Becky Zanker - The Glass Magazine

Three’s a charm – José Pizarro launches City restaurant

June 7, 2015

Each of José Pizarro’s restaurants has a distinct personality. For José, the bustling tapas bar on Bermondsey Street, it’s an informal one – people knock elbows as they scan chalk boards of always delicious, ...

A 10-course taste of Singapore

Becky Zanker

May 31, 2015

Dining, Feature

Gentrified street food is something to be approached with caution – it’s street food for a reason. Spice Market’s Peter Lloyd has done his research, though, having travelled Asia extensively, and his Singap...

Burgers for the discerning diner

Becky Zanker

May 25, 2015

Dining, Feature

Tommi’s is a burger-lovers burger joint, with two London locations from which it serves its succinct, American-retro menu: Marylebone and King’s Road. We visited the former on a Friday evening and, as one mig...

Comilona: An Argentine food festival opens in London

Becky Zanker

May 13, 2015

News

Comilona, a festival that celebrates the vibrant culinary scene of Argentina, is taking place in London this week. Some of the country’s most revered chefs have flown to the city to offer their celebrated cuisi...

Asia de Cuba: The Relaunch – Glass feasts on fusion food at the newly relaunched Asia de Cuba in Covent Garden’s St Martins Lane Hotel

Becky Zanker

May 13, 2015

Dining, Feature

Perhaps fusing the cuisines of Asia and Cuba seems a strange concept – the former so often focused on precision and delicacy, the latter an endeavour in vibrancy and dramatic taste. But, at Asia de C...

Glass previews Peugeot’s new state-of-the-art food truck

Becky Zanker

May 4, 2015

Culture, Dining, Feature

“Food, and products relating to food, are things we’ve been building since the business opened. It was a food business that started the Peugeot business.” said Design Lab head Cathal Loughnane whe...

Keeping good dining in the family

Becky Zanker

April 13, 2015

News

The husband and wife team behind The Jones Family Project wanted to cater to all occasions in one space – no mean feat – and they’ve achieved it. It’s the sort of place that you can visit by day without fee...

Well worth the hunt

Becky Zanker

March 2, 2015

Dining, Feature

The Stevedores Beer and Whiskey Bar, hidden on a quiet little lane near Cambridge Heath, east London, isn’t easy to find but, once you’re there, it’s worth it. The interior is bedecked in maritime paraphern...

Covert cocktails in Chinatown

Becky Zanker

February 17, 2015

Dining, Feature

A speakeasy within a speakeasy, Peony is a discreet, enchanting enclave hidden in the very depths of London’s Chinatown. It’s actually part of Opium – the stylish cocktail bar and dim sum restaurant on Gerr...

A speakeasy for the modern drinker

Becky Zanker

February 16, 2015

Dining, Feature

There is – seemingly – no secrecy in the very centre of Chinatown, in Soho, London. Restaurants display their menus, with bold, bright pictures, on huge entranceway panels, exotic vegetables are sliced to r...

Real fortitude

Becky Zanker

January 29, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

British actor Nicholas Pinnock has an impressively eclectic list of credits to his name. In the 1990s, he appeared in UK TV stalwarts Grange Hill, EastEnders, The Bill and Casualty, but he’s since starred i...

Making history

Becky Zanker

January 20, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

She might have been born in 1980s Kent, but Charity Wakefield has lived in numerous time periods. Most recently, she’s appeared as Mary Boleyn in Peter Kosminsky’s highly anticipated Wolf Hall – that’s...

Glass visits Chicken Shop’s new outpost in Holborn

Becky Zanker

December 15, 2014

Dining, Feature, London

Let’s go to the Chicken Shop – a phrase that until now was mostly reserved for the inebriated – has experienced somewhat of a renaissance of late. That’s because of the aptly named Chicken Shop, part of the...

A culinary performance at the National Theatre

Becky Zanker

December 1, 2014

Culture, Dining, Feature

A culinary performance at the National Theatre – Glass plays audience to an applause-worthy dining debut on the South Bank, London In recent months, the South Bank’s National Theatre has opened the curtains to...

Glass talks The Imitation Game, Middlemarch and Bond with British actor Matthew Beard

Becky Zanker

November 28, 2014

Culture, Feature

Cracking the code – Glass talks The Imitation Game, Middlemarch and Bond with burgeoning British talent Matthew Beard Being in the spotlight is nothing new to actor Matthew Beard appearing as he did in Lego...

Glass talks Comic-Con, on-set antics and secret aspirations with Defiance star Stephanie Leonidas

Becky Zanker

September 16, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

For London-born Stephanie Leonidas, performance runs in the family. She has three siblings, two of whom are also established actors, but she’s stepped out on her own – and all the way to Canada – ...

An altar to Chinese cuisine on Worship Street

Becky Zanker

August 18, 2014

Culture, Dining, Feature

It’s hard to believe that such a mountain of exquisite, authentic and surprising Chinese tastes could exist on east London’s unassuming Worship Street, but it does, and it’s extraordinary. HKK is...

The food of new America

Becky Zanker

July 7, 2014

Dining, Feature

The collection of tables between the Gramercy Tavern’s grand bar and its imposing entrance way are some of the most coveted in New York. It’s on East 20th street, amid a particularly beguiling sea of high...

Glass attends the opening of Alain Ducasse’s Rivea in London

Becky Zanker

June 9, 2014

Dining, Feature

The French and Italian Rivieras have proven a romantic escape from reality for urbanites for decades. At Rivea, Alain Ducasse’s newest culinary endeavour, an hour or two of that same, hazy escapism can be enj...

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