Chef restaurateur John McClements has just opened a new restaurant, A Taste of McClements, in Kew. Working together with head chef Reality Champ, John has created a tasting menu-only format, which will see a menu of around 16 dishes, served to diners in a bijou, 20-seat dining room.
Esca embraces new city location
Esca, Clapham’s renowned local eaterie, has launched its third store at London’s newest urban development, New Street Square. Esca New Street Square combines a contemporary food hall, deli, patisserie and café, serving breakfast through to dinner.
East end buoys and West End grill
New brasserie brings West End style and quality cuisine to London’s Royal Victoria Dock. The Docklands Bar & Grill, set in the heart of London’s Docklands, offers stunning views of the Capital’s waterfront, mixed with traditional British and European cuisine and unique drinks menus
Arabesques join kidney pies and ginger fudge cake at seasonal Ice Cafe
Are you searching for a romantic night for someone special? After dazzingly your date with arabesques, treat them to apple toddies, Rhug Estate beef and shallot pie, and ginger fudge cake at the seasonal Ice Cafe.
Foliage Head Chef takes off with Lufthansa
High flying travellers now have even more reason to take to the air with Lufthansa. The leading German airline is famous for having only the best chefs to cater for their First and Business Class passengers’ discerning tastes. Now Chris Staines, Head Chef of the Michelin-starred Foliage Restaurant at the Five Star Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, has joined the culinary mile high club.
Hungry like the wolf?
Lupo, the wolf and surrogate mother to Romulus and Remus, is the symbolic mother of ancient Rome and Italy and new restaurant Bocca di Lupo, the mouth of Italy, will showcase regional Italian cuisines evocative of their terroir and history.
108 Marylebone Lane Restaurant In London
Once upon a time in a job far far away, I used to walk from Oxford Circus to Marylebone for my pub lunch and pint. This was before the ban on lunch hours in general, and drinking during them in particular, became common HR policy. Back then it seemed a cute little backwater area and really nothing has changed. Marylebone Lane still meanders pleasantly, as indeed I used to on those occasions when one pint had slipped into three. I couldn’t afford a restaurant then but I can now, especially at 108’s prices.
Gourmet San restaurant in London
‘Hello? Is that the Chinese takeaway? Great, can I have Ox tendon in spicy oil, fried green beans with preserved vegetable and chilli, Sichuan style tofu and seafood, fried pork tendons in spicy salt, a skewered whole quail and the fried lamb with onion and lots of cumin and chilli. What do you mean you’ve never heard of any of that? What kind of Chinese restaurant are you?”
Felix Hunt- the gourmet that goes all the way
Greetings once again. As I get older there may come a time when I can no longer pilot the Rolls around London ‘s restaurants. At which point I will become obliged to stay at home, either in our agreeable Mayfair flat or in our modest mansion in the country. There I will survive on a diet of Waitrose and Marks and Spencer meals all brought to me by my latest young male assistant via the magic of the Interwe