Symbolically, September represents not only a seasonal shift but the shuffling in of new trends, new menus and new restaurants. Here’s a selection of the months restaurant news for the times that are a-changing while the season turn turn turns.
Goan for a Goan: Damn Good Curry supperclub
Anita Pati reviews London’s Damn Good Curry supperclub.
Damson & Co opens in Soho
Deli and coffee shop Damson & Co has just opened on Brewer Street, and in just in time for British cheese week, too! Find out more about it here.
McQueen
A kind of theme bar, McQueen in Shoreditch is named after the craggy actor (“Steve’s†wouldn’t have quite the same effect). Style wise, we’re talking tobacco-dyed Chesterfields vying with mirrors and gilt to outdo the 70s chic
What’s On: Cambridge/Norfolk
If you’re dropping off an excited fresher or lucky enough to live in one of England’s most charming counties, we’ve got the inside track on first class food in Cambridge and a super supper club in Norfolk.
The Adamson
Janet Watson enjoys a seaside lunch at The Adamson, the St. Andrews brasserie and bar.
Boozy Books in Soho
Soho bar and restaurant Central & Co. kicks of September with a pop up cocktail series inspired by some of modern literature’s greatest works. Make mine a Hemingway approved Montomgery Martini!
Book Review – Sun Bread and Sticky Toffee: Date Desserts from Everywhere – Sarah Al-Hamad
Once I managed to squash the urge to tear out the endpapers and use the colourful, stamp-laden pages as wrapping paper, I got – ahem –’stuck’ right in to’Sun Bread and Sticky Toffee’. Then promptly got waylaid once again, contemplating the evocative location photography by the author and food shots from the ever-stellar Kate Whitaker.
Brompton Asian Brasserie
Poppy Laking braves late summer sunshine and a speeding Lamborghini to try Arkady Novikov’s newest London venture on one of London’s most famous roads
Urban Rajah rolls out the Great Indian Food Feast series
Being impatient types, we do like a curry in a hurry. And accordingly, we can’t wait till October, when the Great Indian Food Feast series rolls into London town on 3rd October. Fronting the Feast? It’s only that moustachioed maverick, The Urban Rajah.