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Borough Market favourites Applebee’s Fish expand to the South Bank The last 25 years has seen Applebee’s Fish go through an interesting evolution. Located at the entrance to Borough Market, perhaps the heart of London’s food scene this last two decades, Applebee’s has morphed from a fish stall to celebrated restaurant. It’s also happened under…
Well, yes, potentially, with M Canary Wharf’s Symphony Experience multi-sensory dining experience Dinner and a show. There’s an old school date idea you don’t hear very often these days. And one that M Canary Wharf has, effectively, ripped up and rebuilt in very different fashion. This time dinner is, effectively, also the show. The Symphony…
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester has held three Michelin stars for a remarkable 15 years. Julian de Féral discovers the decision is entirely justified. Just across the road from the whirling chaos of Winter Wonderland, The Dorchester in all its resplendence remains uncharacteristically quiet for this time of the year. The main entrance is temporarily…
It’s ten years since Ollie Dabbous arrived in London, in a flurry of gushing reviews and rapidly won Michelin stars, and four years since he opened the impressive Hide. Julian de Féral finds out how things are holding up – possibly literally – at Above at Hide. Although having witnessed the delights and deft touch…
Sleek Scandi restaurant Aquavit launches a new series of tasting menus. Which, due to a typo, nearly came out as tasing menu, which sounds like something specialist offered in apartments in Soho. But we digress… Aquavit, the little slice of Scandinavia in London’s St James’s Market’s is launching a series of tasting menus on the…
Kasa and Kin is a new Filipino all-day eatery, in Soho. Lusso takes a look. My great Uncle Mattia was fond of taking me to Soho back when the place could actually claim to be a village. I would tag along as he pollenated the delis and coffee bars that brought him back to his…
Don’t take our word for it, take Michelin’s… Gusto by Sadler, the restaurant at the Baglioni Resort Sardinia has been awarded a Michelin star. A hell of an achievement, frankly, for a restaurant, and resort, that only opened in June 2021. The hotel group, which boasts three hotels in Italy’s finest art cities – Florence,…
And, in the case of Novikov, it’s been around for ten years. Cast your mind back to December 2011. The X Factor had just created Little Mix. Bolton Wanderers were still a Premiership side. The Marvel Universe was five films in, rather than 26. And celebrated legendary Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov had just launched his…
Well, it’s draughts, actually, for chef Ben Murphy’s new menu concept, but hey, they’re the same shape as chips, and “Place & Draughts” doesn’t work as a pun… And moving swiftly on from the sub-editor’s plight, Kensington’s Launceston Place has a new menu concept. That’s a pairing of words that normally terrifies and annoys us…
Chelsea’s acclaimed seafood restaurants spreads East… In an interesting twist of restaurant fate, Chelsea’s celebrated seafood specialists The Sea, The Sea are expanding to Hackney. We’ve seen many a hip pop-up start East and move West, of course, this is the first time we can remember seeing the opposite journey. Overseen by executive chef Leo…