FOOD & BOOZE NEWS
LARDER OF LONDON REOPENS
For a foodie city, one thing London is shamefully short of is quality food markets. Anyone who’s had enough of fighting their way through the Borough Market hoards can now instead fight their way through the West End hoards each Saturday at the newly-launched Foodlovers Market in Soho, once reputed as the “larder of London”. Running weekly, the market has around 30 stalls from specially-selected producers. Every Saturday, 9am-4pm, Rupert St, W1.
www.foodloversbritain.com
SURF & TURF IN CLERKENWELL
There’s another place to add to Clerkenwell’s ever-lengthening roster of restaurants. Redhook, by the group behind Soho’s fashionable (sort of) members’ gaff Milk & Honey, is in a former drill hall on Turnmill Street – think exposed brickwork, vintage furniture etc – and specialises in steak and seafood. As well as Canadian lobsters, New York striploin and Aussie wagyu, you can enjoy oysters and cocktails at the bar.
89 Turnmill St, EC1M 5QU.
www.redhooklondon.com
STEAK BECOMING LESS AND LESS RARE
Talking of steak, two of London’s finest purveyors of all things bloody and beefy are expanding. Goodman, the Russian-by-way-of-New York chain which opened in Mayfair last year, is opening a second London site in the heart of the City – on Jewry Street – later in the summer. Meanwhile the renowned Hawksmoor in Spitalfields – source of the best burgers in London – will be opening its second venue in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in October. Watch this space for more details.
www.goodmanrestaurants.com; www.thehawksmoor.co.uk