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In Pictures: Hackney Homemade Food Market
Last Saturday’s launch of Hackney Homemade Food Market promises lots more yummy Saturdays to come. Home made quesadillas, pickles and sauerkraut (and that’s just the offering from one vendor ), boozed...
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What’s for Lunch? Old Tom’s Bar, Leadenhall Market
Easy does it and it’s done quite well at Old Tom’s Bar, where grazing menus featuring British cheese and artisanal meat are paired with craft ale and fine wine set a tasty tone for casual lunches and...
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Free Breakfast Gig Alert: The Drums @ Floridita
Brooklyn popsters The Drums perform a free 20 minute acoustic set this Thursday morning at 8.15am at Floridita in Soho. The performance will feature songs from their debut self-titled album as well as...
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Bell & Brisket Salt Beef Bar @ The Queen’s Head, Piccadilly Circus
Salt beef. It’s not just for Brick Lane bagel stuffing anymore. Indeed, beef, beef and more beef (whether pickled, burger-ed or otherwise) seem all the rage these days no matter where you are in town....
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London Food & Drink News: 1 March 2012
Now open at Broadway Market is a retro caff done delicious: Market Cafe. Basically it’s Formica + an old school caff menu but fresher and more gastro-y. That’s a winning concept, especially so close...
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A Northwest Passage to Upscale Comfort Food @ The Hill, Belsize Park
The Hill Bar and Brasserie in Belsize Park — or Steele’s Village as these lower slopes are often known — has recently launched London’s “first true Pacific Northwest food concept” menu. Or so reckons...
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Britain’s Best Steak And Kidney Pie? Here’s The Recipe.
In case you didn’t get enough Great British stodge celebrating National Chip Week a couple of weeks back, it’s now British Pie Week. We’re not sure who comes up with all this week-of-the-whatever...
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What’s for Lunch? Morgan M Barbican
Do people still power lunch? If so, they’d be wise to do it at Morgan M. Located across from Smithfield Market and skirting the rim of the City, Chef Morgan Meunier’s “affordable haute cuisine”...
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London Food & Drink News: 8 March 2012
Dinner and a movie just got easier with the opening of Ambar at the Odeon IMAX Cinema at Swiss Cottage. The new bar with food menu offers cocktails from £5.95 and a range of 25 wines by the glass....
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Pencil Presents… No Breaks Live Music Tonight @ Village Underground
Pencil Presents is a new music project aiming to gather “high calibre acts from across the world to create a visual and audio event where audience and artists experience a night in unison”. That’s...
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Brunch With A Gospel Choir And A Stunning View @ Millbank Tower
Gospel Brunch is a new “brunch experience” combining live gospel music performed by the London Community Gospel Choir, amazing views of London from one of the top floors of Millbank Tower and a menu...
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What’s for Lunch? Pitt Cue Co, Newburgh Street, Soho
The sauce stains on the curtains suggest you might wanna roll up your sleeves if you’re planning to chow down at Pitt Cue Co as a saucy lunch here might not only get a bit messy, it could prove epic...
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Yo! Sushi Soho – 97p per Plate – Today Only
Cheap sushi just got cheaper. If only for one day. To celebrate the opening of the very first Yo! Sushi restaurant on Poland Street way back in 1997, the popular sushi chain will be selling all...
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London Food & Drink News: 15 March 2012
In the future, every London pub will belong to Ed and Tom Martin. Or so it seems when one tries to keep track of how often these fellows launch a new venue for elbow bending. As long as the pubs are...
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New Pub Review: The Hunter S., De Beauvoir Town
If the vibe and offer of this newly opened De Beauvoir Town pub somehow remind you of Victoria Park’s Hemingway pub, then you’re picking up on the fact that the Hunter S. is the creation of...
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Josper Grilling @ Caxton Grill, St Ermin’s Hotel, St James’s
Caxton Grill is one of very few restaurants in London to feature a Josper Grill (the second ever in town according to the folks there), thus providing all sorts of omnivorous excuses to pay an empty...
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What’s For Lunch? Union Jacks, Central St Giles
Jamie goes family friendly and redefines the pizza with his latest restaurant offering. And guess what? It’s pretty good. TV personality, cookbook author, restauranteur, chastiser of hillbillies with...
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London Food & Drink News: 22 March 2012
The Social – music venue, bar and Fitzrovia’s answer to East End hipster-itis – has teamed up with New Cross foodie favourites, The London Particular, to provide a new quality all day food menu....
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London Gallery Hop: 23 March 2012
Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed: Previously discussed as a venue by Louise Bourgeois before her death, the Freud Museum hosts this show featuring original documents from the artist’s...
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What’s for Lunch? Searcys, The Gherkin
Members only fine dining “delivered in elegant, minimalistic surroundings” with a fantastic 360° panorama from 180 metres above London in one of its most iconic buildings: Yeah, lunch (or any excuse...
