Highly rated Bath restaurant the Olive Tree has reduced its prices to attract more covers, as hospitality venues grapple with continuing tight market conditions. Executive head chef Chris Cleghorn’s new à la carte menu offers a choice of two dishes at each of its three courses for £95, with snacks, bread and sweet treats thrown […]
Birmingham-based chef Aktar Islam, whose stellar flagship Opheem has taken Indian cuisine to new heights in recent years, opens his first London venue today (May 1) – with another restaurant following later this month in Bristol. Oudh 1722, his London debut, has taken over the former site of Lupins in a listed Victorian building on the […]
Longstanding Brighton restaurant Gingerman heads a list of notable restaurants around the country that have announced their closure this week – most of them citing financial headwinds for the decision. The other venues which have called time include rooftop restaurant Climat in Manchester, ultra-local Chapters in Hay-on-Wye, fried chicken specialist Mollis in Nottingham and 104 in […]
A successful London supper club is to open its first permanent venue next week with the May 6 launch of All Roads in Brixton. Chefs Malika Green and Paschelle Brown have tested All Roads in a series of sold-out evenings over the past three years, assembling a distinctive menu which draws on their Caribbean heritage and British, European and […]
A restaurant which mixes fast-food classics with high-end luxury ingredients opened this week within the Lowndes hotel in Belgravia. Billed as a ‘Bistrot Américain’, Avi is from the team behind The Prince Arthur nearby, a traditional pub now serving upmarket Basque seafood. Chef Joshua Conte, a former soldier who has worked at Heston Blumenthal’s pub […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 26th April 2026 The Guardian Impala, Soho Grace Dent was left “punch-drunk with memories” after a meal at this new venue from the all-conquering Super 8 group, where chef Meedu Saad has conjured up a “hazy blend of styles, […]
Restaurants the length and breadth of Britain raised £1.17 million last winter to help tackle homelessness through inviting diners to add a voluntary £1 per table to their bill. With rough sleeping reaching its highest recorded level – 4,793 people were recorded sleeping rough on a single night in 2025 – more than 650 restaurants joined the […]
Nottingham chef-entrepreneur Nichola Thompson is opening her second private dining venue, Chapter 2 – a follow-up to Table 47, which regularly has a four-month waiting time for bookings. Neither is a traditional restaurant for walk-in customers: instead, they offer pre-booked dining for parties of various sizes, with bespoke or tasting menus and open-kitchen cooking as […]
The team behind Shoreditch restaurant Nest will relaunch it next week as a ‘British bistro’ called Tavern, while Mayfair restaurateur Samyukta Nair has revived her Thai restaurant Koyn under the name Miko Mei Fair – as hospitality owners shuffle their packs in response to customer demand. Nest established the reputation of chef Johnnie Crowe with his […]
The duo behind British-Afghan barbecue Cue Point this week opened their first permanent site – in North Kensington, close to the project’s origins as a pop-in west London 10 years ago. Founders Joshua Moroney and Mursal Saiq have teamed up with the Garden Bar pub near Latimer Road tube station to create The Garden Bar Grill and […]
