Click click click, it’s London Fashion Week. If all that strutting has you thirsty, head down to the St Martin’s Lane Hotel for the Cointreau Privé pop-up bar and cocktails galore.
What’s On: September
Symbolically, September represents not only a seasonal shift but the shuffling in of new trends, new menus and new restaurants. Here’s a selection of the months restaurant news for the times that are a-changing while the season turn turn turns.
The concierge who loved me
Experiential dining: Stefan Nicolaou puts his palette in the hands of others at a secret location and lobby full of puns at Lime & Tonic’s Dine Another Day.
elBulli: Ferran Adriàand The Art of Food at Somerset House
It’s a well curated, imaginatively laid out exhibition with excellent use of audio visual. The sombre lighting and the glass cases however can make you forget that this is actually about food, something which should be joyous and flooded with light and laughter.
The Blues Explosion at XOYO
Camden’s favorite rockin’ n’ rollin’ restaurant, The Blues Kitchen, will be invading East London’s XOYO on 1st September. Food, fashion and music abound! Details on this one dayer can be found inside.
Gourmet Grub from Gousto
Unlike conventional meal planning, where you spend hours poring over recipe books, shopping for the required ingredients and then lugging your groceries home, the hardest part of using Gousto’s service is deciding what you fancy to eat.
Vini Italiani
Alan Kingsbury buys a ticket to a life-long favourite stamping ground and discovers a very welcome new arrival in the form of an all-Italian wine merchant with some very classy stock.
Breakfast in London -hold the baked beans
When it comes to breakfast, if you’re in need of a culinary wake-up call, head to Central London, says Catherine Jones
Adam Byatt: Game Changer
Poppy Laking sits down with restaurateur and Chef Adam Byatt to talk about his Glorious Twelfth menus for Trinity and Bistro Union, and what to do with grouse now that the game season is afoot.
What’s on: August
You can bank on us for the holiday weekend. Looking ahead through August to early September, here’s a guide of what’s hot before it gets cold.