Dining

The project promises to give nearby Borough Market a run for its money on Saturdays

How a once-seedy, unfashionable area of London is becoming a magnet for discerning food lovers

One pop-up restaurant, one top-grade hotel and two floral spectaculars in Chelsea Barracks.

If walls could speak, as the saying goes, Jermyn Street’s lichen-pocked edifices could dictate a wonderfully rich tome about the city in whose dead centre it resides: for this is one of those thoroughfares where stuff, for whatever reason, just happens. Home, over the years, to tailors, cheesemongers, parfumiers, milliners and shirtmakers (including James Bond’s […]

How Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed built a culinary marvel in an unlikely place.

There’s a famous scene in The Spy Who Loved Me where baddie Karl Stromberg sits feasting in his sub-aqua dining room, sharks hustling impatiently at the windows. It’s an ominous, dark, dramatic tableau and one purely confined to celluloid – until now. Under is a 110-foot long underwater restaurant-cum-aquarium showcasing the wonders of the deep, […]

What better way to celebrate the dawn of a new imperial era than with 6 lbs. of beef, truffles and foie gras.

Let’s be honest: London’s Thai food scene took a nosedive when pub-goers started regularly ordering pad Thai, instead of pie, with their pints. What started off as a well-executed ruse at The Churchill Arms near Kensington Palace soon degenerated into an insult to a distant nation’s fine culinary tradition, once any hipster who’d spent a […]

Islington bolthole 1251,  Marylebone Indian restaurant Trishna and Hawaiian joint Island Poké Soho will be among the revered London culinary spots gracing this year’s Taste of London event, which takes place in Regent’s Park from 19-23 June. Now, the line-up has been further boosted with the mouth-watering news that Wolfgat – the South African eatery […]

A Michelin-starred Mayfair haven for bona fide epicureans