A restaurant on a remote Welsh eco retreat is opening an outpost in the heart of the Big Smoke next week. Bert’s has taken over part of the well-known Brackenbury Wine Rooms in Hammersmith, which closed down 18 months ago, and will be an all-day small-plates spot featuring produce from Wales. Founder Ali Paice (pictured) and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18th October 2026 Financial Times Miokuru Handroll Bar, Soho Jay Rayner dropped into one of the half-dozen handroll bars that have opened within a couple of hundred metres of Piccadilly Circus in recent months, where he enjoyed “one of […]
Rules restaurant in Covent Garden has been donated to the National Trust to protect it from the threat of developers – news that was reported this week as far away as the New York Times. Founded by Thomas Rule as an oyster bar in 1798, Rules is widely recognised as the oldest restaurant in Britain – a […]
An ambitious new restaurant called Calluna opened this week at Saltmoore hotel and ‘wellness resort’ near Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast. The restaurant serves a 10-course tasting menu to a maximum of 24 diners each evening, with a focus on hyper-seasonal food from the immediate surroundings and coastline. Dishes from the opening menu include […]
Colourful chef-patron Paul Clerehugh has moved his entire operation to a vacant pub nearby, following a disastrous fire that has closed his well-known music pub The Crooked Billet near Henley on Thames until next autumn at the earliest. The July blaze started in the beer cellar, destroying the kitchen and much of the interior and […]
Senegalese chef Khadim Mane has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £50,000 towards finding permanent premises for his restaurant Little Baobab following the sudden closure in July of its host, the Africa Centre in Southwark. Self-taught chef Khadim has developed Little Baobab over 10 years, initially as a pop-up project then as a stall at […]
Fast-moving chef Abbie Hendren has opened her debut restaurant in Kew, having moved on from Sally Abé’s well-regarded Teal in Hackney, where she was head chef at its launch in March. She has joined Trindle Stores, a two-year-old family-run grocery and coffee shop in Kew Village, the cluster of small shops around Kew Gardens station, […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 11th October 2026 The Guardian Indian Café Racer, Birmingham Grace Dent enjoyed the ride at a cult Brum outfit that started out in the back room of a pub and has now expanded into “fancy new” 65-cover premises. Its […]
An East European chophouse will open next month in the crypt of St George’s Church in Hanover Square, a troubled site in Mayfair that has seen the departure of two previous restaurants in the past year. Elezar, which takes its name from the Hebrew eleazar meaning “God has helped”, is from a trio who share […]
