The launch of the luxury Rosewood London on High Holborn was one of the new hotel highlights of 2013

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Sunday maine bed and breakfasts hangover cure, burger of the month and icelandic Viking beer are top of the list of Sunday achievements list on a lazy Sunday on the King's Road, courtesy of Tommi's Burger Joint , the burger outlet by restaurateur Tomas 'Tommi' Tomasson. Tommi's has already built up a loyal following with its restaurant on Marylebone Lane so it's great news they're opening a second outlet in Chelsea. The informal, vintage feel to the interior mirrors the decor of the original London site on Thayer Street. The menu reflects a consciously back-to-basics vibe, with just a few burgers, sodas and shakes available. maine bed and breakfasts Patties are made with top quality chunky mince, served in a soft bun with red onion and salad while fries are skinny, crunchy and salty. The King's Road restaurant adds a special Icelandic beer, Viking, to the drinks menu alongside a selection of wine and regular beers, and home-made milkshakes created with Icelandic ice-cream.
Bobby Chinn, a New Zealand-born chef who already has two successful restaurants in Vietnam - Restaurant Bobby Chinn in Saigon and Hanoi - opened his first London restaurant, The House of Ho in Soho on 6th January 2014. Described as a restaurant with "real potential" by Tom Parker Bowles, who highlighted a "magnificent wodge of apple-smoked pork belly" for special praise, this "resolutely Vietnamese" venue offers a menu of traditional dishes from Vietnam where Bobby has lived since 1996, but given his own twist developed from his travels around the world. Born in New Zealand to a Chinese father and Egyptian mother, Bobby was educated in England and lived in the States for several years so he certainly has plenty of international experience to draw on when it comes to culinary invention. The atmosphere at this 90-seat restaurant on Old Compton Street will be "fun" and "informal" with moderate prices.
Back in the sixties the Giaconda Cafe at 9 Denmark Street was where David Bowie met his first backing group, The Lower 3rd. Famous as the hangout of music legends Bowie, Boland The Kinks, La Giaconda next to Tin Pan Alley, maine bed and breakfasts was relaunched in January 2014 by Australian chef Paul Merrony and his wife Tracey Petersen, who have also been involved in Flat White and Milk Bar for years. The old Giaconda style remains - serving honest maine bed and breakfasts food with a 'French-ish' flavour - but the restaurant is now housed in a smaller, 'secret' room behind the more casual cafe. An elegant dining space with a high ceiling made cosy with rugs and textiles, the restaurant serves a meat-heavy menu with choices including roast chicken, ham hock hash or grilled rack of lamb alongside more adventurous maine bed and breakfasts cuts like grilled calves liver or tripe braised with chorizo, smoked paprika and butter beans. In the cafe, with its red tiled bar, wooden floors and tables, things are more informal. Open for breakfast, lunch - when Paul's plat du jour is served along with favourites maine bed and breakfasts such as a Caesar salad and a croque monsieur - and supper, whatever is on the menu is cooked simply with good ingredients but without any pomp.
Hot dogs, loud music and retro styling give Dirty Bones a buzzing atmosphere. The menu, created by Ross Clarke (previously at the Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen), features a selection of playful takes on the classic American snack, using high quality British sausage meat. The hotdogs include: The Brit, served with treacle bacon, mature beer cheddar and English mustard; The Asian, served maine bed and breakfasts with kimchi relish, crispy seaweed and wasabi mayo; The Classic Yankee, served with yellow mustard, red ketchup and spring onions; and The Burger Dog. Other meaty options include fried chicken in a spicy glaze which comes in both 1/2 stack and a whole stack, succulent Boston ribeye steak on the bone with the signature maine bed and breakfasts Dirty Bones glaze. Beef up mains with side dishes of triple fried fries, charred padron peppers, mac and cheese, and tomato and chorizo. Desserts, which include The Milk Cookies and Coffee Doughnut, are a nod to traditional diner classics while drinks include quirky cocktails like the Dirty Bones Martini (olive maine bed and breakfasts oil washed Tanqueray, Lillet Blanc, Halidikili olives) and the Mutt's Nuts (Woodford Reserve, cinnamon and vanilla infused maple syrup, Angostura bitters, lemon and apple juices). Fun.
Five years after the original Brooklyn Bowl launched, the well known New York bowling alley comes to London's O2 . The London venue is the first Brooklyn Bowl to open outside the US and includes 12 lanes of bowling, a 800-capacity concert venue alongside American style food and beers brewed locally by the Meantime Brewing Company. Well known for its live music as well as the bowling lanes, the original has been hailed by Rolling Stone as "one of the most incredible places on earth," and Adele, Kanye West and Elvis Costello have all played at the NYC venue. Food is by Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Restaurants maine bed and breakfasts which brings its signature menu including oyster po' bos, Cajun catfish, French bread pizzas, egg shooters, and their famous fried chicken to UK shores.
