Restaurants

Veganuary and Dry January are a hot topic as we move into 2019, with a recent survey conducted by VoucherCodes revealing news that 12 per cent (one in 10) Brits aim to cut down on alcohol this year, while more than 2.66 million of us will attempt to ditch meat and dairy in 2019. It’s thus fitting that Kym’s, the new restaurant from Michelin-starred chef Andrew Wong, will host a one-off collaboration with Seedlip next week (Wednesday 16th January), to...

Kutir - the first solo project from Rohit Ghai and Abhi Sangwan - has the potential to become London's next go-to dining destination.

“After a few years on the restaurant scene, we decided that we wanted to start up our own ventures, and have the freedom to create our own menus,” says James Lakie, co-founder of StudMuffin, a new addition to Pop Brixton. Since launching in 2015, Pop has (amongst other commendable feats) functioned as a carousel of restaurants and street food vendors, some more compelling than others. Conquering the unit formerly occupied by Duck Duck Goose – one of 2017’s most loveable...

2018 has been an interesting year for London restaurants. The news of prominent closures has perhaps dominated, with the likes of St. JOHN on Maltby Street, Marianne Lumb’s eponymous Notting Hill restaurant, Stevie Parle’s Rotorino, Jason Atherton’s Sosharu and both Madame D and Gul & Sepoy from the team behind Gunpowder having ceased trading. The impending impact of Brexit has also been much discussed in regard to restaurant closures, with many big named restaurateurs having expressed their concerns over uncertainty...

Since the news broke that Din Tai Fung would open in London, the first European restaurant from the world-renowned chain has become one of the most hyped launches of 2018. Established in 1958 by Chinese-born Bingyi Yang and his wife Lai Penmei, Din Tai Fung began life as a cooking oil retailer in Taiwan. As a way of diversifying the business, however, the site in Taipei began to offer xiao long bao (Shanghainese soup dumplings), eventually converting the whole shop...

Oxford Street has become somewhat of a multi-layered destination for locals and tourists of late. Sat atop of its pulsating retail road are several rows of streets that offer some of the best drinking spots central London has to offer. The streets below have become a culinary epicentre for restaurants looking to fuse its busy footfall with the shazam of Mayfair. So it should come as no surprise that the fertile lower belt has seen a number of new openings...

“The restaurant economy is changing and we need to make sure we’re constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers”, Gabriel Gonzalez commented on LIMA’s new menu concept introduced during the spring. Opened by Gonzalez and co-founder Virgilio Martínez (whose original restaurant, Central, in Lima is currently ranked at number six by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants) in Fitzrovia during 2012. At the forefront of the current boom in popularity surrounding Peruvian food in London, LIMA soon became...

At the end of 2012, Andrew Wong took over his parents’ restaurant – having occupied the same site on Wilton Street, near Victoria station, since the 1980s – and re-launched as A. Wong. Having previously worked in the kitchen, the chef had become well-versed in dim sum, a facet of the restaurant’s lunch menu that has since garnered a devoted fan base of food obsessives, eventually earning a Michelin star in 2017. I was late to the party, having enjoyed...

With Christmas fast approaching, the weather getting colder and the days shorter, London is seeing no shortage of festive dining experiences. Most restaurants and pubs will be offering some sort of Christmas menu, but there are venues that go even further. Returning for its sixth year, Jimmy Garcia’s Lodge on the River is one of these venues. Situated outside the Southbank Centre this pop up is a sum of four parts: Snow globe-style igloos offering private dining for up to...