Category: Food & drinks
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June in food: the must-know restaurants and bars launching in London this month
Warm days arrive and everyone decides, all at once, that they deserve a seat in a leafy terrace. And rightfully so – this is the time to relish every bit of scorching sun we can get. May was a notably strong month for openings but June is giving us plenty of reasons to make our…
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Review: Idalia – Forget a love affair, this modern British restaurant is marriage material
When you find a restaurant that’s elegant but not pretentious, grand but not show-offy, and doesn’t feel like it’s style over substance, you should pat yourself in the back for the extraordinary discovery. Idalia feels like such a precious find that our instinct is to keep this place to ourselves. Luckily, there are 300 seats…
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Wahaca brings the heat this summer with a new seasonal menu
Wahaca has launched its summer menu, and it reads like a postcard from somewhere sunnier than a Soho street. The beloved Mexican restaurant chain – which has been feeding the UK since 2007 and holds the title of the country’s most sustainable restaurant group – has unveiled a run of new dishes and drinks that…
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The hip brunch place Morena, in Eccleston Yards, is now open for dinner with a new spring menu
Nothing pairs better with a sunny weekend than a long, leisurely brunch – especially somewhere that feels worlds away from London’s hectic streets. For many, Morena is the go-to place to get your avocado toast + Aperol fix. Opened in 2020 in the charming Eccleston Yards, the restaurant is influenced by Latin American cuisine but…
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Fulham has a new Italian gelateria of dreams – welcome La Gelateria Della Luna
Ice cream shops are ubiquitous in London, but say the magic word (Italian) and we’re merrily gearing up to queue for one hour for a £5+ scoop. There is no ice cream quite like proper Italian gelato. Made in small batches, churned slower and served at a slightly warmer temperature than regular ice cream, proper…
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Review: Banquet88 serves the most homely, filling, and feel-good Cantonese food
The team behind Good Fortune Club – the dim sum institution with outposts in Wimbledon and Ealing that Londoners have been devoted to for years – has gone bigger (and, arguably, better). Banquet 88 has just landed in St Katharine Docks this May, and it means business: 140 covers, a private dining room, stunning water…
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Review: Lokal is a welcome escape from Oxford Street, one mezze at a time
Burak Demirelli has form. The restaurateur behind Faros – the Mediterranean-Italian restaurant that has become one of central London’s most reliably loved spots, with two packed-out sites in Holborn and Oxford Circus — and Fred Bakery, the viennoiserie destination that Londoners were making pilgrimages to before it even had a second location, knows how to…
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Review: Holy Carrot Bistro is the holy grail of vegetarian food, and it puts non-veggie restaurants to shame
Vegetarians walk into restaurants like battle-hardened soldiers who already know the terrain. While their meat-eating companions settle in for an odyssey of options, they brace themselves for the inevitable: a grilled cauliflower, an asparagus risotto if luck is on their side, and the feeling of mild humiliation for not really being wanted there. Give them…
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Review: Mitsu is refined and utterly alluring – the new see-and-be-seen sushi spot
London’s sushi scene has long been a tale of two extremes: the grab-and-go conveyor belt, or the soulless chain. Neither particularly compelling if you’re looking to impress someone, or simply after a swanky night out. And there hasn’t been a truly noteworthy sushi launch in the capital for a while. The short version, and the…
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Review: Chargal welcomes you like family – a really posh Turkish family, that is
Chargal – the name a compression of charcoal and mangal, the Turkish word for grill – is the latest project from Serdar Demir, the restaurateur behind The Mantl in Knightsbridge, a man who has spent the better part of 25 years thinking seriously about what modern Turkish dining in London could and should look like. The answer,…
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