The dining equivalent of train spotters will be charging their digital cameras and powering up their Tweetdecks with the news that Heinz Beck is to open a new restaurant in the Lanesborough on Hyde Park Corner in September.
Back to the Sixties with Rolling Stones, John Lennon and Golden Harvest!
Golden Harvest will have a special menu “Back to the Sixties” from 27th of August until the end of September. Every Monday and Tuesday diners will be able to enjoy lunch and dinner from the menu which comprises of a choice of 40 dishes, all at just £2.50 per dish. Normally the same dishes at the restaurant costs upwards of £10.
Papillon Chelsea welcomes new head chef and brasserie menu
Chelsea restaurant Papillon re-launches this month with a new head chef, Tom Hempstead, and a new brasserie-style menu.
Steam Restaurant
There are a couple of things everyone should have local to them, a good curry house and a relaxed bar/restaurant. Until recently Wandsworth residents had The Chutney to satisfy the former, but since the demise of Dittos Bar & Restaurant nothing has come along to replace the latter. Now there’s Steam to give Wandsworth some puff.
Why smuggle food when you can Unearth it?
I once got searched at Madrid airport for guns, drugs, bombs, and knives etc, all the normal things that a middle-aged, clean shaven respectably dressed, Western European man is suspected of carrying, and the coppers lifted out of my onboard bag a 2kg bowling ball of cheese. ‘Oh dear, I’m in trouble now,’ I thought, but they simply put it to one side while they cheerfully stuck needles through my toothpaste tube. I felt like pointing out that a 2kg cheese would be a far better hiding place for a bomb or gun, but thought better of it.
Flex your Grey Matter at The Cadogan Arms
The new quiz nights at Tom & Ed Martin’s recently opened Cadogan Arms on the King’s Road have become the hot spot for trivia champions and Chelsea’s aspiring intelligentsia. Taking place every Monday evening, this is your chance to have some competitive fun, test your general knowledge and win a £100 bar tab in the process.
Massis restaurant
A short canal-side walk past the bustling bars and eateries left our abstention seeming ill founded as, in the middle of the after-work crowd, we spotted our destination, Massis. A curiously subdued venue set amid towering hives of industry the food here is simple, tasty and a wonderful conduit for easy bonhomie among friends.
Keralan Coconut Prawn Curry
A heavenly curry from the ‘Coconut Coast’ of southern India. Packed with flavour and spices but sweet and creamy with delicious coconut and juicy prawns. Every bite literally melts in your mouth
Sausages on line with Simply Real Sausages
Our favourite butchers in London, David House and Justin Preston of Allens of Mayfair, are turning their expert gaze onto Simply Real Sausages, one of the finest sausage makers in London for the past twenty years. Simply Real Sausages are now available nationwide for the first time through their brand new website.
Coach & Horses
Two foraging carnivores have modestly gentrified Clerkenwell’s ‘Coach & Horses’ into gastropub territory. However rather than tick box diners expectant of Michelin frippery alongside a beer garden / sprog storage pen, it now draws genuinely hungry foodies craving good value, hearty quality.