News & reviews

There are all manner of restaurants opening up in London we're pretty excited about, but there's something special about the ones coming in the Shard. Maybe it's because eating there will be a way...

It won over our hearts (and completely furred up our arteries) when we ate there just before Christmas, now the newly-reopened Electric Diner has designs on your breakfast. They're introducing a...

We head down to the Longroom at Smithfield to try their salt beef and tosated cheese sandwiches while washing it all down with craft beer.

TV chef Gizzi Erskine's last time in the kitchen with Disco Bistro's Carl Clarke was at her Korean pop-up K-Town. That was a big hit, and they'll soon teaming up again at Clarke's Disco Bistro at St...

News reaches us this week of an interesting place opening in Victoria - one of the few areas of the city almost entirely bereft of decent restaurants. Well new Italian spot Tozi hopes to change all...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you're looking forward to breaking your January detox - we can heartily recommend Opium Chinatown as a good place to start. We visited it on a Thursday night in January (no detox for us) and...

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...

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 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...

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...