L'Etranger restaurant in Kensington is to expand next door with a new lounge bar and dining room, called Meursault.
The new place, which takes its name from a Burgundy wine (and also the lead character in Camus's L'Etranger), will be split into two with a lounge bar that will offer molecular cocktails Read more
'Tis the season for parties, and we loved the idea behind the one last night to publicise the imminent release of Christmas at Downton on DVD. The PR folks got Hus Vedat, Executive Chef at Westminster's St Ermin's Hotel to come up with a range of Downton-inspired canapes.
To add to our growing list of Christmas markets around London with a decided food bent, we've just heard about Circus 11 which launched yesterday in Shoreditch and will run until 18 December. It's ostensibly a fashion market, held at the Tram Shed, but in addition to a lot of lovely clothes there are Read more
There’s stealth openings and then there’s uber-stealth openings. This week a massive new development opens just off Piccadilly with almost no advance word. Dstrkt is a £25 million restaurant, bar and club space which – despite having a name that reminds us of The Onion story about Clinton deploying vowels Read more
Oh now this is interesting. The Secret Cinema has been around for a while in London, popping up in different venues, with the film (and venue) you're about to see only being revealed on the night. But now they're throwing food into the equation with the launch of Secret Restaurant.
It's the latest in Russell Norman's slowly burgeoning Soho/Covent Garden empire, following in the footsteps of Polpo, Polpetto, Da Polpo and Spuntino. While it retains many of the features of its predecessors (counter dining, sharing plates, and a bare-brick Lower Read more
This weekend looks to be the perfect one for street food lovers. Not only is Friday the last day of Dalston's insanely successful The Long Table, but over in Kings Cross Eat St are planning a rather festive weekend of it.
For KXmas, each of their traders is going to be putting on a Christmas menu, Read more
Rumours of a new Mark Hix restaurant have been in the mix for a while (and been on our Coming Soon page for a couple of months) but today official word has come down today about the launch of Hix Belgravia.
Opening on February 1 2012 in the Thompson Belgraves Hotel, Read more
Our latest round up of restaurant critics - with new reviews for The Delaunay, Chakra, Copita, Young Turks, Riding House Cafe, Granger & Co, Duck Soup, Union Jacks, Aurelia, Soif, Mishkin's, 10 Cases and more...