Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Golden Age of Restaurants for London?

Here's a link to a lil diddy I wrote for Londonist about a recent report about a boom in new restaurants in London.

A Golden Age of Restaurants?
by Chris Osburn
Londonist
August 15, 2007

London is experiencing a
restaurant boom. Over the past year, 158 new outlets compared to 89 closures were recorded by Harden's for its upcoming 2008 London Restaurants guide. That’s 16 new restaurants more than the former record set in 2005, opening at an annual rate of three times what it was in the early Nineties. Harden’s co-editor, Peter Harden, is so enthused by the increase he’s dubbed this point in time a “golden age for the London restaurant-goer with the restaurant scene reaching a stage which would once have seemed inconceivable.” A walk down any High Street confirms Harden’s findings.

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