Category: Food & drinks
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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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Review: Bancone City is Italy in all its glory – ballsy, bold and beautiful. As close to Rome as it gets
It starts, as so many minor life crises do, with a photo on the internet. The silk handkerchief pasta – technically fazzoletti, those impossibly thin, folded sheets of fresh pasta draped in walnut butter and pooling around a confit egg yolk – is one of those images you encounter once and simply can’t get out of…
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Review: Workshop Cafe & Academy – The beloved London roaster is back with excellent coffee and real neighbourhood charm
If you’ve ever wandered through Eccleston Yards on a Saturday morning -takeaway cup in hand, feeling inexplicably smug about your postcode – you’ll already understand the particular energy of this corner of Belgravia. It’s one of those eclectic London areas that feels both genuinely neighbourhood-y and semi-aspirational: independent boutiques, café terraces, and the kind of crowd that…
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May in food: The best London restaurants launching this month
Throughout the first few months of this year, we’ve ridden some grand, sweeping waves of restaurant and bar openings. Among the mass, Weezie’s claimed its spot next to sibling Amie Wine, Fenix brought full Greek island chic to Mayfair, and Poolhouse launched the UK’s biggest pool site to date. But spring has turned up the…
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Review: Sova is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern European wine – and it arrived at the right time
The beginning of April saw a number of exciting restaurants blossom – and even in the midst of some loud voices at the table – Sova managed to be heard. Meaning “owl” in several Slavic languages, Sova is the new Eastern European restaurant/bar to land in Ladbroke Grove, taking over the old ZIMA Notting Hill…
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Review: Viajante87 is 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…
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Poolhouse is London’s most glamorous new venue – and yes, you’re there to play pool
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…
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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…
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