Restaurants

Nascent during the 1990s, bacchanalian lunches have fallen out of favour in London. While decadent business lunches would have once stretched long into the afternoon, the era of lavish feasts and lenient expense accounts is long gone. Nowadays, financial pressures and time restraints have, for the most part, fuelled a growth in popularity surrounding desk lunches: uninspired salads or wet sandwiches and burnt coffee from Pret. At the beginning of 2017, Lloyds of London even went so far as to...

I’ve said it before, but one of my favourite things about London is our access to so many world cuisines . Most of the time, we don’t even have to travel far to be able to sample something new. Perhaps it’s just because I’m partial to it, but it seems that the last couple of years have really opened Londoners’ eyes to the variety of Asian cuisine, taking our taste buds further than the previous backstop of a Friday night...

International restaurateur Alexandros Andrianopoulos makes his long-overdue debut on the London food scene with a “complete luxury lifestyle experience” based in the former headquarters of Cartier watchmakers on Avery Street. Boasting “five layers of pleasure” and littered with a barrage of sensory adjectives throughout its marketing material Onima looks and feels like a (somewhat seedy) gentleman’s club, with lights dimmed, neon abound and staff that look like they have just walked off the catwalk. If Marco Pierre White and Peter...

Following the over-indulgent period that bids farewell to the previous year, Pho – the Vietnamese street food-inspired restaurant group, with 27 restaurants now operating across the UK – has launched a new health-conscious menu of vegan and low calorie dishes. Available in all of the brand’s restaurants until the end of February, the new menu intends to offer diners a flexible approach to enjoying the restaurant’s staple dishes, inspired by a growing demand for dishes catering for a diverse range...

On the ground floor of the Euston Square Hotel (next to Euston Square station), VQ Euston is the fifth restaurant to open under the VQ restaurant umbrella. Similar to the other locations, the concept is all-day dining with opening hours running from 7am to 2am, seven days a week. Building on the monochromatic design scheme of the original VQ Chelsea and Fulham Road locations, designers Busby Webb have used dark walnut and burgundy tones in this location, with accents of...

Veganuary and Dry January are a hot topic as we move into 2019, with a recent survey conducted by VoucherCodes revealing news that 12 per cent (one in 10) Brits aim to cut down on alcohol this year, while more than 2.66 million of us will attempt to ditch meat and dairy in 2019. It’s thus fitting that Kym’s, the new restaurant from Michelin-starred chef Andrew Wong, will host a one-off collaboration with Seedlip next week (Wednesday 16th January), to...

Kutir - the first solo project from Rohit Ghai and Abhi Sangwan - has the potential to become London's next go-to dining destination.

“After a few years on the restaurant scene, we decided that we wanted to start up our own ventures, and have the freedom to create our own menus,” says James Lakie, co-founder of StudMuffin, a new addition to Pop Brixton. Since launching in 2015, Pop has (amongst other commendable feats) functioned as a carousel of restaurants and street food vendors, some more compelling than others. Conquering the unit formerly occupied by Duck Duck Goose – one of 2017’s most loveable...

2018 has been an interesting year for London restaurants. The news of prominent closures has perhaps dominated, with the likes of St. JOHN on Maltby Street, Marianne Lumb’s eponymous Notting Hill restaurant, Stevie Parle’s Rotorino, Jason Atherton’s Sosharu and both Madame D and Gul & Sepoy from the team behind Gunpowder having ceased trading. The impending impact of Brexit has also been much discussed in regard to restaurant closures, with many big named restaurateurs having expressed their concerns over uncertainty...