Knightsbridge

What’s up and coming in London food and drink news? A lot! Here’s this week’s particularly festive round up.

Up to five people clamber up Knightsbridge building.

The “Brompton Diamond”, pictured above, a nine-story residential building, has been approved by Kensington & Chelsea council. As the name would suggest, it’ll be built on Brompton Road, just a short distance from Harrods and the upmarket stores of Knightsbridge. Curiously, this isn’t the first …

It’s enough to make a foodie weep salty tears: Dinner, the new restaurant by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge, has had its opening date pushed back into the new year. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (to give the place its full title) …

Photograph by Julia Pearson The recently opened Bar Boulud, located in the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park is chef Daniel Boulud’s twelfth restaurant and first venture into Europe. The menu features three burgers from DBGB’s menu in NYC the Yankee, the Frenchie, and the Piggie. The …

Photograph courtesy of Nozomi When the Beauchamp Place upscale (as in slebs such as Rihanna dine there) Japanese restaurant, Nozomi, contacted Londonist to give its new bento box lunches a try, we were like “yeah, whatever” and then we saw the £18.95 to £48 price …

A cab driver had a lucky escape earlier this week when a rather clumsy celebrity decided to open her door in the path of his vehicle. The hapless cabbie was trundling along Knightsbridge past Harrods, when the door was carelessly flung open by one Beyoncé …

Fresh from buying Harrods off Lord Fug himself, Qatar Holdings have set out big plans for their £1.5 billion acquisition. Actually, ‘brand’ might be a more apposite word: the new owners are hoping to cash in on the Harrods name by building a store in …

In search of London’s best sandwich since sliced bread Roast lamb and Easter go hand in hand like birthday parties and presents. For many they are inseparable. But tracking down a worthy lamb sandwich has proved far harder than you would have thought. In fact …

Image by bishib70 As the Piccadilly line screams from Knightsbridge to South Kensington, bending itself around the dense-packed remains of a plague pit interred in the soil, it passes the tomb of Brompton Road, just one of the many long-closed stations that lie strewn beneath …