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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant reviewers were writing about in the week up to 18th January 2026 The Guardian Corenucopia, Chelsea The first critic into print on Clare Smyth’s snazzy bistro, Grace Dent‘s appreciation of the Northern Ireland-born chef’s upmarket take on comfort food (complete with a potato menu and a Hibernian tiramisu […]
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons has revealed Raymond Blanc’s successor with the appointment of multi-starred French chef Arnaud Donckele as its new culinary director. Le Manoir is currently closed for 18 months of renovation, so diners will have to wait until summer 2027 to taste any differences. Arnaud, 48, already runs two of France’s most highly […]
Seasonal British restaurant Nest in Shoreditch is to close down after nine years in the face of an unsustainable financial climate, running its final service on Saturday 28 March. Serving a set menu based around a single theme, Nest achieved its best-ever rating in the new 2026 Harden’s guide, earning a maximum score of 5/5 […]
Legendary baker Richard Hart is returning to his native London next week to open the new Claridge’s Bakery, behind the Mayfair hotel in Brook’s Mews. Now based in Mexico City, Richard began his career as a chef before discovering the allure of sourdough baking and rising to become head baker at Tartine in San Francisco […]
DakaDaka, an ambitious Georgian restaurant from a newly formed hospitality outfit, opens tomorrow in Mayfair’s Heddon Street foodie enclave, tucked away off Regent Street. Taking over the site formerly occupied by hit restaurants Manteca and Fallow, DakaDaka is the debut London project from Berkeley Square Hospitality, headed by Georgians Giorgi Mindiashvili and chef patron Mitz […]
Weeks after closing down at the end of last year, highly rated Northumbrian restaurant Hjem is making a comeback with a six-month residency at the South Causey Inn, starting on February 4. The hotel residency, midway between Newcastle and Durham near Stanley, will fill the gap between the closure of Hjem and the opening later […]
Chef Dara Klein launches her first standalone venue this week, opening Tiella Trattoria & Bar in a traditional mid-Victorian pub near Columbia Road flower market in east London – a follow-up to her extended residency at the Compton Arms in Islington, where Dara’s rustic Italian cooking earned widespread acclaim. She has teamed up for the new […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 11th January 2026 The Guardian Martino’s, Chelsea Grace Dent hailed the “beautiful bedlam” of restaurateur Martin (‘The Dover’) Kuczmarski’s “glitzy, sexy, mock-Italian trattoria” in Sloane Square – a place so superbly designed and operated, at once so cool and so laidback, […]
A Worthing restaurant that sources all its food and drink from the British Isles has reopened in smart new premises following a successful crowdfunding campaign. Tern opened in 2023 in the nest space of Perch on the Pier, and founders Johnny Stanford and Sophie Harvey decided to turn it into something “truly special” with the […]
A couple facing the loss of their three North London cafes are taking legal action to challenge the City of London Corporation’s (CLC) decision to transfer the venues to the Daisy Green group. Lawyers for Patrick Matthews and Emma Fernandez wrote to the CLC on Thursday to demand that it “brings some light” to how […]
