A new neighbourhood independent restaurant called Vera opened in Glasgow’s Southside this week, serving Mediterranean-influenced modern cooking from chef Zak Young, who has worked in two of the city’s most celebrated kitchens, Cail Bruich and Unalome. Vera, from the Latin for ‘true’, is on Nithsdale Road near Strathbungo, and pitches itself as “a relaxed place […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 6th September 2026 The Guardian Kintsu, Colchester Grace Dent sang the praises of “a small regional indie doing its very best in rather weird times”: chef Paul Wendholt’s ambitious set menu outfit (eight courses plus extras for £90) closed […]
Tom Kerridge has reshuffled his central London offer at the grand Corinthia Hotel in Northumberland Avenue off Trafalgar Square, with the opening tomorrow of a new bar called Georgie’s. It is named after the chef’s beloved boxer dog, whose paw print was preserved in cement during building at his Marlow flagship the Hand and Flowers […]
Chef Elliott Kaye will next week launch Marrion’s Bar in Hackney, his follow-up to Norman’s Cafe in Archway, which he ran for five years with Richie Hayes until it closed last summer. The new venue on Morning Lane is Elliott’s first solo project, and he says: “I wanted Marrion’s to be somewhere I’d actually want […]
A new pub opens two minutes’ walk from Bank station in the City next week offering £6 pints of Guinness and lobsters fresh from the display tank. The Albatross has taken an ex-Brown’s – originally the Commonwealth Bank of Australia – on Old Jewry, and is the first pub from Wild Group founders George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya […]
Former Raby Hunt chef James Close opens a purpose-built restaurant called Atlas at Rockliffe Hall near Darlington next week, with the declared ambition to establish it as “one of the world’s best restaurants“. Atlas is one of six dining and bar options at Rockliffe Hall, a luxury resort hotel which has undergone a multi-million-pound transformation […]
The team behind west London restaurant Dorian is to open a new Japanese venture near Notting Hill Gate station next week that combines two separate hit residencies, Urchin and Robin’s Ramen. Nakimushi – which means ‘cry-baby’ in Japanese – has taken over a three-storey townhouse in Kensington Mall, providing a permanent home for two residencies that made […]
The Sustainable Restaurant Association explores how consciously choosing ‘side stream’ foods as ingredients can prevent waste throughout the food system. Our food system is the biggest contributor to many of our planet’s most urgent issues, including land use change, pollution, biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. As the EAT-Lancet Commission’s work shows, no single solution […]
The Gold Service Scholarship awards for 2027 will be launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in London next week. Harden’s hears about it from trustee and lead judge Alex Fasoli MCA – Master of Culinary Arts – who has been involved in service at the highest levels for more than 25 years, initially at The […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 31st August 2026 Financial Times Saarawos, Elephant and Castle Jay Rayner was impressed by the Thai cooking he encountered in the upstairs back room at an old boozer called The Albert Arms, where young ex-Fallow chef Ice Pongnat Ramanat […]
