Get 50% off at the new Tapas Revolution
The third tapas joint from Madrid-born chef Omar Allibhoy (his first not to be housed within a shopping centre) will open on 24 February in Shoreditch. Tapas Revolution will have a soft launch period...
View ArticleSt James’s stalwart Franco’s gets a makeover
Handily located St James’s Italian, Franco’s, has reopened after a major refurb. The “efficient” Jermyn Street cafe, which first opened in 1946, has acquired new rich interiors designed by Philip...
View ArticleThe Anglesea Arms launches a new bar snack menu
Last year, much-loved neighbourhood pub The Anglesea Arms reopened – to the great relief of Brackenbury Village regulars. Now the Hammersmith gastroboozer has launched an all-new bar menu, putting its...
View ArticleWin dinner for four and a bottle of wine at Kishmish
With the Holi festival coming up on 6 March we thought we’d bring our readers the chance to win dinner for four with wine at one of London’s most colourful Indian restaurants. Holi is an ancient Hindu...
View ArticleSager + Wilde team up with Typing Room for one off wine dinner
Two of east London’s most exciting dining and drinking destinations have joined forces – it’s a foodie’s dream come true! On Wednesday 18 March, Sager + Wilde and the Typing Room at Bethnal Green Town...
View ArticleExclusive offer: 3 courses and wine for £29 at L’Etranger
Throughout March and April L’Etranger, a “spectacular” French/Asian venture in the heart of London’s museum district, will offer an exclusive deal for diners who book through Harden’s booking grid....
View ArticleTory lobbyist Lionel Zetter ‘shepherds’ comeback of Westminster institution
Westminster institution, Shepherd’s, a favourite haunt of politicos, lobbyists and journalists has returned to London’s dining scene after two years. When the restaurant closed in 2013 it was dubbed...
View ArticleSt John alumni to relaunch Hackney’s The Marksman pub
Tom Harris and Jon Rotheram – alumni of such noble institutions as St John hotel, Nobu and Fifteen – will relaunch The Marksman pub in Hackney on 1 June. The pub on Hackney Road will retain many of the...
View ArticleBT Tower restaurant to reopen for one-off 50th anniversary celebration
It’s lain dormant since 1980 (amid fears it may become a target for the IRA) but now the revovling restaurant at the top of London’s BT Tower is back. Albeit only for two weeks in July and August. The...
View ArticleMartin Williams announces a second M Restaurant site
Former Gaucho head honcho Martin Williams has secured another premises for his solo venture, M Restaurants. The venue, with restaurant, members’ club and wine store, will open in Victoria’s Zig Zag...
View ArticleBen Murphy to quit the Woodford after less than a year
Highly rated young chef Ben Murphy is leaving the Woodford in South Woodford, less than a year after it opened as his first restaurant. Murphy, 25, a protégé of the great Pierre Koffmann and with a CV...
View ArticleLe Gavroche pays out to short-changed chefs
Chefs past and present at Le Gavroche are receiving a Christmas bonus this year following Michel Roux Jr’s announcement that he will make up the shortfall owed to underpaid staff members. The payments,...
View ArticlePickett picked for Southwark Swan
Allan Pickett, whose well-regarded Fitzrovia restaurant Piquet closed last year after just 12 months in business, has been hired as executive chef by the Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre overlooking...
View ArticleHarden’s review of the reviews
Jay Rayner in The Observer reviewed Salt, a small but perfectly formed restaurant serving flavourful food with incredible attention to detail in Stratford upon Avon… “Paul Foster is living other chefs’...
View ArticleMortimer House Kitchen to open at Fitzrovia members club
A new all-day restaurant Mortimer House Kitchen is set to open on the ground floor of soon-to-launch private workspace and wellbeing destination Mortimer House in Fitzrovia. The menu from ex-Cecconi’s...
View ArticleHarden’s review of the reviews
We already know that The Sunday Times’s Marina O’Loughlin isn’t the biggest fan of the great British pub (read her Eater article here). So what will she make of the food at Spoons’ newest outpost in...
View ArticleHarden’s review of the reviews
Jay Rayner in The Observer reviewed Fishers in the City, Edinburgh “Fishers in the City could be a truly terrific fish restaurant, if it weren’t for the small things that aren’t terrific. All the...
View ArticleHarden’s review of the reviews
Fay Maschler in the Evening Standard, heads to another of London’s many ‘baby roll-outs’ as she samples the second Smoking Goat… “’Nu-Thai’ is what the cool kids call it, I am told, food from white...
View ArticleHarden’s review of the reviews
Jay Rayner in The Observer reviews The Kitchen, Inverness (after a bad meal at Boath House, Nairn)… BOATH HOUSE: “I’ve had more fun at the chiropodist, getting my corns removed. I left the Boath House...
View ArticleHarden’s review of the reviews
Giles Coren in the Times revisits Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (the original on Royal Hospital Road) and finds the three Michelin star level service to be just a bit much… “Smartly redone a couple of years...
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