Category: Food & drinks

  • Inside Viajante87, the hidden cocktail bar serving late-night Latin-American energy

    Notting Hill, West London – Cocktail bar & late-night venue If you’re longing for a direct flight to Mexico but have four remaining days of annual leave to ration until August, you might as well make peace with it over a Horchata Colada at a Latin American bar in Notting Hill. Viajante87 (viajante meaning traveller…

  • Poolhouse is London’s most glamorous new venue – and yes, you’re there to play pool

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    The team behind Topgolf and Puttshack have a clear formula: take something familiar, strip it back, rebuild it properly, and make the room beautiful while you’re at it. Poolhouse – their latest venue, now open at 100 Liverpool Street – applies the same logic to pool. Twenty tables across 21,000 square feet, AI-assisted gameplay, a…

  • This just in: Wahaca is giving away free chocolate ice cream tacos next week

    A Tony’s Chocolonely ice cream taco is exactly the kind of fever-dream creation Willy Wonka would have scrawled on a napkin at 3am. We’d absolutely pay serious money for it, and we’re fairly confident we’re not alone on this one. But for one day only, Wahaca is kindly treating Londoners to 100 of these marvellous…

  • Weezie’s is the new thin-crust pizza spot to land in Eccleston Yards, from the team behind Amie Wine Studio

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    There are certain parts of London that just have it figured out. Eccleston Yards – that quiet, cobbled pocket of Belgravia – is one of them. It’s the kind of enchanting summer place where you pop in for a glass of wine and somehow end up staying for three hours. A lot of that is…

  • The Cellar Club: There’s now a cocktail bar hiding under one of Bermondsey’s best restaurants

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    Flour & Grape has been one of the better Italian restaurants in South London for years. But the most exciting thing about it right now might actually be what’s underneath it. The Cellar Club just opened in the basement, and it’s a proper cocktail bar – not a refined hotel bar with a posh menu,…

  • Award-winning Scarfes Bar has a new Heroes & Villains cocktail menu, and it’s dangerously good

    There are bars that serve cocktails, and then there are bars that serve pure art in cocktail form. Scarfes Bar has been doing the latter since it opened in 2014, and its accomplishments over the years have earned it all the bragging rights. Its trophy cabinet includes No. 31 in the World’s 50 Best Bars,…

  • We visited El Siete, Soho’s new underground agave bar – here’s why you should too

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    We visited El Siete, Soho’s new underground agave bar – here’s why you should too Tucked beneath the much-loved taco spot El Pastor on Brewer Street, El Siete is one of Soho’s newest underground drinking dens – a low-lit cocktail bar devoted almost entirely to the world of agave. The two-weeks old bar, opened on…

  • We tried Tamila, the new South Indian hotspot in Soho – here’s what you should order

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    Described by the founders as a “modern curry house,” Tamila has had an impressively swift growth trajectory. From a street food stall at Hackney Bridge in 2021 to three permanent outposts by 2026, its expansion points to a clear appetite for a more contemporary, distinctly British-Indian way of eating. Helmed by Tamil chef Prince Durairaj…

  • Strike while the iron is hot: We visited Flipdog, the new Shoreditch bar making cocktails with an iron poker

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    As keen self-proclaimed cocktail connoisseurs who have done our fair share of laps around London’s bar scene, we’re always on the lookout for the next bar that will shake things up – quite literally. Because in a city where bartenders clarify and ferment almost everything under the sun, innovation isn’t always easy to come by.…

  • Afternoon tea at Mariage Frères: It’s a full Bridgerton moment, but don’t wear a corset

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    How many times have you absentmindedly wandered around Covent Garden? Dozens, if not hundreds, we would guess. And yet, if you’re like us (embarrassingly), you may never have noticed that just a stone’s throw from the square sits Mariage Frères, a five-storey townhouse serving over 1,000 varieties of tea. Upstairs, the Salon de Thé offers…