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New Afternoon Teas Coming to the Intercontinental London Park Lane
Available from April, two new afternoon teas have been added to the menu of the Intercontinental’s Wellington Lounge. As chic and contemporary as the setting in which they are to be served, the...
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Lazy Loaf Sunday Brunch @ Bread Street Kitchen
Sunday brunch works best when it offers a comfortable setting from which to stretch one’s weekend a little bit further and deny ever so briefly that inevitable onslaught of Monday morning blues. If...
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New Restaurant Review: Ceviche, Frith Street
Guess what features prominently on the menu of this couple of months old Peruvian restaurant in Soho? Yep, Peru’s national dish, ceviche. Flip the menu over and it’s an equally Peruvian proud read of...
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What’s for Lunch? Cabana Brasilian Barbecue, Central St Giles
So, a couple of weeks back we reviewed Jamie Oliver’s newish pizzeria…erm we mean flat-eria, Union Jacks, and have since found ourselves sauntering across the Central St Giles piazza to sample what’s...
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1000 Free Burritos @ New Tortilla Wimbledon Tomorrow From Noon
Tortilla – the “UK’s biggest burrito group” – is getting even bigger with a new outlet officially opening tomorrow (4 April) in Wimbledon. As when unwrapping the Hammersmith location, Tortilla is...
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London Food & Drink News: 5 April 2012
Ping Pong dim sum restaurants (they’ve got 11 locations in London at the moment and a few more in Sao Paolo, New York and Dubai) are trying to get the word out about the kitchen craft behind their...
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What’s for Lunch? Eyre Brothers, Leonard Street
Long before Shoreditch got all chock-a-block with spiffy upscale restaurants worth turning London’s foodie focus east, there was Eyre Brothers. This well-established fine dine of a restaurant does up...
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Free Pint of Beer And A Record Breaking Toast @ The Lamb Tavern, Leadenhall...
This St George’s Day, Monday 23 April, Leadenhall Market’s Lamb Tavern will attempt to break the record for the greatest number of people toasting St George in unison. Those wishing to participate...
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London Food & Drink News: 12 April 2012
Mexican food “with integrity” restaurant group, Chipotle, is now offering a “Burritos by Fax” service with a downloadable order form, enabling customers collect orders straight from the cash register...
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What’s for Lunch? The Rib Room, Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Knightsbridge
A Knightsbridge hotel restaurant is definitely of the fancy schmancy variety, but that doesn’t mean a meal at the Rib Room at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower can’t be great value. Lunch is a perfect case...
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Have Lunch With Antonio Carluccio In Notting Hill
Celebrated restauranteur Antonio Carluccio will host a lunch at the Notting Hill Carluccio’s on Wednesday 16 May at 1pm. The event marks the launch of the book he co-wrote with fellow chef Gennaro...
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London Food & Drink News: 19 April 2012
Chipotle Mexican Grill opens a third London restaurant at 181-185 Wardour Street tomorrow, Friday the 20th. To celebrate its tenth birthday, Marylebone’s Caffe Caldesi will spotlight two dishes that...
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Hypnagogia by ROA Opens Today @ Stolenspace
Known for his gigantic animal murals spread across east London and indeed the world, Belgian street artist ROA takes his painting inside for a gallery exhibition. The show, titled Hypnagogia, is on...
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What’s for Lunch? Opera Tavern, Covent Garden
Phenomenal and atypical tapas in an elegant setting from the boys who brought us Salt Yard and Dehesa: oh yes. Unless you’ve made Opera Tavern your de facto dining destination and have somehow become...
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London Food & Drink News: 26 April 2012
This weekend, the London Hop Shoot Festival will celebrate the historic connection between London, brewing and the land. On 27 April, London beer brewers will pick hop shoots in Kent and deliver them...
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“Raw” Indie Wine Fair Comes To The Old Truman Brewery
Raw is a “totally independent” wine fair created and organised by “Crazy French Woman” and Master of Wine, Isabelle Legeron. The two-day fair celebrates natural wines from around the world that, as...
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What’s For Lunch? Pizarro, Bermondsey Street
Chef Patron Jose Pizarro’s eponymous restaurant is a low key and becoming foodie retreat and an ideal setting for quality conversation over exemplary Spanish cuisine and an anything but fussy wine...
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London Food & Drink News: 3 May 2012
There’s a new London based cheesecake maker, the English Cheesecake Company. Londonist tried (via couriered delivery) ECC’s “Notting Thrill” cake. Filled with “a huge slab of chewy chocolate brownie...
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What’s for Lunch? Mint Leaf, Haymarket
Located right off the Haymarket (indeed in the basement of the Haymarket Theatre), Mint Leaf is an upscale and contemporary Indian restaurant with an expansive cocktail bar and lounge. A smart setting...
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What’s for Lunch? Yoobi, Soho
Flavourful, efficient and fairly new, London’s first tamakeria offers a hands-on opportunity to try sushi with a bit of a Brazilian beat. Yoobi serves made-to-order temaki (nori wrapped sushi cones...
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