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Forbes
12 hours ago
- Lifestyle
- Forbes
6 Must-Visit London Restaurants This Month
Twenty8 Nomad London Some people get seasonal allergies. We, in the UK, seem to get seasonal appetites. Thankfully, with London shedding its raincoat and stepping into early summer, it's the perfect time to make plans that don't revolve around desk lunches and Deliveroo. New restaurants are launching, terrace pop-ups are fighting for your rosé-all-day loyalty, and if you time it right, you might even make the long stroll to a dessert stop without needing a coat. This month's line-up is quietly chaotic (I ate too much great food recently, what can I say). We've got a Michelin-starred chef in their Knightsbridge comeback, a Mediterranean terrace that wants to be your entire personality for the next two months, and a chocolate-cum-cookie shop in Kennington that's already halfway to cult status. For every must-visit spot listed below, my instructions are simple: plan now, go hungry, and thank me later. Tom Brown at The Capital Where: Knightsbridge Why now: The Cornerstone chef's back — this time, with a 12-course tasting menu set inside his prestigious former hotel home. What to expect: The £125 menu is full of clever, confident moves — mussel and beetroot 'charcuterie,' cuttlefish masquerading as ravioli, and a chocolate dessert laced with caviar, olive oil, and capers. Dishes are refined but never polite, taking all the risks Cornerstone didn't have the backing to take. Expect seriously sensational cooking. Vibe: Understated luxury, big flavours, no posturing. 108 Brasserie's Maison Mirabeau Terrace seafood platter Where: Marylebone Why now: The terrace has had a French Riviera makeover — and the rosé's flowing accordingly. What to expect: Fresh seafood, serious rosé, and just enough sunlight to pretend you're on the Côte d'Azur. Go for seabass crudo or burrata-stuffed crispy gnocchi if you're snacking; level up with the butterflied sea bass or a seafood platter if you're staying a while. Strawberries and cream are on standby for dessert, and the sensational rosé list includes Mirabeau's 'Pure,' 'La Réserve,' and sparkling 'La Folie.' Basically the perfect way to spend a day with friends. Vibe: Day drinking done chic. Twenty8 NoMad London Where: Covent Garden Why now: The team behind NoMad London has launched its most ambitious concept yet: an ultra-luxe bistro channelling old New York glam What to expect: Set in a reimagined Victorian palm court (designed by Martin Brudnizki, naturally), Twenty8 delivers on both phenomenal British produce and big-theatre flair. The menu leans hard into elevated comfort food — seafood towers, dry-aged Galician steak, that infamous foie-gras-stuffed chicken — while the martini list reads like a liquid history of New York's cocktail canon. Vibe: Big on Instagramability, bigger on flavour and service. Nine Lives taco Where: London Bridge Why now: A brilliant bar made better by bargain tacos and a terrace that's finally open again. What to expect: Every Tuesday chef Ramón Ramos serves £3 tacos inspired by those from his hometown of Guadalajara — best paired with £10 Champagne cocktails under the disco ball. Throughout the week, you can also expect a new experimental cocktail menu shaped by 2025 trend forecasts, a fresh outdoor space for spicy margs in the sun, and a custom hi-fi sound system that takes the 'listening bar' brief seriously. If you know, you know. Vibe: Underground in all the right ways. Estiatorio Milos' fish market Where: St James's Why now: Because sometimes only grilled octopus and a £50 sea bass will do. What to expect: Impeccably fresh seafood, flown in daily and displayed on ice like edible sculpture. Greek minimalism on the plate and in the room — think white linen, an unbelievably friendly and skilled staff, plus a dining crowd that looks like they summer in Hydra. Don't miss the paper-thin zucchini and aubergine tower, stacked high over saganaki cheese and finished tableside with wild thyme honey. Vibe: International money, Med-light diet, the best mineral wine mandatory. Chocolate Dino Company cookies Where: Kennington Why now: Because your inner child deserves it. What to expect: It started as a lockdown brownie delivery service and now turns out some of London's best cookies from a low-key Kennington spot. Thick, gooey, and properly indulgent, the cookies come in rotating flavours (red velvet and chocolate orange are personal faves), often still warm from the oven. There's coffee, brunch and bagels, too — but let's be honest, you're going for the cookies. Vibe: Neighbourhood gem you can order to your door. No notes.
