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Vinoteca opens biggest site yet at One Pancras Square
Vinoteca: horseshoe bar. Photo: PR Ten years after their first shop in Farringdon, today sees foodie twosome Brett Woonton and Charlie Young launch their most ambitious Vinoteca site yet. Based at One...
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Review: Bonnie Gull, Exmouth Market
Why not sit at the window counter stools and watch the colourful parade outside? Photo: PR Exmouth Market is one of the few streets in London where it’s nigh on impossible to make a bad eating choice....
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MUST DO: check out the new Lewis Cubitt Square and Park in King’s Cross
Almost bucolic: Lewis Cubitt Park News just in: the official opening of Lewis Cubitt Square and Park takes place in King’s Cross on Saturday. Let’s hope the weather cheers up, eh? This is quite a big...
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A Perfect Sunday: Slow Food & Living Market at Rosewood London
Gastronomica stall at Rosewood Slow Food & Living Market Holborn’s Rosewood London Hotel already has a reputation as the luxe hangout of choice via acclaim for Scarfes Bar, Holborn Dining Rooms et...
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Review: Vinoteca
So bright and airy: Vinoteca. Photo: PRA decade after their first shop in Farringdon, foodie twosome Brett Woonton and Charlie Young have just launched their most ambitious Vinoteca site yet on King’s...
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100 posh burgers FREE at St Pancras Station every day next week
The UK’s first Truffle Burger. Fancy it for free? A 100% beef patty infused with French black truffle and topped with lashings of rich summer truffle aioli? Sounds like a fairly compelling excuse for a...
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Review: Rotunda, King’s Cross
The ‘secret garden’: water surrounds the terrace on two sides. Photo: Rotunda This modern British restaurant opened seven years ago just as the Guardian newspaper moved into the upstairs floors. It’s...
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Review: Camino, King’s Cross
Camino has a terrace to dine on and a bustling courtyard drinking space. Photo: PR It’s been open nearly a decade, but did you know Camino started the vogue for huge, upmarket restaurants in the area?...
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Review: Granger & Co, Pancras Square
Very airy and light. Photo: Petrina Tinsley Lingering on this spanking new piazza, otherwise known as Pancras Square, provides an insight into what it will look like once the German Gymnasium building...
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Review: The Canonbury, Islington
Sun dappled: Islington’s imposing Canonbury Tavern. Photo: PR I have history with the Canonbury. Back in the early noughties, working in an office a few minutes’ walk away, this handsome pub, with one...
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Skip Garden Cafe: from planter to plate
Tipping point: watering the produce at the Skip Garden, King’s Cross. Photo: John Sturrock You’d be forgiven for thinking today’s King’s Cross is all about hi-tech new Google buildings, swish dining on...
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Review: Barzetti Italian Kitchen, St Pancras Station
Freesh pizza before Paris. Barzetti at St Pancras Station. Photo: PR If you grew up in the eighties or nineties the all-too-familiar Upper Crust kiosks were synonymous with the whole grey railway...
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Review: Casa Tua King’s Cross
A selection of sharing plates at Casa Tua. Photo: PR The tiny original branch of Casa Tua, opposite Camden Road station, has become an NW1 institution over the last few years, whether for a strong...
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Perilla: restaurant review
Perilla occupies what used to be a children’s party venue. Photo: PR This particular story starts on a chilly midweek night. I’m meeting a couple of friends, one of whom I haven’t seen for over a...
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Review: Pilau, Goodge Street
The winning lamb dish. Photo: PR It’s not often you meet a 23-year-old who has opened not one, but two restaurants in central London in the space of a year. Not that Tufnell Park born and bred George...
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Kiln W1: restaurant review
The lucky few: counter seating at Kiln. Photo: PR It’s not exactly a pioneering discovery on our part. This second restaurant from Smoking Goat founder Ben Chapman has enjoyed a flurry of hyperbole...
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Maple & King’s is opening in King’s Cross
Seasonal and healthy. Photo: PR Brunch places and their ilk seem to be cleaning up around N1C at the moment: invariably queues snake out of Granger & Co or Dishoom, and the likes of Caravan and...
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What’s Cigala in Bloomsbury like these days?
The room absorbs all-comers. Photo: PR Cigala is a Spanish dining room like they used to make them. It manages that rare achievement of being neighbourhood for WC1, yet cosmopolitan – and, in fact,...
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5 things you should eat at Rotunda
1. Crispy sole, shellfish butter (£18.50) Smokey fishiness. Photo: PR This main is a corker. A chubby fish finger of butter-light white flesh in the lightest breadcrumbs straddles smoked potato mash...
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Signature Dish: Bavette at De Beauvoir Arms
Handsome: the De Beauvoir. Photo: Ewan_M/ Flickr It’s the archetypal classic grown-up north London gastropub: high ceilings, dark panelling, a chalked-up menu with Mediterranean influences and a...
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