Knightsbridge

  • Cantinetta Antinori comes to London with Florentine T-bones and fine wines

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    Updated 31/3/23 with more details

    The Antinori family are arguably the most famous name in Italian wines, so it's fair to expect that their upcoming London restaurant will have a pretty decent wine list. Cantinetta Antinori will be an interesting team-up in Knightsbridge between the Italian winemakers and the Monaco family - the Giraudis - who opened Le Petit Beefbar in London last year.

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  • Burnt Ends is coming to London, opening at Harrods

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    Are there no limits to the ambition of Harrods' food and drink team? Not content with luring Bjorn Frantzen over this year to open his first UK restaurant, and teaming up with Masayoshi Takayama, they're now working on bringing in another World's 50 Best restaurant -

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  • Harrods and three-star Michelin chef Masayoshi Takayama team up for new restaurant

    Harrods and three-star Michelin chef Masayoshi Takayama team up for new restaurant

    In a somewhat tantalisingly short bombshell, department store Harrods has declared its next partnership will be with a renowned Japanese chef. Masayoshi Takayama (more commonly known as ‘Masa’) is a bit of a sushi legend, rumoured to have helped kickstart the Los Angeles obsession with sushi when he moved there and opened a restaurant in 1980.

    Masa trained at

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  • Chisou

    Sushi in Knightsbridge

  • Test Driving Studio Frantzen - a Swedish makeover for Harrods

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    Top chef Bjorn Frantzen has arrived in Harrods with a huge restaurant devoted to his Nordic/Asian cuisine - and a new rooftop to boot. We went down to Knightsbridge to check it out. 

  • Studio Frantzén is Björn Frantzén's Harrods restaurant in London

    Studio Frantzén is Björn Frantzén's new Harrods restaurant

    Updated 28/11/22 with interior images

    Almost a year ago, Harrods has dropped the culinary bombshell that they had persuaded none other than Björn Frantzén to open a restaurant at the Knightbridge store.

    If you are wondering who Björn is and why this is such a big deal, well Frantzén is ...

  • Test Driving The Berkeley's new pop-up pub - The Bishop

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    The Berkeley has launched a new wintry pop-up - and this one is based on a classic pub. We went along for beer, scotch eggs and to see how they've managed to evoke a proper British pub in the heart of Knightsbridge.  

  • Harrods has a fabulous new gingerbread Café Dior pop-up

    Harrods has a fabulous new gingerbread Café Dior pop-up

    Grab your handbags, Harrods is bringing the best of fashion and food together, with a gingerbread-themed Café Dior opening on its ground floor for a limited time.

    Yes, the department store that needs no introduction and which certainly doesn’t shy away from extravagance, is taking your gingerbread fantasies to the next level. You can book now for that catch-up with a friend that is more than a

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  • The Bishop at The Berkeley is the Knightsbridge hotel's new winter pub pop-up

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    Updated 8/11/22 with images

    If you've been wondering what form the alfresco space at The Berkeley would take on for winter, let us enlighten you. This year they've moved away from Alpine influences and gone instead for their own British gastropub. The Bishop at The Berkeley will be, they say, a place to "pop in for a shandy and snacks".

    On the menu you'll find:

    • Crispy pork
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  • Cedric Grolet launches his take on afternoon tea - Goutea

    Cedric Grolet launches his take on afternoon tea - Goutea

    Cedric Grolet hugely impressed us when he opened on these shores with his patisserie and cafe early this year in The Berkeley. Now the renowned French pastry chef is moving onto the most obvious next step - his take on afternoon tea.

    Just kicking off at Cedric

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  • Mykonos restaurant Nammos is coming to London

    Mykonos restaurant Nammos is coming to London

    They started in Mykonos, expanded to Cannes, Dubai and more - and now Nammos is coming to London. 

    Opening in Knightsbridge, just across the road from Harrods, they're taking over a Grade II listed building and are calling it an "an elegant and more refined version of its original concept" so it sounds like we might be in for another impressive-looking dining room in London. 

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  • Salt Bae's Knightsbridge restaurant made £7m in just three months

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    He has his fans and his detractors, but Salt Bae is laughing all the way to the bank it seems. According to accounts posted this week and reported by industry news folk Propel, the condiment sprinkling restaurateur made a whopping £7m from the first three months of trading.

    That, if you'd like us to break it down for you, means his Knightsbridge restaurant was working on a turnover of over £500k a week. Even

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  • Salt Bae has launched his London restaurant roof terrace

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    If, like us, you're still following Salt Bae on Insta from the time he opened his London restaurant you'll probably have noticed that the Bae was back in town this past week. And, while he was here, of course, to sprinkle condiments ostentatiously on his customers' dishes, he was also on hand to launch the restaurant's new roof terrace.

    Perched above the restaurant (so really more first floor terrace rather

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  • Harrods launch a new permanent Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar

    Harrods launch a new permanent Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar

    Updated 28/6/22 with opening date and menu info

    Harrods is on a bit of a roll at the moment. There's a new high-end patisserie on the way. And we still have the big launch of ...

  • Isibani brings West African dining to Knightsbridge

    Isibani brings West African dining to Knightsbridge

    A Hot Dinners exclusive

    London's growing West African restaurant scene is getting bigger with new restaurant Isibani, heading to Knightsbridge. Set up by Anthony Douglas Chuka and Abdul Malik Abubakar, the duo are describing it as "a love letter to West African cuisine".

    Leading the restaurant's food will be head chef Victor Okunowo, previously at Talking Drum

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