Eater
2 days ago
- Business
- Eater
A New Italian Spot Hopes to Comfort Lincoln Park After The End of Tarantino's 30-Year-Run
Another Lincoln Park stalwart fell by the wayside when Tarantino's closed in March, ending three decades along Armitage Avenue. The neighborhood's restaurant scene has seen changes in recent times, and three decades seems to be a magic number. Pizza Capri closed its own 30-year run earlier this year when it moved to Avondale. Goose Island Beer Co. moved on from its original brewpub, relocating to the Salt Shed earlier in 2024 after a 35-year run on Clybourn. As Tarantino's wished farewell to its clientele, word spread that Cornerstone Restaurant Group planned to open a new project in the space. Cornerstone's Chicago-area restaurants include chef and partner Bill Kim's Urbanbelly, The Table at Crate, and Bill Kim's Ramen Bar inside Time Out Market Chicago. Cornerstone is also known for its partnership with Michael Jordan, running MJ's Mag Mile steakhouse, plus locations across the country and South Korea. In Lincoln Park, the company wants to retain Tarantino's customers and lure new ones with Dimmi Dimmi Corner Italian, pegged for a summer opening at 1112 W. Armitage Avenue. Executive chef Matt Eckfield worked with Kim, splitting about 13 years at Belly Shack (the chef's shuttered Puerto Rican and Korean restaurant in Bucktown) and Belly Q (the shuttered Korean barbecue-style spot in West Loop). Eckfield left Chicago for New York's Major Food Group, working as one of the conglomerate's executive chefs, spending nearly 12 years with its famous Italian American brands like Carbone, Contessa, and ZZ's Club. Eckfield is hopeful to make use of produce from Green City Market, the farmers market held weekly in the summer, just east of the restaurant and toward the lake. Eckfield wouldn't spill on menu specifics other than saying customers, including Tarantino's regulars, will recognize the food. Expect a mix of pastas made on premises and seasonal veggies. There will be sandwiches. Eckfield is excited to pump out some focaccia, saying that while most anyone can make the flatbread, few folks can bake focaccia that actually tastes good. 'There's not going to be tweezer work,' the chef says. Former Boka Restaurant Group pastry chef Casey Doody is handling dessert recipes with gelato, cakes, and more. So Lincoln Park is experiencing a renaissance. Dimmi Dimmi, which means 'tell me, tell me,' in Italian, should open in late July or early August. Another notable nearby opening comes near the busy Halsted and Clybourn intersection, where a group of experienced restaurant veterans is working on Brick & Mortar inside the former Golden Ox and Burger Bar space. Dimmi Dimmi Corner Italian , 1112 W. Armitage Avenue, planned for a late July or early August opening Sign up for our newsletter.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Kinky Romance ‘Pillion' Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Harry Melling Sells to Multiple Territories
Cornerstone has closed a slew of new territorial deals for Harry Lighton's Cannes official selection Pillion after the film sold to A24 for the U.S. market. The kinky romancer that launched at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section has been sold to Weltkino (Germany, Austria), iWonder (Italy), Praasens (Switzerland), MCF (the territory formerly known as Yugoslavia), Gutek (Poland), Lusomondo (Portugal), New Cinema (Israel) and Diamond for Latin America. More from The Hollywood Reporter BBC Studios Acquires Unscripted Production Company Mothership TV 'The Real Housewives of London,' NBCU Reality Streamer Hayu's First Original, Unveils Cast Andrew Tate and Brother Tristan Charged With 21 U.K. Crimes, Including Rape and Human Trafficking Described as a 'funny, filthy romance,' Pillion sees Skarsgard play Ray, an 'impossibly handsome leader of a bike gang' who takes on Colin (Melling), a weedy wallflower, to be his new submissive. Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life and introduces him to a community of kinky, queer bikers. But as Colin dives deeper into Ray's world, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is really for him. Lighton, who makes his feature directorial debut with the film, won the Un Certain Regard Award for best screenplay in Cannes. After the festival's market, Cornerstone also sold Pillion to Transformers (Japan), Challan (South Korea) and Swallow Wings (Taiwan). Besides the A24 deal for the U.S., Picturehouse will release Pillion in the U.K. and September Film will handle the Benelux release. Lighton, BAFTA-nominated for his 2017 short Wren Boys, directed Pillion from his own script which is loosely inspired by Adam Mars-Jones' 2019 novel Box Hill. Element Pictures, a Fremantle company, produced Pillion with financing from BBC Film and the BFI in association with Fremantle, Picturehouse and September Film. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Cornerstone and Salesforce Partner, Announce Plan to Deliver AI-driven Workforce Actions to Enterprises
Cornerstone's AI-powered workforce agent actions will help to scale and upskill agents for compliance, risk mitigation, and efficiency SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 28, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a leader in workforce agility solutions, today announced a partnership with Salesforce to bring Cornerstone agent actions to Agentforce. The agent actions will align Salesforce's Agentforce, the digital labor platform, for augmenting teams with trusted autonomous AI agents in the flow of work, with Cornerstone's AI-powered workforce capabilities. The agent actions will be available on The agent action will connect Cornerstone Galaxy AI, a proprietary AI technology powering the entire Cornerstone Galaxy workforce agility platform, strengthening how AI agents operate within and across platforms, including: Connection that supports employee productivity across Salesforce systems, including key integrations within Slack. Compliance across agents to ensure proper training, testing, and certifying of AI agents before they interact with critical business systems or sensitive data. Monitoring agent actions and providing real-time compliance guardrails, while always maintaining human oversight of agentic behavior. "Cornerstone will nurture AI agents into the living system that is an organization—building readiness in the same way we build individual and team readiness through context, training, trust, and continuous