St James

• Gouqi is former Hakkasan chef Tong Chee Hwee's solo restaurant in St James

  

  17/2/23 - updated with launch details

  Slightly out of nowhere, a big-name chef is getting ready to open his own restaurant in London.  

  Gouqi (pronounced Goji) comes from chef Tong Chee Hwee who, after originally building his career in Singapore, came to London to become head chef at Hakkasan in 2001. He followed that with the opening of

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• Test Driving Notto - Phil Howard does pasta on Piccadilly

   

  Top chef Phil Howard has entered the fresh pasta game with Notto. We went down to Piccadilly to see how it shapes up against London's already pretty great fresh pasta restaurants.   

• Test Driving Wiltons' 280th anniversary dinner menu

  

  At a time when a restaurant is doing well to make it to its teenage years, the venerable Wiltons is chalking up an astonishing 280 years of serving up food to Londoners with a special anniversary menu

• Pall Mall gets a new underground champagne bar from Searcys

  

  It's been a movie set for films like The Dark Knight, Gandhi and upcoming release Infinite, now 116 Pall Mall has thrown open its doors to the public with the opening of a new underground bar.

  Called 116 Pall Mall Champagne Bar by Searcys (yes, it's a bit of a mouthful) the new bar, as the name suggests, is going to serve up a lot of fizz including one of the largest selections of magnums in London. There'll be a

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• Test Driving The Pem - Sally Abé's food, showcased in St James

  

  Sally Abé found fame at The Harwood Arms and has now taken over all the food at The Conrad St James. The Pem is the main restaurant there - we went along to see how she's settling in.

• Bardo will be Pall Mall's luxury new Italian restaurant

  

  Bardo will be a luxury Italian restaurant in the heart of St James from club owner Luca Maggiora

• Sally Abé, famed ex Harwood Arms chef, is opening The Pem in St James

  

  After gaining plaudits for her time at The Harwood Arms, Sally Abé arrived in the Conrad St James with her main restaurant - The Pem. It's aiming for an elevated, but fun British dining experience. 

• Test Driving Maison Francois - an instant hit in St James

  

  This modernist French brasserie serves up all the classics and has a very useful downstairs bar too. 

• In and out: Test Driving the grouse menu at 45 Jermyn St. and the Glorious Grouse kit from Mac and Wild

  

  For London's grouse lovers there are two ways to enjoy the game bird - in restaurants and at home. We gave both a try.

• Maison Francois is a new brasserie for St James, taking the old Greens site

  Taking the former address of Greens, Maison Francois will be a brasserie and wine bar, featuring a finalist of Masterchef: The Professionals as chef. 

• Test Driving Wild Honey St James - Anthony Demetre makes a successful move to Pall Mall

  

  Anthony Demetre transfers his much-loved Mayfair restaurant along the road to St James. The good news is it's survived, and indeed thrived from the move.

• Locket's is Wiltons' new cafe and wine bar in St James

  It's been 70 years since the Wiltons group has opened a new restaurant - but they're gearing up to launching something brand new in St James. Locket's will be a brand new cafe and wine bar in the old "Economist Plaza" now redeveloped and renamed Smithson Plaza.

• Wiltons is bringing the Nyetimber routemaster up to Jermyn Street

  

  Jermyn Street isn't the first, second or even third place you'd think of in London as being somewhere to get a great meal deal but, for two days next week, it will be.

  One of London's oldest restaurants is launching its new English sparkling wine collection. And so they've teamed up with Nyetimber to bring The Nyetimber Routemaster up to London, parking it right outside Wiltons on Jermyn Street.

  Inside you'll be able to book a session to have

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• Wild Honey St James sees the restaurant relocating from Mayfair to Pall Mall

  

  It's always lovely being the bearer of glad tidings, and for anyone who was a fan of Mayfair restaurant Wild Honey, this is very good news.

• Farzi Cafe

  Experimental Indian restaurant comes to London