Farringdon

• The best restaurants in Clerkenwell and Farringdon

  

  Here's where to find the best restaurants in Clerkenwell and Farringdon. Between Smithfield and Exmouth markets, there's a lot of promise tucked away in these back streets. 

• Quality Wines' upcoming chef series has designs on your Sundays

  

  We get our fair share of releases about restaurants doing chef takeovers, four-handers and other partnerships. And we get it - they're a great idea to highlight the talent in London's restaurants, as well as giving chefs an opportunity to pool their creative talents. That said, it's now getting hard to make them stand out in a crowded field.

  But there's an exception to every rule, and the upcoming Quality

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• Bouchon Racine

  Henry Harris' French restaurant in Farringdon

• Brutto

  Russell Norman's Florence-inspired Farringdon restaurant. 

• Ceru are bringing their Eastern Med food to Farringdon

  

  Over in Farringdon, what was once a branch of Itsu is getting what we'd definitely consider a glow-up, having been bought by the team behind CERU. They already have two restaurants in West London, in Kensington and Queensway, serving up a Levantine menu.

  We presume that the menu here in East London is going to be the same as their other two restaurants, so expect a menu that roams through Turkey through to the Lebanon and over

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• Cloth restaurant and wine bar to open in Farringdon

  

  What do you get when two wine importers team up with a notable London chef? An oenophile’s dream dining destination is opening near Smithfield Market in Farringdon. Called Cloth, the restaurant and wine bar is opening in a Grade-II-listed building opposite St Bartholomew on an historic row that survived the Great Fire of 1666. It comes to you courtesy of wine importers Joe Haynes and Ben Butterworth, along

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• Quality Chop House puts mince on toast back on the set menu - for two weeks

  

  Quality Chop's mince on dripping toast provoked not so much a storm as a mild weather system when US food site Eater described the dish as a 'quintessential British comfort classic'. Cue a few weeks of social media outrage about whether it was or not, which can only have bolstered the restaurant's bookings.

  Five years on, the dish is now an irregular signature of the Farringdon restaurant, returning to the menu from

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• The Quality Chop House Cafe is coming back - with pies, a club sandwich and that mince on toast

  

  As London foodies know, any news from Quality Chop House is big news. Today they've revealed that they're about to reopen their daytime cafe. The QCH Cafe will serve up a lunchtime-only menu on weekdays in the space that in the evenings houses Quality Wines.

  As co-owner Will Lander explained to Hot Dinners; "the cafe menu is focused on what the French would call 'plats de resistance' which will provide a hearty lunch but

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• Test Driving Bouchon Racine - Henry Harris's triumphant return to the kitchen

  

  Henry Harris has returned to the stoves with his revival of Racine as a bouchon in Farringdon. We went to see if the magic was still there. 

• The Bleeding Heart wine bar reopens its doors in Farringdon

  

  In the same month we lost one of London's oldest restaurants (fingers crossed that's only temporary) it's good to hear that another of London's eighteenth century hostelries is being resurrected.

  The Bleeding Heart Wine Bar's doors have been closed since the pandemic. And faint hearts

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• Henry Harris is back with Bouchon Racine and the Three Compasses in Farringdon

  

  Updated 2/11/22 with pub opening date

  It's been seven long years since chef Henry Harris closed the doors of his much-loved restaurant Racine in Knightsbridge. But now we can bring you the great news that Racine is coming back, albeit in a slightly different guise. Harris has joined forces with hugely respected restaurant director Dave Strauss (who you might remember from his decade at Goodman

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• Test Driving Trattoria Brutto - Russell Norman's ode to Florence is a winner

  

  Russell Norman, the man who brought us Polpo, is back with a brand new place in Farringdon that's influenced by the restaurants of Florence. We went down for an early look.  

• Farringdon's House of Ice Cream pop-up is serving ice cream with fried chicken and chips

  

  At this time of the year, ice-cream pop-ups are ten a penny in London, but we have to say The House of Ice Cream that opens today in Farringdon has got our attention. The two week pop-up by Fuller's Kitchen, next to The Conductor pub, has been timed to launch ahead of National Ice-cream Day and will be serving up ice cream with a side of chips, chicken and hot sauce.

  Choose from two mains - ice cream and fries or with fried chicken, desserts consist of

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• Test Driving Quality Chop House - 150 years old and still going strong in Farringdon

  

  Hearing the Quality Chop House was celebrating its 150th birthday with a special anniversary menu, it seemed a good time to head back to Farringdon to rekindle one of our longest running restaurant affairs in London.

• Quality Chop House celebrates its 150th birthday with a greatest hits menu

  

  Who doesn't love a good birthday celebration? Well, the one planned by The Quality Chop House for thier 150th anniversary sounds like it's going to be worth turning up for.

  To commemorate serving food to Londoners since 1869, the Farringdon Road restaurant is putting on a special menu of QCH classics "reinterpreted by head chef Shaun Searley".

  Dishes will include (brace yourselves):

  • Beef fat brioche with duck liver parfait and black
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