St James

  • Test Driving Arlington - Le Caprice is back in a new guise and hotter than ever

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    Jeremy King's return to the London restaurant scene sees him reviving what was Le Caprice as Arlington. We went down to try London's hottest restaurant.  

  • Jeremy King is reopening Le Caprice as Arlington

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    Updated 28/2/24 with the opening date

    Jeremy King is about to have a very busy 2024. The well-known restaurateur who opened The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Brasserie Zedel is opening three restaurants this year and the first of them is something of a remake - as he's taken over the old Le Caprice site in St James. He can't actually call it by its previous name (after all, Caring may be bringing Le Caprice back),

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  • The best restaurants and bars in St James

    The best places to eat and drink in and around St James

    More exclusive than Mayfair and with more history packed into its streets than almost any other part of London, St James is one of London’s hidden gems worth exploring. From historic shops to its mix of modern and classic restaurants and bars, here’s our pick of the best places to check out.

  • Fowl sees the Fallow team launching a pop up chicken shop

    Fowl sees the Fallow team launching a chicken shop

    We've heard murmurings of something new coming from Fallow but while we wait to hear about that, they've a new offshoot that's almost next door to their St James restaurant.

    Inside St James's Market, they've taken over what was The Beau Brummell, a relatively short-lived pub from Cubitt House. The pop up is called Fowl, and is promising to be a "chicken shop like no other" and in keeping with their

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  • Test Driving the new Fallow breakfast - starting the day like royalty

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    From viral pastries to sustainable takes on avo on toast, the new Fallow breakfast is worth seeking out.

  • House of Ming Chinese restaurant comes to London via New Delhi

    House of Ming Chinese restaurant comes to London via New Delhi

    House of Ming is a Chinese restaurant that's big in New Delhi - and now it's opening in London. Like its Indian sibling, the restaurant is opening in a Taj Hotel, The St James's Court (you'll find that in Westminster). 

    With a focus on Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine, it looks like being a luxury affair with a menu that includes:

    • Prawn truffle siu
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  • The Southern-style Americana comes to Haymarket

    The Southern-style Americana comes to Haymarket

    Southern food is making a return to central London - in a somewhat unexpected guise. Americana launched a couple of weeks back, taking over a big ex-Byron site and seems a pretty large restaurant to open with little fanfare. 

    It's billed as serving "Authentic Southern American soul food and hospitality" and, in fairness, we'd say it's squarely aimed at the tourist crowd. As for the room

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  • Fortnum & Mason unveils a new food and drink studio, transforming its third floor

    Fortnum & Mason unveils a new food and drink studio, transforming its third floor

    Fortnum & Mason: home of extravagant wicker hampers, a famous food hall, a signature Eau de Nil shade of blue-green and now…a brand new food and drink studio.

    Taking over the third floor of the historic flagship department store in Piccadilly, the purpose-built interactive space will feature a production kitchen where over 100 of Fortnum’s chefs will

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  • Riviera, a new Southern France restaurant, is opening in St James

    Riviera, a new Southern France restaurant, is opening in St James

    Craving Saint-Tropez, Cannes, Nice and Antibes? If you feel the need for some Côte d'Azur dining, a new restaurant called Riviera is opening in St James’s Street. It's aiming for luxurious South-of-France vibes alongside high-end dining, something that is somewhat similar in concept to the recently opened Socca.

    It’s on the former site of Sake no Hana, the fine-dining

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  • Bardo

    High-end Italian in St James

  • Indonesian restaurant Toba opens in St James’s Market

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    If you’ve been lamenting the lack of Indonesian cuisine in London, today is your lucky day. Toba is now open with a soft launch in St James’s Market. If your favourite Indonesian cuisine in London is the Camden street-food stall Pino’s Warung, well, you’ll be extra pleased because Toba is its sister restaurant.

    We first alerted you

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

    Gouqi is former Hakkasan chef Tong Chee Hwee solo restaurant in 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

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    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

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    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

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    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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