown’s – originally the Commonwealth Bank of Australia – on Old Jewry, and is the first pub from Wild Group founders George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya […]
