The team behind Wild Tavern in Chelsea and Wild in Notting Hill have opened their first Japanese venture – Wild Izakaya on Old Jewry Street in the City, fronted by former Koyn and Nobu head chef Satoru Hashimoto. The izakaya has taken over the former Browns premises opposite Goodman, the steak house opened 16 years ago […]
Ed and Ollie Templeton, the brothers behind influential chef residency showcase Carousel in Fitzrovia, will next week open an ambitious Mexican seafood restaurant on the same site. Cometa – pitched as a “contemporary take on Mexican seafood, seen through a distinctly British lens” – is taking over the space currently occupied by the Carousel wine bar. Ed […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 8th February 2026 The Times & Sunday Times Rules, Covent Garden The Sunday Times unveiled Camilla Long, one of its heavyweight columnists, as its new restaurant critic this week – dispatching her for her first review, as custom apparently […]
A new cafe opens off Rye Lane in Peckham next week with a focus on prime Welsh ingredients. Bara is from a duo of ‘chefs and bread lovers’, Zoë Heimann and Cecily Dalladay – the latter a former quarterfinalist in MasterChef: The Professionals. They say: “Bara is the Welsh word for bread, a simple, universal food that […]
Club Gascon in Smithfield, one of the most influential restaurants in London of the last quarter century, is to shut up shop at the end of March. Chef-patron Pascal Aussignac and his business partner Vincent Labeyrie announced the closure “with both gratitude and a heavy heart” in an email to regulars this week. They said: […]
Birmingham-Sicilian chef Angelina Adamo launches her first bricks-and-mortar restaurant tomorrow (Saturday 7 February) – Vieni, in the new Goodsyard development in the city’s Jewellery Quarter. A graduate of University College Birmingham, Angelina trained at Simpson’s in Edgbaston and runs her own private dining company, Tutto Apposto, which also operates the Circle Lounge in the Birmingham Hippodrome. […]
Brighton’s Black Rock restaurant group has this week opened its first pub – the Crazy Goose, on the original site of the Coal Shed in Boyce’s Street, one block back from the seafront in the town centre. The pub features a bar on the ground floor and a first-floor dining room called The Blue Room, with […]
Leeds chef Liz Cottam is closing her gastrobar Emba at the end of February, in the face of “crushing costs” that have brought her a trio of closures in the past 18 months. She launched the Scandi-style Emba less than a year ago on the back of a successful £65,000 crowdfunding campaign, taking over the […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 1st February 2026 The Guardian Guinness Open Gate Brewery, Covent Garden Grace Dent was both puzzled and “underwhelmed” by a visit to Guinness’s new “multi-multi-million-pound” visitor centre – complete with a craft brewery, a gift shop, a pie stall from […]
A new boutique hotel called the Newman with an all-day brasserie serving North European-inspired comfort food opens this Sunday 1 February, just north of Oxford Street in Fitzrovia. Brasserie Angelica has its own bar and a terrace for outdoor eating in warmer weather, with the added attraction of a sandwich trolley at lunchtime. The kitchen […]
