News & reviews

Pizza Pilgrims throw open the doors to their new Pizzeria

Information: 31 July 2013

Last night ourselves and a bunch of foodies, bloggers, chefs and restaurateurs crowded a Soho pavement for the launch of the much-anticipated Pizza Pilgrims restaurant in Soho. The new restaurant...

Italian in Pimlico - we check in on Tinello

Information: 30 July 2013

We go to Pimlico to chek out family-run Italian restaurant Tinello.

Food Pit - talking to the guys behind Twitter's pop-up parody

Information: 30 July 2013

Multi-Coloured Slop Shop, Ealing. Keith Chegwin hunches with a ladle and several buckets of garishly unidentifiable "food product". Anarchic. If all that sounds familiar, then you're a follower of...

Ruski's Caviar and Vodka Tavern brings caviar club sandwiches and more to Kensington

Information: 29 July 2013

We've had Burger and Lobster, chicken and steak (Tramshed), chicken and egg (Whyte and Brown) and many more combinations. But this latest Russian inspired bar cuts right to the chase offering the...

Burger face-off - we check out the burgers at London Burger Bash

Information: 29 July 2013

Update - Bleecker St Burger (that's them in the photo) were crowned the winners! The London burger craze may have just added some American newcomers to the scene, but the city's doing very well on...

Absinthe lassis and house Indian ale planned for Gymkhana's punch house bar

Information: 26 July 2013

Trishna chef Karam Sethi is opening a second restaurant Gymkhana in Mayfair this summer and it sounds as if as much energy is being spent on the basement bar as the restaurant itself. The lower...

London's first winery London Cru to open in Earls Court

Information: 25 July 2013

London already has plenty of breweries as well as gin and vodka distilleries, so it was really only a matter of time before it got its own winery. Now London Cru is planning to open in November in...

New York's Fatty Crab to open in London

Information: 25 July 2013

News of yet another big US opening hit the Twittersphere this week when it was revealed that Fatty Crab - the Malaysian inspired seafood joint from the folks behind Fatty Cue - was planning to open...

Bo Lang dim sum restaurant and tea house to open on Draycott Avenue

Information: 24 July 2013

If there's one recurring theme in London restaurant openings this Autumn, it's that lots of their cuisine looks to the East for influence. And the latest to be announced is a Chinese dim sum...

Spicy popcorn and glow-in-the-dark hot dogs at the launch of the British Airways Silent Picturehouse

Information: 24 July 2013

Hot Dinners likes to ease gently into the start of the working week, and so chose to escape the muggy weather on Monday night with cocktails and a movie at the red carpet launch of the British...

Bush Hall Dining Rooms – bringing British food to the heart of Shepherd’s Bush

Information: 23 July 2013

We head west to Shepherd's Bush to check out strong cocktails and cracking food at this ‘true neighbourhood restaurant’.

Mark Sargeant returns to London - we check out the revamped Plum & Spilt Milk

Information: 23 July 2013

Mark Sargeant returns to London to take on the menu for Plum and Spilt Milk at King's Cross. We pop down to try it out.

Trying the pop up crustacea bar at The Churchill Bar

Information: 20 July 2013

Just a few minutes walk from the madness of Oxford Street is the Hyatt Churchill which you may or may not know also happens to be the location for one of London's top Italian restaurants Locanda...

Open East Festival at the Olympic Park features a big foodie line-up

Information: 19 July 2013

It's been a whole year since Danny Boyle showed us that the Olympics might actually be great after all, with the opening ceremony getting things off to a fantastic start. Now, to mark this...

Phileas Hog take over kitchens at Abbey Tavern in Kentish Town

Information: 19 July 2013

Pulled pork specialists Phileas Hog are going to be taking over the food at Kentish Town's Abbey Tavern from 26 July. The trio were previously based at local butchers Harry’s Fine Foods and also had...

Hawksmoor duo to open Foxlow on St John Street

Information: 18 July 2013

Updated 25/9/13 with soft launch info, opening date and more about the food Some exciting news - an email hit our in-box this morning to say that Will Beckett and Huw Gott from Hawksmoor have signed a...

Meantime Brewery launches 3 day BrewFest in Greenwich

Information: 18 July 2013

Craft beer in the UK has come a very long way in the past few years. It's a movement that's already swept through the US but we've really seen steady improvements in London's pubs recently. Now...

Dishoom puts on takaway Nihari for Ramadan

Information: 17 July 2013

With the sweltering weather we've been having, we're slightly in awe of anyone who's been fasting for Ramadan. Actually we're pretty amazed at anyone having the willpower to stay off food and drink...

London's top restaurant designer David Collins dies

Information: 17 July 2013

The designer David Collins died last night. The man, responsible for some of London's most iconic (and beautiful) restaurants passed away after suffering from skin cancer. The news will come as a...