Over in Belgravia, chef and restaurateur Tom Aikens had just started to see amazing reviews come in for his new restaurant Muse, just before lockdown hit. You can read our Test Drive here.
The restaurant is almost entirely counter dining, making it pretty hard to accommodate the new socially distant rules, so it
...Looking west, we take in the very best restaurants and more that are delivering to Chelsea, Kensington and Belgravia.
Tom Aikens pares things back for his latest restaurant, with the main emphasis on a counter dining experience. We head along for a look.
There are definitely some pictures that don't need more than a handful of words to go with them and this is one of them. All you need to know is that this braised ox cheek pithivier is going to be on the menu at Marcus from this Sunday.
Created by the restaurant's sous chef Craig Johnston, 2017 winner of Masterchef Professionals, the dish for two comes with pomme puree and Madiera truffle sauce.
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...Two Columbian sisters are hoping to serve up a top cup of coffee to Belgravia residents
Chef Tom Aikens has been out of the fine dining game for a while, but his new Belgravia restaurant seems him return to that with a tasting menu inspired by his life so far.
The Chucs Restaurant & Cafe collection, specialising in modern European cuisine, will open a fifth site in Belgravia (its largest), which will also be its flagship store.
If you manage to secure tickets to this year's Pie Night at Dominique Ansel Bakery, then you'll feel pretty damned smug. This year, Ansel is changing things up for his all-you-can-eat pie fest, bringing in some of London's top chefs to help out.
In the mix are The Ledbury's Brett Graham, Sabor's Nieves Barragán, Ottolenghi's Helen Goh, The Greenhouse's Alex Dilling, and royal wedding baker Violet Cakes's Claire Ptak. In
...Siren is The Goring's first new restaurant in 100 years. We head down to see what Nathan Outlaw's done with the place.
Run by a Kiwi chef whose Sydney cafe championed the Flat White, this new all-day Belgravia space will serve up everything from interesting brunches to epic hot sandwiches and, of course, top-notch coffee.
If you're looking for a fun way to bump up your five a day intake, may we suggest a trip to the Dominique Ansel Bakery this weekend? For three days only they're holding a Summer Marché.
The idea is to celebrate the best seasonal fruits from around the world. So they're filling their pastry section with 10 rather lovely sounding fruit tarts. They're using blueberries from Hertfordshire, British Jubilee Strawberries grown exclusively at only
...Last year, their What-A-Melon Soft Serve practically broke Instagram, so the Dominique Ansel Bakery London are hoping for similar success with their 2019 flavour.
Launching on Friday the Rhubarb & Custard Soft Serve not only looks beautiful but sounds like it would taste pretty great too. It's a combo of rhubarb sorbet and custard soft serve in a hand-rolled ginger honey tuile waffle cone and topped with a crunchy rhubarb
...Who ate all the pies? You if you manage to get tickets to Dominique Ansel Bakery London's Pie Night. The hook - unlimited slices of pie.
As New Yorkers would tell you, this is one of those events you'll need to put an alert in your calendar for. Ansel has been running it there for the past four years and apparently in NYC tickets sell out in two minutes.
For £42 you can eat as many slices of the ten different pies on offer as you can manage in
...So close to Buckingham Palace it's a home from home for the Queen, this traditional London hotel may be a classic but its bar and restaurant are still as good as ever.
Belgravia gets a cracking new neighbourhood restaurant with a lovely terrace to boot