Handmade pasta specialist Padella will next week open its first West End branch – and third overall – in Soho, almost exactly 10 years after founders Jordan Frieda and Tim Siadatan (pictured) unveiled the original venue in Borough Market. The pair say, “We have always felt the energy of Soho was a perfect fit for Padella, and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 5th April 2026 London Standard Teal, Hackney David Ellis marvelled at the “astonishingly, masterfully good” debut restaurant from high-profile chef Sally Abé, finally free to do her own thing as boss after head chef stints at the Harwood Arms, […]
Malaysian-Chinese comedian Nigel Ng – better known as Uncle Roger – is to launch his first London restaurant over the Easter weekend: Kawan by Uncle Roger, in Chinatown. He has joined forces with restaurateur Keng Yew (of YiQi and The Eight) and former Hakkasan chef Daren Liew for Kawan (meaning ‘mate’ or ‘friend’ in Malay), which opens […]
The dust had barely settled following the closure of well regarded Papi in London Fields when a new restaurant called Auguste opened in the premises this week – and the Papi team revealed their plan to launch a ‘public house dining room’ called The Golden Tooth near Newington Green later this month. Auguste takes its name […]
Gordon Ramsay launches his TV-tie-in restaurant brand Hell’s Kitchen in London this week, closely followed by a high-rise City branch of Bread Street Kitchen which will be the 100th restaurant in his global empire. Originally a tough area of New York, Hell’s Kitchen lent its name to the chef’s reality TV cooking show first aired […]
Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone has relaunched one of his Six by Nico venues in Manchester as Lennox, which he describes as his “most personal restaurant project to date“. The prolific Glasgow-based chef/restaurateur has established himself on the national stage with 15 Six by Nico restaurants opening in the past decade, offering ‘affordable fine dining’ in […]
MEATliquor and Patty & Bun – two of the country’s most prominent ‘dirty burger’ groups – have both shrunk dramatically following multiple closures this week after 15 years of trading. MEATliquor shuttered branches in Islington, Clapham Junction, Queensway and in Brighton, as well as its pub the Dartford Arms in Forest Hill. Having pulled out of Leeds […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 29th March 2026 Financial Times Aces Foodcraft, Fitzrovia Jay Rayner hailed “one of the most impressive openings in a long while” at this East/West hybrid from Romanian-born chef Alex Craciun, last seen in London 10 years ago as head […]
Pillar Hall, the vast new three-part restaurant and entertainment complex from Des Gunewardena’s D3 Collective, opens next week as the six-year, £1.4 billion revamp of West London’s Olympia nears completion. The centrepiece is Idalia, a 300-seater all-day modern British restaurant inspired by country house style, led by executive chef Samantha Williams and pastry chef Lorena […]
A new family-run venue is opening in Padstow – but this time it is not from the Rick Stein clan of Seafood Restaurant fame, but from locally-born chef Thomas Hine, who launches his first cafe and restaurant today, PL28 Cafe. PL28, on Broad Street, will operate as a daytime cafe serving breakfast and lunch before switching […]
