Chef-patron Luke French of restaurant Joro in Sheffield has drawn on his personal experience of supported housing to highlight the work of StreetSmart, which launches its annual hospitality fundraising drive on Sunday. Participating restaurants add a £1 voluntary donation per table to guests’ bills until the end of the year, in a campaign that has […]
Fable restaurant at the Crazy Bear hotel in Beaconsfield has closed down just a week after opening as the hotel entered administration this week for the second time in two years. The business, which includes a sibling hotel in Stadhampton, was swiftly snapped up by the Brakspear pub group, which is expected to reopen the […]
Celebrated chef Florence Knight’s hotly anticipated restaurant Lunette opens next week at St Clement, Nick Jones’s spanking new luxury hotel overlooking the River Thames at Temple. The 11th-floor venue is the hotel’s statement restaurant, and follows almost five months after the launch of the less gastronomically ambitious Café Clement on the ground floor. Florence made […]
Norwich chef Liam Nichols has launched his debut restaurant, promising fun as well as gastronomic quality at Northwic in the historic city centre. The restaurant is tightly focused around an 18-seat counter and open kitchen in what used to be Biddy’s Tea Room on Lower Goat Lane, a pedestrianised medieval street of independent businesses. Liam […]
Self-taught chef Mike Bartley has finally opened his long-planned tasting-menu restaurant Jörd in his home town of Bishop Auckland, having secured a £150,000 grant through a government-funded scheme to bring derelict property back into use. Mike (in photograph with Councillor Karen Allison) has taken over a building previously empty for more than two years – one […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th October 2026 The Guardian Outlier, Glasgow Grace Dent followed up a tip from a stranger to have brunch at a four-year-old art space with a kitchen whose “carefully orchestrated can’t-be-arsedness is really quite magical [and] intensely likable”. She was […]
Former Kiln head chef Karla Knowles is opening two Thai restaurants in quick succession, starting next week with Pam, by Smithfield Market in Charterhouse Street. Her first standalone restaurant, Pam is pitched as a “playful and creative” take on Thai cuisine, making use of seasonal British produce in a venue that will also host art […]
Beaconsfield boutique hotel Crazy Bear has opened a new British-focused restaurant called Fable from chef Pete Gray, formerly of Heston Blumenthal’s Hind’s Head in Bray. Fable takes the place of BEAR by Carlo Scotto, a radical 14-seater chef’s table concept that survived only five months from its launch last November. The new restaurant signals a […]
An upmarket steakhouse called Lucky Grill opens this week from the Wild Group in Kensington, replacing Greek restaurant Krokodilos that lasted just over a year at the site in Lancer Square, off Church Street. The move follows a similar switch last year by Wild Group when Fantomas in King’s Road, Chelsea, was replaced by the […]
Former Fat Duck chef Nick Rudge this week opened his second restaurant, called The Nest, in the historic town of Conwy on the north Wales coast. It follows The Jackdaw, whose ambitious tasting menu is described in the 2026 Harden’s guide as “Welsh cuisine at its best“. Nick, who was born across the river in […]