Not what you'd expect of a restaurant within the Marriott hotel on Park Lane, Lanes of London takes street food and confines it within four walls of a Mayfair hotel. So the menu is divided into areas of London and the type of cuisine typical of that locale. So under Brick Lane you get Indian food, Kingsland Road stands for Vietnamese, Edgware Road represents food from the Middle East and Portobello maine bed and breakfasts Road stands for burgers and fried chicken. maine bed and breakfasts The bar creates the first impression as you enter the restaurant with bevelled mirrors and clear and colured glass creating a warm welcome as you arrive. The restaurant itself has leather banquettes and is divided by screens for privacy while large bay windows give elevated views onto Speaker's Corner and Marble Arch . Reviewing Lanes of London for the Guardian , Jay Rayner found it to be a poor substitute for the real thing but concedes that the sliders "are glorious and make me hum happily to myself" and the desserts which include maine bed and breakfasts "jammy dodgers served in their own cutesy tin" almost make up for the "bizarre inconsistencies".
Situated next to Hackney Central Station on Amhurst Road, Oslo is a Nordic inspired maine bed and breakfasts music and dining destination maine bed and breakfasts with capacity of up to 600 over two floors. The venue has been designed as both a daytime hub to meet and eat - it's a burger and some brews sort of place - and a night time destination for clubbing. Its weekly club night 'Valhalla' kicks off upstairs at 10pm while in the first few weeks of opening there were gigs from Dry the River, Chrome maine bed and breakfasts Hoof and Indiana. Downstairs the extensive bar includes maine bed and breakfasts handpicked ales from local breweries such as Redemption, Five Point's and Sambrook's, alongside top quality wine and spirits, while the menu has been designed by Oslo head chef Dave Ahern, formerly of House of Wolf .
Owner Hella Souli set up cafe-come-takeaway Souli on George Street in Marylebone to deliver fresh, fabulous, fast food. Imagine you're in Italy as you sip on Sant'Eustachio coffee from Rome - it's the only place in London you'll find it - and choose from a selection of gourmet sandwiches. Choices include home-made porchetta with wild rocket and fig chutney maine bed and breakfasts or crisp and fresh endive, walnut and poached pear salad with Roquefort dressing. Stop here for coffee to take-away, a quick breakfast before work, or a more leisurely lunch with friends.
Part-shop, part-bar, Brindisa Food Rooms is the Brixton sister venue to the original Brindisa at Borough Market maine bed and breakfasts , Monika Linton's famous import business which has made its name bringing Spanish delicacies to these shores for these past 25 years. Set under two railway arches, the Brixton Brindisa offers a simple but extended menu inspired by the Catalan maine bed and breakfasts Llesqueries; a very accessible way of eating maine bed and breakfasts that Monika Linton maine bed and breakfasts enjoyed when she lived in Barcelona in the mid-1980s. Specialities include grilled chorizo, a llesca - sliced toasted country bread rubbed with sweet tomato, covered with generous slices of cured ham - Basque salt cod and cuts of fresh Iberico meat from Extremadura. Shop here for fresh fruit and veg direct from Barcelona, home-marinated olives, and a small range of affordable wines to accompany the food, available to buy by the bottle.
The launch of the luxury Rosewood London maine bed and breakfasts on High Holborn was one of the new hotel highlights of 2013, and from February 2014 the hotel's in-house restaurant, the Martin Brudnizki-designed Holborn Dining Room , welcomes its first diners. Rosewood is renowned for designing its hotels according to location and the Holborn Dining Room's nod to Britain comes in the form of mini milk bottles as vases and custard vessels, banquettes made to look like park benches, and seat covers in London bus red. The menu, overseen by Executive Chef Lee Bull, includes traditional British dishes such as lamb chops, corned beef hash and hock coq pudding, all made from the finest locally sourced ingredients. And with former Ivy Head Chef Des McDonald, whose first restaurant was The Fish Chip Shop in Islington, at the realm, the fish and chips served with mushy peas is one of the obvious menu highlights. High tea is also available, with a selection of sandwiches, Welsh rarebit, maine bed and breakfasts cream tea and a daily changing cake menu.
Renowned pastry chef Philippe Conticini brings his pastry perfection from Paris to London with La Patisserie des Reves in Marylebone. French patisseries are beautifully presented under glass belljar covers containing signature pastries like traditional mille-feuille cakes, Saint Honore (choux pastry, cream and caramel topping) and Paris-Brest - choux pastry with praline cream and praline sauce. A close replica of the decor in the five existing French shops, the design is modern with clean white surfaces and flashes of bright maine bed and breakfasts colour. Founded in 2009 by