restaurants

Photo by Roxy London Your waiter’s service has been as smooth as the cappuccino that rounds off the end of your meal in a restaurant; you dig deep into your pockets and decide to leave a generous tip to show your appreciation – but a …

Quaglinos On 1st October, D&D who own several well known, high end restaurants in London took the bold step of scrapping the 12.5% “discretionary” service charge applied to all bills following new legislation on tipping. Instead, they committed to allowing customers to tip as they …

Photography by Dave Gorman via the Londonist Flickr pool Every day until Christmas the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective …

Gastronomical prices for eating out in London have dropped slightly for the first time since 1997, according to Zagat’s, which in publishing these findings is in no way trying to scrape some publicity together for its just-released London Restaurants 2010. Before you go ordering that …

Okay folks, as we mentioned last month, we’re teaming up with the Hardens to help spread the word about their 19th annual restaurant survey. As you probably already know (or at least definitely should!), all of the survey participants will receive a complimentary copy of …

Fifty melons for £10. Sounds like a bargain, until you see their Lilliputian dimensions. The Pepquino melon measures just 3 cm across, is said to taste of slightly sour cucumbers and resembles a swollen caterpillar. The diminutive fruit is set to become the foody fad …

Back in the beginning of March, when we sat down to interview Peter Harden (one half of the mastermind brothers behind the ever resourceful Harden’s restaurant guides), we had no idea what kind of fruitful seeds we were sowing. Now a little over a month …

Meet with Peter Harden (one half of the mastermind brothers behind the handy dandy Harden’s restaurant guides) and there’s a good chance you’ll be treated to an insightful and entertaining lesson in the history of restaurants … or of Brits and our relationship with food …

The atheist advert campaign has doubled in donations since we reported at midday. Over £33,000 has now been pledged towards the vehicular proselytizing. Something altogether more sinister may have traveled on our buses. Arachnophobes: avoid Brentford. More money thrown at knife problem. Michelin-starred chef turned …

People may have scoffed at a gaggle of underdressed girls wiggling their glutes and calling it Girl Power, but twelve years after invoking ladies to “slam their bodies down and wind them all around”, Emma Bunton has finally done Emmeline Pankhurst proud: she’s bankrolling her …