Whyte & Brown and Richard Falk challenge food waste with ‘The Humble Chicken Supper Club’
Chef Richard Falk will host a sustainable supper club at Soho free-range chicken restaurant Whyte & Brown this week.
Bar of the Week: The Goring Bar
The Goring Bar has relaunched to coincide with the opening of Siren.
Review: duck duck goose pops up at Mortimer House for July residency
duck duck goose is back and better than ever.
Beer of the Week: Runaway Brewery ‘Gari Gose’
A gose beer brewed with kombu, root ginger and preserved wah plums.
Sugoi JPN is quietly revolutionising Latin-Japanese fusion food
Currently operating from an east London food truck, Sugoi JPN specialises in innovative 'NoriTacos'.
Spirit of the Week: Abelha Gold Cachaça
Produced in Brazil, Abelha is one of the world's only organic certified Cachaças.
Restaurant Review: Kutir launches summer seafood menu
Kutir’s Jaltarang (“from the sea”) menu will be available until the end of August.
Beer of the Week: Metallica x Stone Brewing Enter Night Pilsner
Enter Night Pilsner is a collaboration between Metallica and Arrogant Consortia, an imprint of Stone Brewing.
Carousel London continues to impress with summer guest chef residencies
Carousel London plans to host a selection of chefs from around the world for this year’s summer programme of guest residencies.
Bar of the Week: The American Bar at The Stafford
The American Bar at The Stafford London has launched a new menu of 16 cocktails inspired by America's rich history.
Beer of the Week: Camden Town Brewery Strawberry Hells Forever
To celebrate the 2019 release of Strawberry Hells Forever, Camden Town Brewery has collaborated with GrowUp Community Farms to install the UK’s first brewery-based urban vertical farm at their Enfield brew house.
Restaurant Review: Monsieur Le Duck
Monsieur Le Duck champions rustic dishes from south-west France, with a predominant focus on its namesake ingredient.
London’s best new restaurant openings – July 2019
With plenty of exciting launches constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick July's best new London restaurant and bar openings.
Spirit of the Week: Brookie’s Byron Slow Gin
Produced with Davidson plums, native to Australia, Brookie's Byron Slow Gin is a play on English sloe gin.
Restaurant Review: Lucky Cat by Gordon Ramsay
Replacing Maze, Lucky Cat is celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's first London opening since 2014.
Restaurant Review: Mien Tay, Battersea
A family-run group of four London restaurants, Mien Tay specialises in south-western Vietnamese cuisine.
Restaurant Review: BAO Borough
Specialising in gua bao – a popular street food dish in Taiwan - BAO’s first venture south of the river serves often outstanding food that makes dinner well worth queuing for.
Bar of the Week: Zuma London
A symbol of the transient nature of life, the cherry blossom (sakura) season dates back to the eight century. Hanami (literally, “looking at flowers”) parties and picnics take place each year as the cherry blossom front sweeps the length of the country, typically beginning as early as February in Okinawa,...
Beer of the Week: Small Beer Brew Co. Session Pale
According to the Oxford English dictionary, ‘Small Beer’ is “a thing that is considered unimportant.” While many low alcoholic beers have an undesirable reputation – even though they now make up over quarter of UK beer sales, due to increased demand – The Small Beer Co. are striving to change public perception. Close...
How To Make: Burmese fried fish curry
Also known as ngar kyaw chet, this fried fish curry recipe is simple to follow at home, using readily available ingredients, ready to eat in under an hour.
Spirit of the Week: Hernö Gin Distillery Old Tom
When the Gin Act of 1751 was brought into effect, the sale of gin was banned in prisons, workhouses and any shops selling everyday staples. Distillers were also unable to sell gin direct and publicans were no longer able to issue credit. As a result, gin became less readily available...
Mr Fogg’s to host Father’s Day cigar and whisky pairing
In celebration of Father’s Day (Sunday 16th June), Mr Fogg’s Residence in Mayfair will host a special cigar and whisky pairing from 2-4pm. Taking place on the bar’s intimate outdoor Hendrick’s Botanical Garden Terrace, the event will feature tastings of two whisky cocktails, a dram of single malt and a...
Beer of the Week: Salcombe Brewery Pale Ale
Founded in 2016 by John and Gerry Tiner, inspired by 35 years of nearby family holidays, Salcombe Brewery Co. is an eco-friendly, locally supportive brewery operating in South Devon. With investment secured both nationally and internationally by shareholders with a similar taste for high quality beer, the state of the...
Restaurant Review: Bob Bob Cité
“The entire menu is made up of things I’d like to eat at home,” explains Leonid Shutov, discussing the luxury comfort food served at his new restaurant, Bob Bob Cité, during a recent dinner service. Opened 18 months later than planned, the restaurant follows the success of cult favourite Bob...
Restaurant Review: The Drop, Coal Drops Yard
A wine bar with a food menu of note, The Drop joins the Hart Brothers’ portfolio of restaurants at Coal Drops Yard. Near King’s Cross station and Granary Square, the Heatherwick Studio-designed shopping and restaurant district opened last autumn. Originally established in 1850, to handle to eight million tonnes of...
Restaurant Review: Gloria
East London’s restaurant of the moment, Gloria is a contender for the city’s most unapologetically over the top new opening. The first overseas venture from the Big Mamma group, with seven restaurants in France, Gloria occupies the former Red’s True Barbecue site on Great Eastern Street. Having already received rapturous...
Pret a Manger to launch lobster roll in the UK
As part of a new summer menu, Pret A Manger will introduce a new, limited-edition lobster roll to 123 of its UK stores next week.
