Highly rated restaurants Silver Birch in Chiswick and Somssi in Mayfair were shuttered permanently this week, while Honey & Smoke grill house in Great Portland Street and Milk Beach in Queen’s Park have closed for conversion into wine bars, as hospitality owners grapple with market place challenges. The Silver Birch ran for five years and […]
Two new handroll sushi bars are about to launch in London’s West End, offering a different twist on Japanese dining. Temaki opens next week in Maddox Street, Mayfair after a five-year run in Brixton Market that ended last summer. Billed when it opened as London’s first handroll specialist, it won high ratings in the Harden’s […]
The Gladwin brothers will next week open their first country pub, the Black Horse at Amberley in West Sussex – close to Nutbourne, the family estate and vineyard where they grew up. Richard, Oliver and Gregory have launched five rustic farm-to-fork venues in London under their ‘Local and Wild’ brand, beginning in 2012 with the […]
Veeraswamy, Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant, celebrated its centenary on Monday at a dinner that opened with a Mulligatawny soup which featured on its first menu, served by waiting staff in newly tailored uniforms copied from the 1926 originals (pictured). The future of the Regent Street institution remains in doubt following landlord the Crown Estate’s decision […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 15th March 2026 Daily Telegraph Simpson’s in the Strand William Sitwell hustled a table for the first night of full trading at “the hottest ticket in London”, earning bragging rights as the first national critic into print on restaurateur […]
The Cotswolds set (and visitors in search of the honey-coloured stone idyll) have another lovingly restored old pub to choose from with the reopening of the Wild Duck at Ewen, near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, after a seven-year closure. The 16th-century Grade II listed inn has been glossily refurbed by Sam and Georgie Pearman, the couple […]
The Aegean too hot in August these days? Never mind: a trio of smart new tavernas in central London will make it easier than ever for stay-at-homes to enjoy a taste of Greece this summer. First to launch this week was Maza in Bruton Place, off Berkeley Square, from Christina Mouratoglou and Adrien Carre, the […]
Luke Selby this week hosted the first in a series of intimate ‘chef’s table’ dinners that will preview dishes planned for his new restaurant that launches at Palé Hall near Bala in north Wales later this year. Luke joined the luxury hotel on the edge of Snowdonia as chef partner in February after serving as […]
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 […]
