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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 1st September 2025 The Guardian Inis, Hackney Wick Grace Dent found a “little patch of sanity” amid the gentrification of the 2012 Olympic zone, in a new all-day venture by the canal that is “Irish in spirit” – in its […]
Fulham Football Club have signed three more top chefs to boost the match-day culinary offering at Craven Cottage – although team manager Marco Silva would doubtless prefer three new players for his football squad. The latest additions to the club’s high-powered line-up of chefs are Sally Abe, Judy Joo and Ben Murphy, who have joined […]
Leading Spanish chef Nieves Barragán this week opened Legado in Shoreditch – her highly anticipated follow-up to Sabor in Mayfair. Expectations are high for the new venture: Sabor, which opened in 2018, has registered extraordinary scores of 5-5-5 in the annual Harden’s guide – the highest possible ratings for food, service and ambience – for three consecutive years. […]
The Bridge Arms near Canterbury has relaunched under new ownership with a more casual direction as a village pub, after four years under Daniel and Natasha Smith, the chef couple who run the nearby Fordwich Arms. The couple have passed the lease on to their friend Elliot Hewitt, a former manager at the Fordwich who […]
Renowned Yorkshire chef Tommy Banks opens his latest venture today (29 August) – the General Tarleton, a historic former coaching inn at Ferrensby, near Knaresborough, that has been closed since the Covid epidemic five years ago. The reopening is the first project from Jeopardy Hospitality, a company established to rescue pubs across Yorkshire from closure that […]
Claude Bosi’s flagship restaurant Bibendum at landmark Michelin House in Brompton Cross has closed down suddenly following a breakdown in relations between the chef and the owners of the building, the Hamlyn and Conran families. The restaurant served its final meals on Sunday (25 August), while the downstairs Oyster Bar & Seafood Restaurant is to […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 24th August 2025 The Guardian Bellota, Bury St Edmunds Grace Dent hailed a 20-seat counter venue “tucked away in a quaint West Suffolk market town” and serving a set menu from two “relatively unknown chefs”, married couple Ruben Aquilar Bel and […]
Adam Simmonds (pictured), Nuno Mendes and Dom Taylor are among the high-profile chefs to lose out as a batch of London restaurants reshuffled their options this week. The Megaro Hotel near King’s Cross announced the immediate closure of Voyage with Adam Simmonds, the Scandinavian-inspired restaurant that opened in January to mixed reviews from the critics […]
Highly rated northwest-based chef Andrew Sheridan is to open a new all-day restaurant in Chester – the city where he kicked off his career. Andrew has taken over the former Da Noi restaurant on Bridge Street and will relaunch it next month as Noted. Best known for his Liverpool flagship Restaurant 8 by Andrew Sheridan, the […]
The vaunted Chancery Rosewood hotel in the former US Embassy in Mayfair is now on a soft opening ahead of its formal launch on September 1st – without the promised revival of Richard Caring’s flagship restaurant Le Caprice. Following a seven-year conversion that reputedly cost £1 billion, the 144-suite hotel has unveiled its initial eating […]
