With a commitment to long-term curation and partnership with the Chinatown London community, Shaftesbury has announced that ICHIBUNS, the brand new Japanese-inspired dining concept promising luxury fast food, has opened its debut site at 22 Wardour Street in Chinatown London, one of the West End’s most iconic destinations. The 3,900 sq ft,130 cover restaurant spread across … [Read more...]
The cook and the critic at Jikoni
On the 8th October, Chef Patron Ravinder Bhogal and leading food critic Jay Rayner will join forces to cook a feast in aid of Action Against Hunger’s Love Food Give Food Campaign to help end child hunger. The event will also mark the first birthday of Ravinder’s restaurant, Jikoni. Rayner will swap his pen for a pan as he goes from dining room to kitchen to help cook the … [Read more...]
James Cochran EC3 launches Saturday Dinner Service
James Cochran EC3 celebrates its new Saturday dinner service on October 7th with a decadent one-off menu entitled James' Last Supper. The 6 course menu will comprise of Whitstable rock oyster, champagne & yoghurt foam served with a glass of champagne on arrival. It will then include the likes of Foie Gras parfait cigar - Roast Orkney scallop, Jerusalem artichokes, crispy … [Read more...]
Customers are turning to takeaways to avoid restaurants’ background noise
Almost half of potential diners (43%) have opted for a takeaway instead of eating out because of restaurants’ increasingly intrusive background noise, a survey commissioned by UK charity Action on Hearing Loss has found. The online survey of 1200 members of the general public also found that the optimum acoustic environment for eating out for 70% of people was some … [Read more...]
Streetsmart launches 2017 campaign and celebrates two decades of helping homeless people
“StreetSmart’s ambitions are to connect the lucky citizen who can dine out with the unlucky ones for whom dining out means queuing up in front of food banks.” – Stephen Fry First established in 1998, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of StreetSmart, a charity fundraising for homeless and vulnerable people through the support of top restaurants across the UK every … [Read more...]