Beer of the Week – Fourpure Key West Key Lime Pie Sour
With a name inspired by the four core ingredients used to produce beer (grain, yeast, hops and water), Fourpure Brewing Co. launched as a family-run brewery in October 2013. Since then, the brewery has gone from strength to strength, now regarded as one of London’s most exciting craft beer producers,...
London’s Best New Restaurant Openings – June 2019
With plenty of exciting launches constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month. Siren at The Goring – Belgravia The first new restaurant to open at The Goring in over 109 years, Siren will join the Royal Warrant-appointed hotel’s...
Spirit of the Week: CÎROC Summer Watermelon
Flavoured vodka has seen exponential growth in popularity over the past few years. Purists will disprove, but the rise is popularity is perhaps unsurprising given the spirit’s typically neutral character. Launched in 2003, CÎROC has become renowned as a kingpin of the flavoured vodka market, with a profile of numerous...
Restaurant Review: Murger Hanhan
“The world’s oldest sandwich” is not the most appealing of tag-lines. Visions of that episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer falls ill after eating a ten-foot hoagie from the nuclear power plant’s company picnic are instantly conjured: the bread having turned purple and cloaked with fungus after a few...
Beer of the Week: Northern Monk Striding Edge Light IPA
Established in 2013, Northern Monk operates between two sites in Leeds. Focussing on creating the best beer experiences in the world, the independent brewery moved into Holbeck’s Old Flax Store site (a Grade II-listed mill) at the end of 2014: home to the brewery, The Refectory tap room and Chapter...
Restaurant Review: Yopo at The Mandrake Hotel
It wasn’t always like this. Hotel restaurants were once, until quite recently, generally considered a last resort, aimed at guests too tired or unadventurous to explore the local area. During the late 1800s, Auguste Escoffier revolutionised hotel dining when hired by César Ritz, with the pair eventually collaborating on the...
Bar of the Week: Artesian Bar at The Langham
A destination bar within The Langham – Europe’s first ‘Grand Hotel’ – Artesian Bar has launched a new minimalist cocktail menu. Focussing on the mantra ‘less is more’, the list’s 22 new cocktails aim to champion just two flavour combinations. Over the space of eight months, the venue’s award-winning team...
Beer of the Week: Little Creatures Dog Days Session Ale
Established at the turn of the millennium, Little Creatures began life in Fremantle, Australia. Set up by a group of friends, each hailing from the beer scene, the brewery was launched with the aim to brew a hop-driven American Pale Ale with a “distinctive aroma and delicious flavour”. Brewed slowly,...
Restaurant Review: Lucknow 49
Synonymous with the city of Lucknow in North Indian State Uttar Pradesh, Awadhi cuisine arose during the 18th Century rule of the Mughal Empire. Originally inhabitants of Persia, the Nawabs (emperors) of Awadh were used to a certain type of diet - largely composed of grains, dry fruits and vegetables...
How To Make: The Other Naughty Piglet’s chilled rice pudding
Coinciding with The Other Palace’s run of Toast – a stage adaptation of Nigel Slater’s best-selling memoir – the theatre’s resident restaurant, The Other Naughty Piglet, is serving a modern take on Nigel’s mother’s ‘surprisingly good’ rice pudding referenced in the show. Created by Joe Sharratt, Director and Head Chef...
Spirit of the Week: HYKE Gin
Approximately 713 tonnes (1.4 million punnets) of fresh table grapes per year are not suitable for fresh consumption and are thus surplus to requirements of the supply chain. Aiming to combat food waste, however, Foxhole Spirits - specialising in the production of premium spirits from otherwise unused resources – has...
The Gun re-launches with new interiors and a Sunday roast of note
Taken over by the East London Pub Co, The Gun has re-launched with updated interiors and a selection of new food menus. First opened in 1929, named after Henry VIII’s nearby artillery factory, the pub’s new building, on the ground floor of the London Fruit & Wool Exchange has seen...
Beer of the Week: Brick Brewery Citrus Sour
Established in 2013, Brick Brewery operates from a railway arch in Peckham Rye. As well as brewing beers in a range of different styles, with recipes inspired by the brewing team’s travels, each built from scratch, the team also built their own Tapyard with indoor and outdoor seating, plus 20...
Re-invented Galvin HOP Bistrot & Bar launches new menu
Sister to adjoining Michelin-starred Galvin La Chapelle, Galvin HOP Bistrot & Bar has been re-invented for 2019, recently equipped with a meat and cheese counter and a new menu. Modelled on the fashionable bistrot and bars of Paris and New York, the Spitalfields restaurant continues to serve brothers Chris and...
How To Make: vegan brand by CHLOE.’s spring miso soup
Launched in 2015, by CHLOE. aims to offer “delicious, wholesome, vegan foods that fuel and energise without compromising flavour, taste or satisfaction”. Just three years after opening their first fast-casual space in New York City, the brand launched its first international venture in London, taking over a site near Covent...
Beer of the Week: Mikkeller Wood will fall down Berliner Weisse
Launched in 2006, Mikkeller began life as a project from Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, a maths and physics teacher who began experimenting with hops, malt and yeast at home in Copenhagen. Eventually launched with the aim to “brew beer that challenges the concept of good beer and moves people”, by working...
Restaurant Review: Santo Remedio
Initially launched as a supper club, Santo Remedio’s first bricks and mortar site opened in Shoreditch at the beginning of 2016. Although a hit with critics and locals, the restaurant quickly closed its doors just seven months later due to issues with the building. Thanks, in part, to a successful...
Spirit of the Week: Copper Dog Speyside Blended Malt Scotch Whisky
During the early 1900s, ‘copper dogs’ became popular amongst Speyside whisky distillers. Fashioned from a length of copper tube with a penny soldered to one end, these copper dog devices were commonly used to surreptitiously steal a dram of whisky from ageing barrels. Once dipped and filled, the vessels would...