The City of London’s notorious appetite for red meat shows no sign of abating, with the opening of two new steakhouses within 10 minutes’ walk of each other this week. The Four Seasons hotel at Tower Bridge has replaced La Dame de Pic, its highly rated French restaurant from visiting star chef Anne-Sophie Pic, with […]
The prolific Public House Group opened its latest venue this week – CeCe’s in Notting Hill, billed as a classic Italian restaurant with “a hint of Hollywood”. Taking over the former site of celeb hangout Casa Cruz in Clarendon Road, the launch has been kept quiet until this week. It follows hot on the heels of […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 1st March 2026 The Guardian Pavyllon, Mayfair Grace Dent, a proud member of the early-rising “5am Club”, followed a heavily hyped trend to sample an upmarket power breakfast at the Four Seasons hotel on Park Lane, suggesting: “Perhaps now […]
An Italian restaurant called Cent Anni is launching in St John’s Wood next week on the prominent site occupied by Café Med for the past 25 years. A Grade II-listed late-Victorian building – originally The Blenheim hotel – it has a large outside dining terrace and, unusually for a restaurant so close to central London, off-street […]
Highly regarded Pembrokeshire smallholding restaurant Paternoster Farm will this summer transfer its operations to a remote waterside pub on the western tip of Wales. The outfit was launched by former divorce lawyer Michelle Evans and her husband Leum during the Covid pandemic as a farm shop selling home-reared meat and pastries from their milking parlour […]
Tom Sellers of London’s Restaurant Story is launching an outpost in Cornwall this summer, taking over the venue near St Ives occupied until last year by Adam Handling’s Ugly Butterfly. Named Mor, Cornish for ‘sea’, the new restaurant promises a seasonal menu that exploits the region’s best products, including dayboat fish and grass-fed Cornish beef. […]
Long-running Italian restaurant Sale e Pepe is launching its second venue next week – a seafood specialist at The Langham hotel in Portland Place, just off Oxford Circus. Sale e Pepe Mare has taken over the hotel’s main restaurant space, which operated as Roux at the Landau until 2023; that was followed by a French restaurant […]
The highly anticipated reopening of Simpson’s-in-the-Strand under Jeremy King begins to take shape next week with the soft launch of its signature restaurant, the Grand Divan – famous for roast beef carved tableside from silver trolleys. Founded in 1828, Simpson’s became famous as the most quintessentially English of the capital’s grand dining establishments, but its closure […]
Diners disappointed at the recent news that Nest restaurant is to close after nine years will be cheered to learn that its owners plan to relaunch the Shoreditch venue as a ‘British bistro’ called Tavern. It will offer what they describe as “generous, nostalgic British cooking designed for more informal dining”, with sharing plates accompanied […]
High-profile Midlands chef Glynn Purnell has announced the closure of his pub The Mount in Henley-in-Arden after a turbulent two years in which he also closed his flagship restaurant, Purnells in Birmingham. Glynn opened The Mount near Stratford with Luke and Tania Fryer in 2022, and will run its final service on Sunday 15 March […]
