Jamie Oliver this week relaunched his Jamie’s Italian brand in the UK with a new opening in London’s West End – almost seven years after the original brand collapsed into liquidation with the loss of 22 venues and more than 1,000 jobs. The new branch can accommodate 140 guests across three storeys in Irving Street, off […]
Heston Blumenthal is to shut down his London restaurant Dinner by Heston at the end of next January, on the 16th anniversary of its launch. Describing the closure as “sad and bittersweet“, he said the project had “run its natural course“. Set in the Mandarin Oriental hotel overlooking Hyde Park, Dinner was Heston’s follow-up to the […]
Chef Conor Gadd, co-owner of Italian neighbourhood trattoria Trullo in Islington, has opened his first solo venture, taking over the venue previously occupied by Petersham Nurseries in Covent Garden’s Floral Court. Burro (meaning ‘butter’) is billed as a “part Irish country house kitchen, part Italian fifties bistro“, serving “warm, evocative and creative food” that expresses […]
Scottish-based craft beer giant Brewdog was sold out of administration this week with the loss of 484 jobs and the closure of 38 UK bars. About 220,000 “equity punks” – small investors – stand to lose £75million between them. The purchaser, US-based Tilray Brands, was the first cannabis company to trade publicly on a major US stock […]
One of London’s ultra-high-end sushi specialists has changed its leadership, with Taku in Albemarle Street, Mayfair rebranding as Sushi Amamato under the direction of a sushi master based in Taiwan. The 16-seat counter was rated number 5 in last year’s Harden’s 100 of the UK’s best restaurants under chef Takuya Watanabe, who is best known […]
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 […]
