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KERB street food returns to King's Cross

Information: 04 February 2013

It's one of the best known daily street food markets in London - and now it's coming back to King's Cross following its winter break (after a few recent guest spots around London too). KERB will be...

Savoy, Wahaca and Feng Sushi win sustainability awards

Information: 04 February 2013

The Sustainable Restaurant Association has just had its second annual awards with a number of London places coming away from today's ceremony with gongs. Wahaca (pictured here) picked up the...

Yalla Yalla opens six-month pop-up in Shoreditch

Information: 04 February 2013

(Updated 4/2/13 with opening details) Having had recent success on the South Bank with their Summer Shack, Yalla Yalla are jumping back into the pop-up business. Their new al-fresco shack is taking...

Portuguese chef Luis Baena to open Notting Hill Kitchen

Information: 01 February 2013

A globetrotting Portuguese chef who has worked with Paul Bocuse, Luis Baena, is coming to London as Head Chef for Notting Hill Kitchen, taking over the site once occupied by Notting Hill Brasserie...

Surrealist Tea with Magritte biscuits at Sotheby's Cafe

Information: 01 February 2013

In the run up to a special Surrealist Art sale at Sotheby’s this coming Tuesday, the auction house's Café will be serving a special Surrealist Tea every day from 3-4.45pm. The tea menu includes...

A second Balthazar bakery planned for Waterloo

Information: 31 January 2013

As if we weren't excited enough by the upcoming opening of Balthazar, we now hear that there will eventually be two Balthazar bakeries in London open to all. The first is the main Boulangerie,...

Russell Norman planning new restaurant on Seven Dials

Information: 31 January 2013

Well it's true to say we are ALWAYS interested in hearing what Russell Norman, the man behind huge hits Polpo and Spuntino, is up to so news this morning that he's just signed a deal on a new...

John Torode partners with McGuigan wines to launch wine matching service

Information: 30 January 2013

Matching food and wine isn't a task people are often confident to undertake; instead many are comfortable leaving this to sommeliers and oenophiles. A new project launched by MasterChef co-host John...

Hispania London Spanish restaurant and store opens on Lombard Street

Information: 29 January 2013

City workers may have been wondering when the hoardings were finally going to come off Hispania London - a massive restaurant and bar project which has been under wraps for a long time on Lombard...

Top 50 Gastropubs for 2013 revealed - Hand & Flowers top, London pubs rule

Information: 29 January 2013

Forget the World's 50 Best, the Top 50 Gastropubs, which has just been announced, offers up a list that many of us might have a little more chance of working our way through. The 2013 awards whihc...

Borough Market's Wheatsheaf pub reopens

Information: 28 January 2013

After a three-year closure, owing to the construction of a new railway track running through London Bridge station, Borough’s iconic Wheatsheaf pub has opened its doors once more. The original, open...

Dine Mile High Club pops up in West London

Information: 28 January 2013

It's about this time - when Christmas is a distant memory and it's AGES until summer, when everyone's thoughts turn to holidays. But the problem with holidays is the travelling bit - particularly if...

Ben Spalding starts a series of weekly dinners

Information: 28 January 2013

Ben Spalding has had his fair share of press lately. Firstly with a largely positive response to his time at John Salt and then for his rather untimely departure. We know he's on the hunt for a...

Britain's first National Waiters Day will put waiters in the spotlight

Information: 25 January 2013

With so much focus on chefs, workers in the waiting industry are not always given the recognition they deserve. In light of this comes the brainchild of Fred Sirieix, General Manager of...

Claude Bosi to launch revamped Malt House in Fulham.

Information: 24 January 2013

24/1/13 - Updated with menu details. He's a man who's made the headlines recently, but now Claude Bosi's back with a new pub that he's pulling together with his brother Cedric. The pair previously...

Angela Hartnett's Lime Wood restaurant in New Forest prepares for opening

Information: 24 January 2013

Could 2013 be the year Londoners are enticed out of town by a rash of new country house openings where the food promises to be really good? While Skye Gyngell works on her restaurant at Heckfield...

Michel Roux Jr launches Cactus Studios cookery school

Information: 24 January 2013

The TV company behind such shows as Saturday Kitchen and The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain are making a bold move into the real world by opening up a cookery school. And they've got some of the...

Spit and Roast invite Street Food traders to The Princess Alice to join a Jamboree

Information: 23 January 2013

They're currently running a popular residency at the Princess Alice on Commercial Road, and now chicken masters Spit and Roast are inviting more street food traders down to join the party. They'll...

Goodman Canary Wharf launch Monday Californian wine deals

Information: 23 January 2013

Canary Wharf workers might want to start booking in lunch or evening meetings at Goodman Canary Wharf on Mondays for the next five weeks as the steakhouse launches a brief series of super deals on...

Fortnums host a pop-up bakery with Hix, Kimber, Hollywood and Mary Berry

Information: 22 January 2013

Baking couldn't be any bigger right now - with the great British bake-off being one of the programmes Hot Dinners was utterly gripped by last year. So it makes sense that Fortnum & Mason are...

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