Liverpool Street Chop House: Should you go over Hawksmoor, Boisdale? Life&Style The closure of Threadneedle Street’s M Restaurant earlier this year, after a decade slinging the capital’s finest steak, was a genuine blow. One of the restaurants that helped the Square Mile shake off its stuffy reputation, it combined a meticulous, scholarly appreciation of meat with a sense of fun, even whimsy. Robot waiters, wine vending [...]
Coco di Mama boss: ‘Extreme’ tube strikes pressuring hospitality at crucial time hospitality Coco di Mama’s boss has said that the significant tube strikes this week have put pressure on the sector at a difficult time. The strikes, which began on September 7, have caused mass disruption in the City as Londoners attempt to find other ways to get to work or opt to stay at home. “It’s [...]
Bleak ‘hospitality zones’ will make London nightlife even worse Opinion Proposed ‘hospitality zones’ for alfresco dining are little more than top-down attempts at vibrancy which will move nightlife away from where it’s already thriving into sterile Boxpark clones, says Tom Jones It is a Saturday night. Your exhaustion from a week of open-plan purgatory – the train delays, the Slack pings, the passive-aggressive tone of [...]