The latest opening from the Hawksmoor geniuses has been billed as something of a break from their established formula of enormous, male-oriented steakhouses and cocktail bars. Early word has been of a quiet neighbourhood restaurant, a more modest and humble undertaking than the big, brash and bold places that have made the company’s name.
Purple-sprouting broccoli, blood red orange cocktails…and the bright yellow of Bird’s custard? It’s a colourful culinary calendar in February for Angela Clutton…
Cabana’s startling multi-coloured facade rears up at me as I approach from the west. Baby…
Squally showers and insistent rain beat down a tattoo on the pavement beneath our feet. The glistening slabs, uniform in their grey municipality, are punctuated only by a discarded fried chicken wing here, a sad single shoe there.
When I visited The Capital about six years ago, I was blown away by the…
Amid the gloom of the inclement weather, there are some joys to be had in January…and many of those to do with food. Angela Clutton breaks open the new year with a look at what’s seasonal this month…
“With its low lighting, shabby chic whitewashed interior and wooden chairs, not to mention Jill greeting guests with “Bonsoir!”, you could almost convince me that I was in France.”
A private members’ club attributed to a saint? Not as odd as it sounds, as Richard Clayman discovers the charity behind this London institution…
Craft brewing is on the up in the UK. But across the pond our American…
If you love a bit of history with some cocktails thrown in, then The Churchill…
“Marrakech – a city of sounds, oscillating through the hot, dry, smoky air from the hoarse but incessant voice box of Jemaa el Fna. Bewitching, enchanting, hypnotising…”
“Outlaw’s at The Capital sounds rather dramatic, like a Sam Pekinpah Western. It is not; it is a very calm, well-mannered, perfectly turned out restaurant in Knightsbridge…”