Highly rated Bath restaurant the Olive Tree has reduced its prices to attract more covers, as hospitality venues grapple with continuing tight market conditions. Executive head chef Chris Cleghorn’s new à la carte menu offers a choice of two dishes at each of its three courses for £95, with snacks, bread and sweet treats thrown […]
Birmingham-based chef Aktar Islam, whose stellar flagship Opheem has taken Indian cuisine to new heights in recent years, opens his first London venue today (May 1) – with another restaurant following later this month in Bristol. Oudh 1722, his London debut, has taken over the former site of Lupins in a listed Victorian building on the […]
Longstanding Brighton restaurant Gingerman heads a list of notable restaurants around the country that have announced their closure this week – most of them citing financial headwinds for the decision. The other venues which have called time include rooftop restaurant Climat in Manchester, ultra-local Chapters in Hay-on-Wye, fried chicken specialist Mollis in Nottingham and 104 in […]
A successful London supper club is to open its first permanent venue next week with the May 6 launch of All Roads in Brixton. Chefs Malika Green and Paschelle Brown have tested All Roads in a series of sold-out evenings over the past three years, assembling a distinctive menu which draws on their Caribbean heritage and British, European and […]
A restaurant which mixes fast-food classics with high-end luxury ingredients opened this week within the Lowndes hotel in Belgravia. Billed as a ‘Bistrot Américain’, Avi is from the team behind The Prince Arthur nearby, a traditional pub now serving upmarket Basque seafood. Chef Joshua Conte, a former soldier who has worked at Heston Blumenthal’s pub […]
Aktar Islam started cooking the age of 13 at his father’s restaurant in Birmingham, and his widely acclaimed flagship Opheem is the highest-ranked Indian venue in the Harden’s 100 list. We caught up with him ahead of his London debut with Oudh 1722, which launches on 1st May next door to Borough Market. Hardens: Aktar, […]
Restaurants are finding clever ways to reposition circularity in ways that speak to luxury and opulence rather than deprivation and compromise, reducing food waste while adding to the overall guest experience. In this article from The Sustainable Restaurant Association, Alex Francis shares how his team at De Vie bar, Paris, constructs the right narrative to convey this. At Nén Danang, Vietnam, chef Summer Le (pictured) places some “chef’s bites” on the pass, ready to […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 26th April 2026 The Guardian Impala, Soho Grace Dent was left “punch-drunk with memories” after a meal at this new venue from the all-conquering Super 8 group, where chef Meedu Saad has conjured up a “hazy blend of styles, […]
Restaurants the length and breadth of Britain raised £1.17 million last winter to help tackle homelessness through inviting diners to add a voluntary £1 per table to their bill. With rough sleeping reaching its highest recorded level – 4,793 people were recorded sleeping rough on a single night in 2025 – more than 650 restaurants joined the […]
Nottingham chef-entrepreneur Nichola Thompson is opening her second private dining venue, Chapter 2 – a follow-up to Table 47, which regularly has a four-month waiting time for bookings. Neither is a traditional restaurant for walk-in customers: instead, they offer pre-booked dining for parties of various sizes, with bespoke or tasting menus and open-kitchen cooking as […]
