The Editors’ review of Bilbao Berria This Basque-style tapas joint is a welcome break from the usually grimly impersonal restaurants around Haymarket.   Grace Dent falls in love with Georgian food at Marani ‘I don’t even like mascarpone that much, or mille feuille, but this is making me quite… emotional’.   Vienna waltzes into Marylebone, […]

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The Editors’ review of The New Angel Celestial choirs break out for us as John Burton-Race returns to the London dining scene.   Zoe Williams wants to buy the Holborn Dining Room kitchen a timer Everything the Telegraph reviewer eats is overcooked, from lobster to liver.   Ash Mair finally opens Bilbao Berria The MasterChef […]

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Australian chef Ash Mair (winner of 2011 MasterChef Professionals) has finally opened his long-awaited tapas restaurant in (Lower) Regent Street. The Basque-inspired Bilbao Berria is a genuine Spanish export, an offshoot of a chain with two sites already in Bilbao, two in Barcelona and one in Ibiza. This is the chain’s first international outpost and will be […]

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