Graeme Cheevers of Glasgow’s highly rated Unalome this week launched his second restaurant – Loma, at Cameron House resort hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond. The move marks Graeme’s return to a venue he knows well from his stint as head chef when the restaurant was run by Martin Wishart more than 10 years […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th May 2025 London Standard Town, Covent Garden David Ellis was first critic into Town, Stevie Parle’s expensively put-together new restaurant in Covent Garden – and gave his thumbs-up to “a Wolseley, reimagined for the modern age”. “True, no […]
Two new Parisian-inspired restaurants opened in London this week, confirming that our longest-lasting gastronomic love affair is also this year’s hottest hospitality trend. First out of the blocks on Tuesday was 74 Duke in Mayfair, from the team behind Supernova, with a brasserie menu including the likes of Terrine de foie gras à la Chartreuse; […]
The 14th-century Three Tuns pub on Henley’s Market Place is to reopen next week – under two friends who first joked about taking it over 25 years ago. The new landlords are Barry Wagner – owner of Gabriel Machin, the butchers next door – and Nigel Sutcliffe, his long-time customer who also owns The Oarsman in […]
Former Pied à Terre head chef Asimakis Chaniotis has opened his first solo London restaurant – Myrtos, on the former site of Aubaine in Old Brompton Road, South Kensington. The latest upmarket Greek restaurant to open in London, Myrtos is named after a famous white marble beach on the island of Kefalonia, where Asimakis passed his […]
The owners of Palé Hall luxury hotel on the edge of Snowdonia national park have opened a gastropub with rooms at the end of their drive, following a £1 million makeover of a village inn dating back to 1695. The Bryntirion Inn, near Bala in north Wales, is decorated throughout with classic car and motorsport […]
Edinburgh chef Scott Smith (right in photo) is helping launch a new pub in Stockbridge next week – The Captain Darling – having made the difficult decision to close his highly rated fine-dining restaurant Fhior. Named after a character in classic TV comedy series Blackadder, the new pub is from John Howard (left)‘s Òir Group, […]
Our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18th May 2025 London Standard Josephine, Marylebone The first reviews have been published for Claude Bosi’s highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s smash hit Josephine Bouchon – and so far, it’s a split decision. David Ellis was unconvinced by […]
Leading Indian chef Vivek Singh opens his first restaurant in northern England next week – a branch of his Cinnamon Kitchen at the Queens Hotel in Leeds city centre. Facing Leeds station, the new venture takes its inspiration from the Himsagar Express, a weekly rail service that crosses India from north to south, a distance […]
Chef Chet Sharma has designed a new menu of snacks and small plates for the plush Artesian cocktail bar at the The Langham hotel in Portland Place, which will be unveiled next week. Chet, whose hit Mayfair restaurant BiBi offers what the 2025 Harden’s guide describes as ‘possibly the best sophisticated Indian dining in town‘, […]
