Joe Lutrario

4 days ago | restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario

The new scheme, Honest Insiders, will reward customers with a stamp each time they visit an Honest Burgers restaurant or the group’s recently opened fast-casual spin-off, Honest Smash + Grab. Customers who sign up to the app will receive complimentary onion rings or fries, plus additional rewards on their third and fifth visits. After collecting eight stamps, they’ll receive a free burger of their choice.

1 week ago | restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario

London’s Chinese restaurant market has seen huge changes over the past decade or so. Why? Anglo Cantonese restaurants are closing and being replaced by more authentic Chinese restaurants. It started slowly about 20 years ago. The first Chinese people that opened restaurants in London and the UK were from the south of the country, in particular Hong Kong.

1 week ago | restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario

What: A casual restaurant serving refined but unfussy versions of Caribbean staples like goat curry, jerk chicken, escovitch fish and fried plantain. Located near Ladbroke Grove tube and Portobello Road Market, Marvee’s Food Shop is inspired by its chef’s childhood and the ‘characterful, often chaotic’ Caribbean food shops scattered across London. Who: The chef in question is Dom Taylor, the star of Five Star Kitchen: Britain’s Next Great Chef, which was released on Channel 4 and Netflix in 2023.

1 week ago | restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario

Tell us about the moment you first became interested in wineI can’t remember the exact moment, but it would have been when I was living in Paris. I ended up waiting tables and learning about food and wine matching. Describe your wine list at Wine BarClassic, mixed with new trends. Over the course of your career, have you had any wine-related disasters? I once had too much gas from a Coravin causing the cork to explode out of a bottle of red wine. The wall and I were covered in red wine.

1 week ago | restaurantonline.co.uk | Joe Lutrario

Labombe by Trivet will have its own dedicated entrance on Old Park Lane and is billed as a wine-forward restaurant that is an evolution of the original Trivet’s bar, which is also called Labombe. Menu details are limited, but dishes will be designed around the grill with a small number of signatures borrowed from the pair’s two Michelin-starred London Bridge flagship, while the wine list will focus on an ‘essential’ by-the-glass selection.