Colonel Saab, London’s luxury Indian dining concept Think a fusion of historical India, vintage, family with sublime Indian cuisine served up with a smile in an authentic setting and created as a love letter to his family. Indian Etiquette When a gentleman (@gentlemansbutler) takes a south Asian lady out to dinner @sarasordillo we better make sure the food is good and the setting up to her standards!!! Roop Partap Choudhary created Colonel Saab as a “love letter” to his family and India. And in the past year it has been named the UK’s Best Asian Restaurant at the…
Luxury London Restaurants & Sunday Lunch
Think classy or sometimes boutique and cosy. Service and the overall experience is super important.
The Petersham Restaurant, Richmond offers a slice of calm & seclusion and is one of my great culinary finds of 2018, so much so that I have been back twice in the last 2 months. It offers you a highly civilised space to enjoy food with friends, with fantastic views over The River Thames. The Petersham Restaurant The Petersham Hotel Nightingale Lane, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6UZ www.petershamhotel.co.uk/restaurant As you walk up Richmond Hill from the town centre you are entering a slice of period London with majestic views over The River Thames and Petersham Meadows a landscape made famous, by…
Wop-pob-a-loo-bop Pizza … That’s Crazy Pizza’s luxury lunchtime extravaganza. Pizza is probably the world’s most popular food. It’s certainly one of the most enduring. First mentions date from the Stone Age, though it wasn’t until the late 18th century that pizza as we know it appeared…in Naples. Baked as a flatbread with a scarce topping, it was eaten fresh and warm by working people such as porters, soldiers and sailors who wanted cheap and quick food. The first pizza restaurant opened in Naples in 1831. It is still there. The rest, as the say, is history; which brings us right…
The Connaught Grill welcomed two old friends for a conversation. An old friend and I reunited for dinner. We originally met at Heathrow Airport at four in the morning, travelling out to Egypt, where we were about to have two weeks of filming, from which we have lived off these stories ever since. A proper dinner at one of London’s top hotels is a perfect way to escape the hustle and bustle, let go, enjoy good conversation over a refined dinner. We met as we always tend to do with a quip as I was talking with the charming lady…
35 New Cavendish, relaxed luxury Marylebone restaurant is a perfect watering hole, still very much in central London but with a relaxed feel and the quality of their ingredients really is impressive. Having finished my meetings at The Lanesborough Hotel I walked up through Hyde Park one beautiful summers day to arrive at 35 New Cavendish for an evenings reservation. My first impressions said high end gastro with a relaxed environment and a high end clientele. Head chef, Douglas Santi, spearheads 35 New Cavendish. You get the idea when you hear specialities include 100 layer lasagne born out of his grandmother’s…
Palm Court Restaurant, Glamour at The Langham London Recently relaunched I had a wonderful evening at the Palm Court, a perfect setting for a luxurious evening in their sumptuous luxury restaurant which reminds me of the golden era of Hollywood, plenty of crushed silk cushions and comfort, with a sounds of swing and jazz played live. The Langham London 1c Portland Place, Regent Street London W1B 1JA 44 (0) 20 7965 0165 www.london.langhamhotels.co.uk www.palm-court.co.uk As with Legends, Grand Dame establishments evolve over time. After centuries of entertaining the great and good of society, the Palm Court has revealed its new…
Admiral Codrington, a luxurious Chelsea Gastropub Day 17 of Gentlemans Butler 21 days of luxury presents features a wonderful gastro pub in Chelsea, a perfect venue to have a long lunch with some friends. The Christmas holidays give the chance to catch up with old friends. Recently Gentlemans Butler took the opportunity to have a Christmas lunch, which I did with an old friend of mine from school. We both live in south west London so met at Peter Jones and then a quick walk up Draycott Avenue arrived at The Admiral Codrington which is tucked away along a quiet…
Rabbiting on – Rabbit Restaurant, Kings Road, London Rabbit 172, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4UP Rabbit is the latest eaterie to grace the once uniquely, quirky and boutique area of Chelsea. And, according to our charming and attentive waitress, it’s very much a family-run business. The headquarters are based at the Gladwin’s vineyard in Nutbourne, West Sussex, where Ma and Pa Gladwin make the wine and son, Gregory, farms and forages. Meanwhile back in London a second son, Oliver, is the chef while a third, Richard, runs the restaurant (the latest in their repertoire, the first being The Shed…