Hilary Armstrong

East London

Restaurant Writer at Freelance

Restaurants Editor at The Glossary Magazine

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Articles

Where To Play In 2025

5 days ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Sport Padel, invented by businessman Enrique Corcuera at his holiday home in Acapulco in 1969, is the fastest growing sport in the world. Upwards of 30 million people play worldwide and the sport is on track to enter the Olympics for Brisbane 2032. Padel is a racket sport, best considered as a hybrid of squash and tennis, played on an enclosed rectangular court, roughly three quarters the size of a tennis court that’s split into two halves with a net across the middle. It’s played in pairs,...
Shoreditch's New Hot Spot

1 week ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Let’s hope Patrick Powell likes crumbing schnitzel, because he’s going to be doing a lot of it at One Club Row.
Where To Book This Spring

2 months ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

New Openings The Lavery has all the makings of being one of the great new restaurants in London for 2025. Time will tell if it lives up to its promise, which starts with the beautiful bones of the building, a Georgian townhouse in South Kensington, that was once the home and studio of Anglo-Irish painter Sir John Lavery. The operation (which includes more than a dozen flexible events spaces) is led by an ‘A’ team comprising creative director Martin Cohen (Odeon, New York; L’Escargot London);...
Turkish Delight In The City

2 months ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

For a scary moment there, it looked as if it might be London’s loss and Amsterdam’s gain when chef Selin Kiazim decided to set up permanent home in the perennially cool Dutch city. But those clever folk at hotel and restaurant collective Ennismore had other ideas. The result is Leydi, a modern Turkish restaurant in collaboration with Kiazim on the ground floor of the historic Spiers and Pond hotel, now the Hyde London City, opposite the Old Bailey.
Mexican Flavour Comes To Mayfair

2 months ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Mexican chef Santiago Lastra’s latest London restaurant takes its name from the traditional family-run eateries that Lastra grew up eating in. Never having been to Mexico myself (I must correct that!) I can’t pretend I know precisely what a fonda looks like. I turn to Google Images for reference.
How London’s Most Innovative Chefs Are Reinventing the Classic Baba au Rhum

2 months ago | robbreport.com | Hilary Armstrong

Fill in the blank: Baba au…? If the only word that springs to mind is “rhum,” then you clearly haven’t dined out in England’s capital lately. At Da Terra in East London, chef Rafael Cagali finishes his signature baba with a tot of aged cachaça from his native Brazil. Further west, Valentin Jollivet—executive pastry chef at Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester—made waves at a special dinner when he broke with house style and spiked his version with the Japanese spirit shochu.
Jason Atherton's Brasserie In SW1

2 months ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

How fitting that Jason Atherton should choose the year of the Oasis reunion announcement to launch Sael, his modern British brasserie with “the energy and swagger of the Cool Britannia era”. Atherton knows a thing or two about Cool Britannia.
New Italian Restaurant Mayfair

Mar 5, 2025 | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

You have to admire restaurateur Samyukta Nair. Not content with having a Japanese restaurant, a Thai restaurant, several Indian restaurants and a Chinese restaurant – isn’t it hotels you’re meant to build in Mayfair not restaurants? – she’s now turned her attention to Italian with Nipotina. What took her so long? Italian is the de facto local cuisine in Mayfair, or so you’d think, going by the glut of glossy ristoranti that line its leafy streets.
Selin Kiazim Shares Her 9 Favourite Restaurants In Amsterdam

Feb 6, 2025 | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

“In the past four or five years, Amsterdam has really got the wind in its sails and some great restaurants have opened up,” says Selin Kiazim. “It reminds me of when I opened Oklava in 2015 and there were people from different food cultures opening up their own places in a more modern setting. It feels really exciting to be a part of that now here in Amsterdam.” After four years in Amsterdam, Selin knows the city well. These are her tried and tested favourite restaurants, bars and bakeries.
Red wine and oysters? The radical food and drink pairings that actually work

Nov 6, 2024 | msn.com | Hilary Armstrong

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