Dishoom is to open its largest branch yet next week on the edge of Borough Market, having taken over two storeys in the west wing of the Hop Exchange, an extravagant Victorian edifice built as a hub for the brewing industry. Open for breakfast from 8am during the week (9am art weekends) until late, the […]
Chef Andrew Sheridan opens his latest venue today – a New York-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar in Liverpool’s Ropewalks area named Manhattan-style after the corner it sits on, Seel & Slater. The launch follows an astonishingly quick transformation of Gary Usher’s Wreck Bistro, which served its final meals last Sunday, having been acquired by Andrew’s Open […]
Actor Daniel Craig has teamed up with a pair of hospitality heavyweights, Soho House founder Nick Jones (left) and Flat Iron founder Charlie Carroll (right), to take over a pub called The Horseshoe in Clerkenwell. Best-known for his role as James Bond in five films, the actor has beer in his veins: “I grew up […]
Important updates are released this week to the world’s leading sustainability assessment for the hospitality sector, the Food Made Good Standard London, 5th October 2026: The Sustainable Restaurant Association (The SRA) is delighted to announce the launch of a new edition of the Food Made Good Standard, its flagship sustainability certification for hospitality. The new edition […]
Jeremy Lee, chef-patron of Quo Vadis in Soho, has published a wonderful new book called Kitchening, in which he interweaves 150 of his favourite recipes with anecdotes and reminiscences of his life – mostly in the kitchen. Jeremy kindly agreed to a grilling from Harden’s, responding in his trademark inimitable style. HARDEN’S: In Kitchening, you describe […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 4th October 2026 The Guardian Dante Mayfair, Claridge’s Grace Dent managed to find nice things to say about the New York import permanently installed in the main restaurant space at this grand hotel, going against the flow of reviewers who […]
The team behind the much-praised Silver Birch in Chiswick, west London, which closed down after five years in March, has reopened the site as an all-day neighbourhood spot called Brook & Green (pictured). Owner Tim Price says the new project, which draws on Mediterranean, Asian and British influences, is “built for consistency and repeat use […]
Covent Garden institution Christopher’s (pictured) has closed after 35 years, with Adam Byatt’s Bistro Union, Malaysian specialist Laksamania and Indian restaurant Black Salt in East Sheen also calling time at the end of September. In further closures, recent weeks have seen the company behind Belgravia’s 19 Motcomb Street placed in a creditors’ voluntary liquidation with […]
Gennaro Contaldo, best-known as Jamie Oliver’s mentor, has opened his latest restaurant near Piccadilly Circus – at the mature age of 77. Named Bolo after his signature Bolognese ragu, the 32-seat trattoria in Air Street serves a tight menu that revolves around seven pasta dishes – including the ‘Jamie’ (mezze maniche with sausage, Calabrian chilli bolo & […]
The Hispanophile Hart Brothers have closed their Borough Market grill restaurant Parrillan and will replace it with a Spanish-style neighbourhood bar or ‘cerveceria’ called Los Primos, where guests can enjoy a beer and a bite to eat for less than a tenner. Ice-cold Estrella Galicia will be sold by the caña – a small glass holding […]
