Celebrities have adored Nobu restaurants for years, and part of their allure has undoubtedly been the strong chance that you’ll see a star of some description, whether from the world of music, the big screen, or the sporting arena — we may like to deny it, but we all love a bit of rubber necking. Read more…
Famed for its wine selection overseen by master sommelier Xavier Rousset, 28-50 Maddox Street also boasts a seasonally changing menu that features some of Mayfair’s premier seafood delicacies. Read more…
Venezuelan owner Elio Machillanda and his wife have opened Tirage with the very laudable aspiration of creating a venue where Champagne is highlighted as a food matching wine, offering fizz options with all of the dishes from the kitchen. Read more…
Sherry is back. In a big way. The era of sherry gathering dust in cupboards and being flourished only at Christmas time has passed: welcome to the bright new dawn of sherry drinking. Read more…
Have you recovered yet from the breathless pace of London restaurant openings in 2013? Stomach toned after Christmas and New Year’s excesses and ready to enter the fray once more? More London restaurant openings in 2014? You betcha. It aint slowing down any time soon… Read more…
Walking through the doors of Stoke Park feels more than a bit special. The imposing frontage has all the gravitas of the finest exclusive country clubs, and having a pre-dinner martini in the bar is to be recommended. Read more…
Cheese and wine, wine and cheese. A match made in heaven? Certainly. Read more…
The London Restaurant Festival is now in full swing, a fantastic celebration of London’s thriving restaurant scene. Read more…
Watching the sun setting while seated on the 33rd floor of The Shard, the latest piece of architectural ingenuity to spear the London skyline, would be reward enough for stepping into this ‘Bladerunner-esque’ building and hitting the button in their lift that has just one destination: floor 33. Read more…
Drake’s is something of a fantasy restaurant for me. The first time I visited a couple of years ago I wanted to move to Ripley, where Drake’s is housed in a former Georgian Clock House. Read more…
HKK is drawing on the Chinese banqueting tradition, offering a simple choice of just one tasting menu at lunch and dinner, a succession of smaller plates. Read more…
When Irving Berlin wrote the lyrics for his song, written and published in 1929, the inspiration came from the phrase ‘putting on the Ritz’, in turn inspired by the original Ritz Hotel in London. Read more…
Wine lists, eh? Confusing, intimidating, sprawling lists of grape juice. As soon as you take your seat in a restaurant, the list is thrust into your hand. Read more…
The music ramps up a notch, the room is buzzing, and the seductive shadowy interior is punctuated with pools of light above each table: welcome to Hakkasan. Read more…
It always make you feel a little special as you’re ushered into the entrance to The Dorchester by top hatted staff, and it puts a little spring in the step. Read more…
DSTRKT is a behemoth of an operation encompassing a restaurant and self styled “decadent and chic” club, the operators including Nick House of Brompton Brands, who already has form with clubs Whisky Mist, Mahiki and the Brompton Club. Read more…
A stalwart of the London restaurant milieu since 1997, Moro have been consistently cooking some of the best food in town since they fired up their wood oven. Read more…
If you’ve whiled away a few hours in any of the tapas bars in Spain from Seville to Madrid, from Valencia to Valladolid, you’ll find plenty of triggers here at Barrica that will spark those treasured memories back to life. Read more…
Chor Bizarre is a playful take (with a little wordplay) on the many ‘Chor Bazaars’ found in every city in India, a ‘Thieves Market’ where all kinds of wares find their way into the bustle of a thriving market, everything from grandfather clocks to colourful bangles, from stereos to car parts. Read more…
When Ibérica Marylebone on Great Portland Street announced that they will be hosting jamón carving masterclasses, we had to trundle along to get the inside track on this deceptively simple looking art of slicing slivers of some of the best ham on the planet; many would argue that it reigns supreme above all other cured hams around the world. Read more…