feedback," said Himanshu Palsule, CEO of Cornerstone. "A major barrier for wider spread adoption has been limiting AI agent deployments to low-risk tasks due to compliance concerns. This partnership, bridging agent-to-agent collaboration allows us to significantly scale agent effectiveness, expanding where and how these agents can be deployed." "We're excited to pair Agentforce with Cornerstone, the industry's leading skills and training platform, to ensure agents can support real workforce needs—from developing job-specific skills to meeting compliance requirements," said Tyler Carlson, SVP of Business Development at Salesforce. "Cornerstone is building the next generation of learning, performance, and productivity right inside the tools they use every day, like Slack and Salesforce." About Cornerstone Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI platform for workforce agility, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 140 million users in 186 countries use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today. View source version on Contacts Media Contact Media@
Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Cornerstone Announces Partnerships Alongside Suite of Agentic Product Innovation
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a leader in workforce agility solutions, today at Cornerstone Spark Las Vegas announced strategic collaborations with Microsoft and Salesforce, a series of product innovations, and laid the path for organizations to upskill, reskill and plan their human and agentic workforces for the future of work with a groundbreaking system of agents strategy. 'Today's business reality: AI is replacing tasks, interactions, and decisions at a speed previously unmatched,' said Himanshu Palsule, Chief Executive Officer at Cornerstone. 'The old way of operating and workforce planning is no longer going to work in this reality. Organizations need to reshape processes and how we approach work for the future or be left behind. These partnerships and product innovations will set up our customers to not only plan for the reality of tomorrow, but to see even deeper into competitive and market intelligence for talent strategies and workforce readiness, to truly be one step ahead.' Announced today, Cornerstone has a partnership with Salesforce to bring Cornerstone agent actions to Agentforce. The agent actions will align Salesforce's Agentforce, the digital labor platform, for augmenting teams with trusted autonomous AI agents in the flow of work, with Cornerstone's AI-powered workforce capabilities. As featured at Microsoft Build last week and at Cornerstone Spark, Cornerstone is building AI agents to bring the value and utility of Cornerstone's market-leading workforce agility solutions into the flow of work, making them accessible within Microsoft's suite of enterprise productivity and collaboration tools, like Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365. Continuing its commitment to a unified and thriving partner ecosystem, launching this summer, the new Cornerstone Extend Marketplace will offer a centralized hub to discover and explore both technology and services partner solutions that extend the power of Cornerstone. Built to meet growing demand for plug-and-play integrations and a unified partner ecosystem, the Extend Marketplace streamlines solution discovery for customers while giving partners a stronger platform to drive visibility and adoption. Additional innovations launched at Cornerstone Spark Las Vegas, including: Cornerstone Transform: Workforce Intelligence and Cornerstone Skill Exchange – Following its launch in April, Cornerstone Transform is continuing its evolution to help organizations gain better visibility into the skills of their people and design the workforce of the future. Built on SkyHive's dynamic labor market data, innovations in Workforce Intelligence coming in Q3 2025 will help organizations take an inside-outside look at their teams and benchmark them against the market and offer competitive intelligence. Additionally, rolling out starting in July 2025, Cornerstone Transform will help organizations drive consistent skilling experiences across talent ecosystems with Cornerstone Skill Exchange, a control center for the automation of skills mapping and serve as a translation layer for skills data. Expanded Cornerstone Galaxy AI and Immerse capabilities – In July, Cornerstone will introduce a host of new AI capabilities in Cornerstone Galaxy powered by Cornerstone Galaxy AI. These include an intelligent in-platform assistant that empowers administrators with AI capabilities for content curation, compliance monitoring, report generation, and more. Additionally, Cornerstone Immerse Companion, immersive technology that enables learners to roleplay with AI mentors and coaches, will expand to additional modalities, including browser, audio-only, and mobile versions, to broaden access and enable new use cases for the technology. This milestone release represents the first phase of Cornerstone's vision to extend AI-driven efficiency across the entire organization with personalized, on-demand assistance that transforms how enterprises develop and mobilize talent. Innovation supporting the changing frontline workforce and mobile needs – Launching in July, the reimagined Cornerstone Galaxy Mobile App scales learning and workforce readiness, giving frontline and deskless workers smarter, faster access to training, compliance, upskilling, and career mobility – anytime, anywhere. With offline access, personalized learning, and enterprise-grade security, the app empowers organizations to keep on-the-go teams aligned, compliant, productive, and ready to grow. 'Cornerstone's partnerships and AI product innovations announced today mark a pivotal step forward—not just for new buyers, but for existing customers ready to modernize,' said Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer, Sapient Insights Group. 'Combined with the bundles, they're making it far easier to grasp the full value of the Cornerstone environment in a unified way. For current customers, this is more than a packaging shift—it's a gateway to the next generation of futureproofing for human and AI hybrid workforces.' For more information, check out: About Cornerstone Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI platform for workforce agility, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 140 million users in 186 countries use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.
