Jon Hatchman

Jon Hatchman

Jonathan is Food Editor for The London Economic.

Jonathan has run and contributed towards a number of blogs, and has written features for publications such as Eater London, The Guardian, i News, The Independent, GQ, Time Out London and more.

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Restaurant Review – Barbecoa Piccadilly

Regardless of the fact that Jamie Oliver was instrumental in making my generation’s school dinner’s inexplicably bleak, I’ve always respected the chef’s devil-may-care approach to cooking. Still, I’d trade all of the champagne and caviar in the world for just one last turkey Twizzler, no matter how disgusting they really...

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Bar of the Week – Mr Fogg’s Residence

Heavily-themed around the adventures of Phileas J. Fogg - the protagonist of Jules Verne’s ‘Around The World in 80 Days’ - Mr Fogg’s Residence in Mayfair is just one of the Inception Group’s venues based around the character. Mr Fogg’s Tavern near Covent Garden is essentially a pub with a...

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The Best Last Minute Restaurants for Mother’s Day in London

Mothering Sunday is fast approaching, and what better way to treat your Mum than with a chance to get out of the house and celebrate with some great food (and a few glasses of Champagne, perhaps)? We’ve picked a selection of the best restaurants offering truly special, last minute, dining...

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Restaurant Review – Mac & Wild, City

Operating from a site towards the Regent’s Park end of Great Titchfield Street, Mac & Wild’s first bricks and mortar site is possibly the most honest restaurant I’ve ever visited. Stylised as a Scottish restaurant but without any gimmicky tartan check, bagpipes or tam o’ shanter caps, Mac & Wild...

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The Weekly Cocktail Recipe – 7 Tales’ ‘Lucky No. 7’

Just beneath Sosharu restaurant in Clerkenwell, 7 Tales bar is part of Jason Atherton’s Social Company, which offers a constantly changing cocktail menu of drinks created by bartender Robyn Wilkie. Typically simplistic and influenced by Japanese culture, using Japanese ingredients, the bar’s drinks list generally features a selection of 10-12...

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Restaurant Review – Madison

Have you ever been to a high-rise restaurant so bad, so incomprehensibly grim, that you’ve genuinely considered jumping from the top floor, if only to spite them? Madison, owned by D&D London, is a rooftop restaurant and bar on the top of the One New Change shopping centre in the...

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Beer of the Week – Lowlander Poorter

Brewed: Amsterdam, Netherlands Strength: 6% ABV Heavily inspired by the often forgotten history of Dutch brewing, using herbs, spices and fruits brought home by Dutch sailors, Lowlander Beer use botanicals during the brewing process of all of their beers. Named after the literal meaning of The Netherlands (‘Low Lands’), the brewery source...

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The Best Restaurants & Bars for St Patrick’s Day in London

With St Patrick’s Day falling on a Friday (17th March) this year, the weekend will be filled with all manner of fun events taking place across London. Of course, there’s the annual parade, which will take place in Central London on Sunday, plus the city’s fair share of Irish pubs...

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Restaurant Review – The Gilbert Scott

In a similar vein to Marco Pierre White, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey – Marcus Wareing has become a TV chef personality whose equal parts loved and loathed. Over the past three years, the chef has perhaps become best known as the second toughest judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, but...

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