South Bank

  • Spiritland Festival Hall is a new all day (and late night) South Bank spot

    spiritlandintSpiritland's new Festival Hall digs gives as much importance to what's playing and how it sounds as what's being served up. Oh and it's open very late too. 

  • We stop by Dandelyan, The World’s Best bar, to sample their final cocktail menu

    allcocktailsIn case you hadn’t already heard, Dandelyan - recently crowned World’s Best Bar 2018 - is set to close in March 2019. We stopped by to check out their fifth and final menu. 

  • Bleecker returns for burgers on the South Bank

    Bleecker returns for burgers on the South Bank

    Just in time for the sunny weather, Bleecker is back on the South Bank. If you haven't yet had the pleasure of a mighty Bleecker Burger in the sunshine, then there's no better time than this weekend to head down there and check them out. 

    They'll be in their usual spot by the Golden Jubilee Bridge, where you'll be able to get all the back cheeseburgers, blue burgers and angry fries that you can handle. And we'll bet

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  • London in the Sky 2018 trebles with three sky-high tables and three top chefs

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    London has no shortage of restaurants with decent views but once you've eaten at London in the Sky everything else must pale by comparison. After all, what bricks and mortar restaurant can compare to being winched 100ft up in the air so you can dine suspended over the city?

    For the past four years this restaurant has been popping up all over London and for 2018 it's trebling in size and putting on an impressive roster of

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  • Julien Imbert takes charge as Le Pont de la Tour’s new head chef

    Julien Imbert takes charge as Le Pont de la Tour’s new head chef

    Le Pont de la Tour is getting a new head chef - Julien Imbert who’s clocked up experience at some very famous London institutions, including Sketch, Dinner by Heston, Berners Tavern and most recently as Head Chef at Jason Atherton’s City Social.

    He'll also be bringing to the table two years of butchery experience and his Toulouse background, which translate to French classics with plenty of meat-heavy

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  • Gizzi Erskine brings healthy junk food to Tate Modern with Pure Filth

    Gizzi Erskine brings healthy junk food to Tate Modern with Pure Filth

    We're sure that if we were clever enough, we'd be able to give a fittingly bleak monologue about the inherent connection between modern art and junk food - but we're not, so instead we'll just say, hurrah! Burgers, muffins and more with a healthy-ish twist in the Tate Modern.

    It's part of the aptly named Tate x Pure Filth pop-up, which will see Gizzi Erskine joined by nutritionist Rosemary Ferguson to

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  • Masterchef losers Bill & Jack pop up with a summer supper club in Southbank

    Masterchef losers Bill & Jack pop up with a summer supper club in SouthbankThe self-dubbed “MasterChef losers 2016” Bill & Jack, who were finalists on the cooking reality TV show, are bringing their culinary skills to a one month pop-up in the Southbank Centre.

  • BBQ Club & Bar is Jimmy Garcia’s new South Bank project

    BBQ Club & Bar is Jimmy Garcia’s new South Bank project

    Sunshine and warmer weather means BBQ is increasingly back on the menu - particularly at Southbank’s new BBQ Club & Bar.

    It’s a Thamesside pop-up and supper club, set up by Jimmy Garcia (Jimmy’s Underground Pop-Up, DVine Cellars, Cornercopia) and will be spread across two floors. The walk up BBQ bar will remain below, while those who’re joining for the rooftop supper club will head

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  • Mondrian’s Rumpus Room to reopen on the 12th floor with a new look

    Mondrian’s The Rumpus Room to reopen with a new food and drinks menu

    It’s official - the Rumpus Room is reopening on the 31 March after a serious facelift.

    The Mondrian Hotel's restaurant, which overlooks the Thames from the comfort of the 12th floor, has been undergoing a period of lengthy refurbishment. Aside from a range of new playful touches to the interior - pink neon signs, ample indoor foliage, a hall of mirrors - the menu’s had a complete overhaul too.

    The new menu will be

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  • Brighton's The Coal Shed comes to London at One Tower Bridge

    Brighton's The Coal Shed comes to London at One Tower Bridge

    What: The Coal Shed

    In a nutshell: Fresh seafood, dry-aged steak and specials, plus sharing plates and Sunday roasts, all served Thameside.

    Summing it all up: After enjoying considerable success in its seaside home of Brighton, The Coal Shed is making its first foray to the capital where it'll be setting up shop in the new One Tower Bridge development with

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  • Tibits vegetarian restaurant is coming to Bankside

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    What: Tibits Bankside

    In a nutshell: Swiss vegetarian south of the river.

    Summing it all up: The original Tibits in Heddon Street has many a fan. This sees the Swiss restaurant open its second London restaurant in Bankside. Expect many salads as well as all vegan and vegetarian food. 

  • Allan Pickett brings traditional British food to Swan at Shakespeare’s Globes

    Allan Pickett brings traditional British food to Swan at Shakespeare’s Globes

    Allan Pickett is busy yet again. While his first solo venture Piquet, was warmly reviewed it is, alas, no more. But now he’s just been announced as the new executive chef at Swan, Shakespeare’s Globe.

    He’ll be bringing with him his specialism in French food, having trained

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  • Test Driving Caravan Bankside - their "well-travelled" menu goes south of the river

    pizzaFollowing on from the hugely popular Exmouth Market and Kings Cross venues, Caravan has opened a third restaurant, south of the river. We check it out. 

  • Caravan Bankside brings brunch and more to the south bank

    Caravan heads south to Bankside

    Already hugely popular in Exmouth Market and King's Cross, Caravan are making the leap across the river and are coming to Bankside this Autumn (that's just down the road from Hixter). 

    UIt'll be an all-day restaurant and, like the other restaurants, breakfast and brunch will play a big part of that. On that menu will be: 

    • Baked eggs with tomato pepper ragout, Greek yoghurt & Aleppo chilli
    • Jalapeno corn bread
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  • The New Tate Modern Switch House brings with it a new bar and restaurant for the South Bank

    Switch House bar and restaurant are launching at the new Tate

    Big changes are coming to Tate Modern next month as the big new 10 storey Switch House building is launched. The huge new building that's been attached to the main gallery also means they're bringing a brand new bar and restaurant to the South Bank. 

    First off, there's the Tate Modern Bar (Switch House, Level 1), then there's the Tate Modern Restaurant (Switch House, Level 9) - and there's a 10th-floor viewing

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