Food and Drink

With the bao trend showing no signs of slowing down, and with a new Mr Bao branch having opened in Tooting just last month, I can already hear you groaning; just reading the title. Fear not, however, as Bun House is a little different. Nestled behind the Palace Theatre on Soho’s Greek Street, the buns served are the fluffy, closed, Cantonese variety. The upstairs is less of a restaurant, more a small room with a takeaway counter and huge steaming...

With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month.   Yard Sale Pizza – Leytonstone Following the success of their three restaurants in Clapton, Finsbury Park and Walthamstow, Yard Sale Pizza will open in Leytonstone this month. Taking over a spot on Leytonstone High Road, the new space has been designed by regular Yard Sale collaborators, Fettle, set to serve Yard Sale’s award-winning pizzas. Handmade...

If London boroughs carried slogans in the same way US states do then "style over substance" would surely be the motto emblazoned across Mayfair's chic streets. You would see it scrawled on the bumper plates of the Lamborghinis that rev at full throttle between traffic lights on the congested streets, or embroidered on the red carpets that cushion the stairs outside its hotels. The bars, that puff a scented mist into your face on arrival and offer cocktails decorated like...

Launched at the just under a year ago, The Ned heralded the introduction of Soho House’s first suit-friendly venue. Housed within London’s former Midland Bank – a Grade-I listed building designed by Sir Edwin ‘Ned’ Lutyens in 1924 – The Ned is a 252-room hotel and members’ club in the heart of the Square Mile; fusing Shoreditch cool with Mayfair stateliness. With eight restaurants, an Instagram-friendly lap pool on the roof and a private, members only vault room, The Ned’s...

Set up last year, Pan is a wild food supper club created by expert game chef Dougy Robertson, having previously worked as Head Chef at Sussex-based foraging focussed cookery school Hunter Gather Cook. Named after the Greek god of the wild and nature, Pan has a profound focus on seasonal food, celebrating the wild food and cooking techniques from the British Isles. Bringing a taste of spring to London’s riverside next month, Pan will host a series of supper clubs,...

Celebrated since the 12th Century, St. David’s Day (or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) commemorates Saint David, the Patron Saint of Wales. Falling on 1st March, the day is typically celebrated by wearing daffodils and leeks, and by eating traditional Welsh food. On the day, various parades also take place through Welsh cities such as Cardiff, Swansea and Aberystwyth. Based in the Snowdonia mountains, Keith Squires is an author and leading chef – currently working at the Dru Yoga Centre. Filled with...

I’ve never felt cool enough for Shoreditch. Even when I used to wear questionably tight jeans, spent all of my money on vinyl records and devoted some of my late teenage years to writing about emerging Indie bands for the NME, I never quite managed to fit in. In 2018 though, now that much of Shoreditch has gone from up-and-coming to up-and-gone - with everyone having migrated to further reaches of Hackney or Peckham - I imagined things may have...

The Smoking Goat in Shoreditch has been crowned champion at the eighth Scotch Egg Challenge at The Canonbury in Islington. In a fiercely contested competition between 23 chefs, Robert Juer and Meedu Saad came out on top for their Thai spiced fermented crab with Tamworth pork egg. The illustrious panel of judges placed Trevor Hunt of the Drapers Arms, last year’s winning venue, in second place with his ‘Hamey’ egg made with ham hock. Third place split the judges and...

Brandy is making a triumphant comeback, and it’s about time. Released at the end of last year, research into festive online searches, from the University of Warwick, suggested brandy is the UK’s favourite Christmas spirit, beating gin, rum, vodka and whisky. Though Christmas is well and truly over, brandy still seems the perfect spirit for supping and enjoying through long, cold winter evenings. The latest expression from the world’s oldest Cognac house, Martell VS Single Distillery is crafted with passion...